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Title	:	The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka
Author	:	Clare Wright
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First edition
Pages	:	Pages: 512 pages
Published	:	2013 by Text Publishing Australia
Categories	:	History. Nonfiction. Cultural. Australia. Historical. Feminism. Audiobook. Literature. 21st Century

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The Eureka Stockade. The story is one of Australia’s foundation legends, but until now it has been told as though only half the participants were there.

What if the hot-tempered, free-wheeling gold miners we learnt about in school were actually husbands and fathers, brothers and sons? And what if there were women and children inside the Eureka Stockade, defending their rights while defending themselves against a barrage of bullets?

As Clare Wright reveals, there were thousands of women on the goldfields and many of them were active in pivotal roles. The stories of how they arrived there, why they came and how they sustained themselves make for fascinating reading in their own right. But it is in the rebellion itself that the unbiddable women of Ballarat come into their own.

Groundbreaking, absorbing, crucially important—The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka is the uncut story of the day the Australian people found their voice.

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Original Title:	The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka
ISBN:	1922147370 (ISBN13: 9781922147370)
Edition Language:	English URL http://textpublishing.com.au/books-and-authors/book/the-forgotten-rebels-of-eureka/
Literary Awards:	Prime Minister's
Literary Awards:	Nominee for Australian History (2014), The Stella Prize (2014)

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If youre not Australian, you may not have heard of the Eureka Stockade. It was a significant event in colonial Australias march to democracy and independence, involving the British army and police attacking a stockade created by miners whose grievances included the payment of a compulsory miners licence and the fact that this licence, which they saw as a form of taxation, did not give them the right to vote in the legislature. It has traditionally been framed in masculine terms, but Wright

Clare Wright is a very thorough historian, blending a mass of historical data into a readable, enjoyable narrative. I finished her book knowing a lot more about one of my country's foundation stories than when I started.

Great read. Learnt things about Ballarat and the Eureka Stockade that were never taught at school. Recommend to anyone.

It is to my discredit that I didn't really know the Eureka Story. Guess I missed studying it in my schooling in NSW and Qld. I did know there was some sort of uprising, and somehow had formed the prejudice against the government of the time. Clare Wright's wonderful book does not dispel that prejudice.At the same time she opens up the story by telling it from the female point of view. Here we have the women of the Ballarat goldfields in all their diversity, endurance and (yes) power. The quality

A well told story of a pivotal moment in Australian history.

This book is bold. A bed-time story this aint. Its prose slaps you around the face to make sure you are paying attention. It is assertive and provocative. It sucks you into the time that was, on the Ballarat goldfields of the mid-nineteenth century.The history of Victorias gold rushes and the Eureka Stockade is one of Australias well-worn foundational stories. Each year the story is told in school classrooms throughout Australia and children dutifully do their Gold Rush project with varying

The Eureka Stockade is an interesting point in Australias history and yet one I suspect many people know very little about. Even what we may know is probably skewed. The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka seeks to redress this problem by recognising the part women and children played in the development of Ballarat. Until now it seems to have been pretty much assumed women and families were not thereon the gold fields. Clare Wright has researched extensively and involved ample evidence to prove this was