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Law and Order: Overview

Published Resources

Books

  • Further Papers Relative to the Recent Discovery of Gold in Australia, British Parliamentary Papers, 1855. Details
  • Goodman, David, Gold seeking: Victoria and California in the 1850s, Allen & Unwin, St Leonards, 1994. Details
  • Serle, Geoffrey, The golden age: a history of the colony of Victoria, 1851-1861, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1963. Details

Book Sections

  • Sturma, Michael, 'Policing the Criminal Frontier in Mid-Nineteenth Century Australia, Britain and America', in Finnane, Mark (ed.), Policing in Australia: historical perspectives, NSW University Press, Kensington, 1987. Details
Title
Talk of 'lynch law' to reduce crime on the Victorian diggings
Type
Narration
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Title
Bendigo Goldfields Petition 1853
Type
Image
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Title
Women for a price
Type
Extract
Publisher
Melbourne University Press
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Title
Bushranging Bands on the road to the Diggings
Type
Extract
Date
19-20 May 1852
Publisher
Cassell Australia
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Title
Prisoners
Type
Image
Creator
Andrew Swift
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Title
Sloping to the diggings
Type
Extract
Date
2 December 1851
Publisher
Australian National University
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Title
Escaped convicts
Type
Extract
Date
10 November 1854
Publisher
Australian National University
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