When gold was discovered in Australia in the 1850s, it led to a gold rush. Prospectors came to the country from all over the world, with the largest foreign contingent coming from China.
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The Chinese in Bendigo during the gold rush, La Trobe University
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Hearing the past - Hindsight - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Historians are starting to listen, tuning their ears to the sounds of the past to gain a new understanding of times gone by.
Sound may be irretrievable in itself but references to hearing and listening resonate in many written records and can be highly significant for grasping a sense of how people thought in the past.
Australian historians are making key contributions to the field of sound history, in particular with the work of Professor Shane White and Graham White at Sydney University. They are specialists in African-American history, and together have written an acclaimed book on the sound history of slavery. They recover the sounds of plantation and urban life and document the differing responses from those who heard them.
How sounds are heard is crucial for Professor Mark Smith of the University of South Carolina. He is one of the pioneers in sound history, and has argued for the importance of sound in the thinking of Americans in the years leading up to the Civil War.
Meantime historians have begun to consider how Australia was heard in the past—from early explorers to the lead-up to Federation. Many of the themes from the American research resound here too—the power of silence, the appeal of uniformity, the question of noise—suggesting that sound history is going to be heard loudly in the future.
Guests:
Shane White, Professor of History, University of Sydney
Mark Smith, Professor of History, University of South Carolina
Alan Atkinson, ARC Professorial Fellow, University of New England, Armidale
Diane Collins, Associate Dean, Conservatorium of Music, Sydney
Bruce Johnson, Docent and Visiting Professor , University of Turku , FinlandCameron Fairweather, trumpet
Ingrid Heyn, sound performer
Manolis Mavromakis, reader
Michael Taft, sound performerClass 4/3 S, St Brigid’s Primary School, Mordialloc
Publications:
Title: The Sounds of Slavery
Author: Shane White and Graham White
Publisher: Beacon Press, Boston 2005Title: Listening to Nineteenth Century America
Author: Mark M. Smith
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press, 2001Title: The Commonwealth of Speech
Author: Alan Atkinson
Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne 2002Title: Talking and Listening in the Age of Modernity
Author/editors: Joy Damousi and Desley Deacon
Publisher: ANU Press, Canberra 2007Title: De Anima Book II
Author: Aristotlehttp://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/hearing-the-past/3658514
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Hindsight - 25 September 2011 - Queens of Harlotry: sex, power and moral panic in 19th century Melbourne
In the wake of the Victorian goldrushes in the mid 19th century, the city of Melbourne boomed,and was transformed from a small town into a bustling metropolis, with all the attractions and excesses that a city can offer. The city also, at this time, became the site for a struggle over morality, sex and power. This program explores this moral panic which emerged in 19th century Melbourne through the stories of two well-known women of the period - the ‘entertainer’ known as Lola Montez [Irish born Maria Eliza Gilbert] and the notorious brothel owner Madame Brussels [German born Caroline Hodgson]
During their lives, both of these women challenged the prevailing Victorian orthodoxies around gender and sexuality. And both of their real life stories were richer and more complex than the public personas that each of them has been remembered by.
Guests:
Dr Clare Wright – http://www.clarewright.com.auProfessor Rae Francis, Dean, Faculty of Arts, Monash University
Professor Shurlee Swain, Australian Catholic University
Lenny Robinson
Publications: Title: Selling Sex: A Hidden History of Prostitution
Author: Rae Francis
Publisher: UNSW Press, 2007.Title: ‘Madame Brussels - A Moral Pandemonium’
Author: LM Robinson
Publisher: Arcade Press 2009Title: Negotiating poverty: women and charity in Nineteenth Century Melbourne
Author: Shurlee Swain
Publisher: Women’s History Review, 16(1): 99-112. 2007 -
The Memory Palace Episode 24: The Moon in the Sun
The article began by triumphantly listing a series of stunning astronomical breakthroughs that the famous British astronomer, Sir John Herschel, had apparently made "by means of a telescope of vast dimensions and an entirely new principle." Herschel, the article declared, had established a "new theory of cometary phenomena"; he had discovered planets in other solar systems; and he had "solved or corrected nearly every leading problem of mathematical astronomy." Then, almost as if it were an afterthought, the article revealed Herschel’s final, stunning achievement: he had discovered life on the moon!
From: http://thememorypalace.us/2010/01/episode-24-the-moon-in-the-sun/
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The Memory Palace Episode 24: The Moon in the Sun
The article began by triumphantly listing a series of stunning astronomical breakthroughs that the famous British astronomer, Sir John Herschel, had apparently made "by means of a telescope of vast dimensions and an entirely new principle." Herschel, the article declared, had established a "new theory of cometary phenomena"; he had discovered planets in other solar systems; and he had "solved or corrected nearly every leading problem of mathematical astronomy." Then, almost as if it were an afterthought, the article revealed Herschel’s final, stunning achievement: he had discovered life on the moon!
From: http://thememorypalace.us/2010/01/episode-24-the-moon-in-the-sun/
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The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood
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A 19th-Century Mathematician Finally Proves Himself
Charles Babbage, the man whom many consider to be the father of modern computing, never got to complete any of his life’s work. The Victorian gentleman was a brilliant mathematician, but he wasn’t very good at politics and fundraising, so he never got the financial backing to finish any of his elaborate machine designs. For decades, even his fans weren’t certain whether his computing machines would have worked.
From http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121206408
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