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The Geoff Telfer Library A collection of nearly 500 volumes…
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Melbourne
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15-Jul-2018
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The Geoff Telfer Library A collection of nearly 500 volumes covering the full breadth of Australian History. Subjects include the Voyages of Discovery and the Journals kept on-board those ships, Australia's Convict Beginnings, early European contact and settlement and the impact on the Indigeneous population, much on Captain Cook, William Bligh, the First Fleet, the social and political conditions which lead to Transportation, Botany Bay and Sydney Cove, Convict life, the Convict ships, Female convicts, the role of the clergy and religion, free settlers and trade, Prison reform, Wrecks and Rescues, the early Governors and their legacies, Exploration and expansion of settlements, artistic interpretations of the 'new' land, convict literature, Norfolk Island, Queensland, Western Australia, Van Diemen's Land, bushrangers, the Gold Rush, etc.
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