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S.T. (Samuel Thomas) Gill (1818-1880)
[Port Adelaide, South Australia} [184-?]
watereolour; 20.8 x 33.9 cm
Pictures Collection,
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Some 10 million people emigrated from the British Isles during the nineteenth century, among them 1.6 million free and assisted migrants to Australia. Many of those arriving at Port Adelaide (depicted in S.T. Gill’s watercolour above) would have been participating in E.G. Wakefield’s 'Systematic Colonisation' Scheme, though ultimately that scheme did not achieve the results which Wakefield intended. (See story p. 4 this issue.)

 

June 2003 Volume XIII Number 9

NORMAN McCANN SUMMER SCHOLARS 2003

WAKEFIELD'S THEORY OF 'SYSTEMATIC COLONISATION'

Joanne Archer investigates E.G. Wakefield’s immigration theory, through an array of National Library resources

THE UNACKNOWLEDGED REPUBLIC: CIVIC HUMANISM IN THE 1890s

Sarah Irving investigates 1890s Australian republicanism through the Library’s Collection

THE POTENTIALITIES OF ORAL HISTORY: THE 'SEVEN YEARS ON' PROJECT

Ruth Nicholls discovers that there is more to the Library’s oral history holdings than you may initially think

THE 'CULTURAL CONTEXT OF UNEMPLOYMENT' PROJECT

Barry York describes one of the Library’s pioneering oral history ventures

VALUING OUR SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE

Diana Giese visits the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre at the University of Melbourne

FRIENDS

A regular news page about the activities of the Friends of the National Library of Australia

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