The booklets are here! The 130 Women booklets with all 130 individual stories have arrived and are available for purchase. Booklets are $25 Gallery Collection or $30 Australian Delivery. Orders can be arranged through email with – Herstories@130women.com.au the requested number of copies, the postal address to mail them to a phone number to arrange […]
Books on the History of the Western Australian Goldfields
Hundreds of books have been written on the Western Australian Goldfields. From reference books to fiction and most of all the stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things in the quest for gold and the search for adventure. There are also many biographies and history books some on the broader subject of the history of the region and others on a specific subject or town. Outback Family History would like to review some of these that you may not have heard of and to tell you where they can be purchased if you would like your own copy. We also have a monthly book giveaway!
Charlie Webb – a good fellows end
11/03/2023 By 2 Comments
The Sun Kalgoorlie, WA 30 July 1916, page 4 MT REMARKABLE: The inability of a party of Perth politicians and pressmen who were motoring in the locality to see any eminence indicating Mt. Marshall recalled a story told by Charlie Webb, late of the Granites, Yundamindera, via Pindinnie. Out near the Granites was an […]
Goldfields Hikes in 1893
11/02/2023 By Leave a Comment
Men were certainly tough in the early days How it was… by Gungare of Mt Lawley Western Mail 16 June 1938, page 11 In November 1893, Hannan’s leases were opening up. My mate and I were working on a shaft 30 feet deep when he called out for me to wind him up as he […]
A Family Affair
17/12/2022 By Leave a Comment
The dire economic situation and lack of marital prospects in Yugoslavia prompted many young women to embrace the uncertainty of an ‘Australian’ husband. Women were usually without means and thus restricted with their choices. Yet even when they had been educated, their families influenced their choice of husband and condemned them to a bush life […]
Goldfields ‘without’ Chrysanthemums – by Catherine Bond
01/10/2022 By Leave a Comment
Goldfields and Chrysanthemums – Notes of travel in Australia and Japan by Catherine Bond I have always loved reading the personal diaries of people who have come to the Goldfields in the early days. It gives you a description of the day-to-day problems that people encounted and their impressions of the place and time. In […]