We are the rebels : the women and men who made Eureka

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The work We are the rebels : the women and men who made Eureka represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in City of Belmont - Ruth Faulkner Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

We are the rebels : the women and men who made Eureka

Title remainder

the women and men who made Eureka

Statement of responsibility

Clare Wright

Title variation

Women and men who made Eureka

Creator

• Wright, Clare Alice

Contributor

• Wright, Clare Alice

Author

• Wright, Clare Alice

Subject

• Ballarat (Vic.) -- History -- 1851-1901 -- Juvenile literature
• Civil disobedience -- Australia -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature
• Eureka Stockade (Ballarat, Vic.) -- History -- 1851-1891 -- Juvenile literature
• Eureka Stockade, Ballarat, Vic., 1854 -- Juvenile literature
• Gold miners -- Victoria | Ballarat -- History -- Juvenile literature
• History
• Australia
• Victoria -- Ballarat
• Women -- Australia -- History -- 19th century -- Juvenile literature
• Riots -- Victoria | Ballarat -- History -- Juvenile literature
• Australian

Genre

• Juvenile literature
• History

Language

eng

Summary

"When I was at school, the story of the Eureka Stockade went like this: a bunch of miners in blue shirts fought a bunch of soldiers in red coats because of unfair taxes. Blood stained the wattle, men got the vote and out of all this democracy was born. They were all men, of course. That went without saying.' But they weren't all men. There was . . . Poet ELLEN YOUNG, stirring up the miners with her letters to he paper; Newspaper editor CLARA DUVAL SEEKAMP, publishing them; Actor SARAH HANMER, raising money for the cause; Teacher ANASTASIA HAYES and the other women who sewed the Eureka flag . . . not to mention the unknown woman who was killed in the fighting, then completely forgotten for 150 years. This is their story, and the story of the thousands of men, women and children who risked everything to travel to the goldfields. They were the rebels. And, as historian Clare Wright shows in electrifying detail, their story is our story too."--Back cover

Awards note

The Children's Book Council of Australia - Short-listed Book, 2016.

Dewey number

994.57031

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Intended audience

For secondary school age

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adolescent