An eyewitness account of the Eureka Stockade as told by Italian patriot, Raffaello Carboni. The book was written one year after the Stockade took place. The Eureka Stockade took place in Ballarat in 1854 and Carboni was a prominent leader of the diggers. He was tried for high treason, but acquitted by a Melbourne jury.History of Ballarat. Autobiographical interest - Carboni.Book; 181 pages. Front cover: white background; artistic impression of Eureka Stockade; black, blue and red lettering; authors' names and title.In green ink: various page numbers and the name "J. Chisholm".btlc, ballarat trades hall, ballarat trades and labour council, carboni, raffaello, lalor, peter, eureka stockade, mining licences - ballarat, hayes, timothy, southern cross flag, gold mining - ballarat, eureka hotel, scobie, james, ballarat reform league, monster meeting - ballarat, humffray, john

This collection of approximately 20 letters between Melbourne men Ben Morris and Harry Bruin, covering a period of several months in 1919, consists of original letters handwritten by Morris and carbon copies of Bruin’s replies. Love letters between men from this period are extremely rare in an Australian context, and globally. They were seized by police from Bruin’s home in Harcourt Street, Auburn in October 1919. The police were investigating a report that Bruin and Morris were conducting an intimate affair. The relationship came to light when the mother of one of Morris’ friends, having failed in her attempt to blackmail Bruin, went to the police. Blackmail was an ever-present danger to homosexual men at that time. Homosexual sex was against the law and even gossip alone could ruin reputations, careers and social standing. In refusing the demands of his attempted blackmailer, Bruin took an enormous risk. However, Morris and Bruin were lucky that their letters contained no descriptions of sex acts. It was not illegal to express love for a person of the same sex and when the matter came before the court, the police had no choice but to let the matter drop without laying charges. Letters like these are rare as potentially incriminating correspondence between men was usually destroyed by the writers or the recipients, to prevent it falling into the hands of the authorities, blackmailers, or disapproving third parties. These letters survived only because they were seized by the authorities for the purpose of prosecution. Morris and Bruin’s letters are also important because, together with the statements taken from the two men and others involved in the case by police prosecutors, they provide insight into the development of the liaison over an extended period. The emotional letters provide rare evidence of a deep romantic affection between two men in their own words. Quoted from "A History of LGBTIQ+ Victoria in 100 Places and Objects" by Graham Willett, Angela Bailey, Timothy W. Jones and Sarah Rood.

A file previously held in the collection of the Supreme Court of Victoria and now in Public Record Office Victoria contains records of the annulment of the marriage of Florence Cox in 1919. As the earliest known record of a person with intersex variations in Victorian history, Cox’s story – and this record – are of unique historical significance to the LGBTIQ+ history of the State. Florence Cox (1887–1950) had a middle-class upbringing in Melbourne. In 1914 she travelled to Bengal to marry her fiancé Frank Paice and to join him in his missionary work for the Baptist church. The couple returned to Melbourne in 1918 and the following year the Supreme Court of Victoria, at Paice’s request, annulled their marriage. The Supreme Court file reveals that Paice declared he had been unable to consummate the marriage, due to ‘a malformation frigidity or other defect of the parts of generation’ of his wife. Both Paice and Cox were subject to medical examination, which established that Cox had what is recognised today as the intersex condition complete androgen insensitivity syndrome. The court determined that marital intercourse, as it was understood at the time, was impossible for Paice and Cox, and granted the request for an annulment. Paice remarried, fathered children and led a successful professional and civic life, serving a period as Mayor of Nunawading, in the middle- class eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Cox’s life was very different. It is unlikely that anyone in her life would have known what had prompted the end of the marriage, but gossip would certainly have focussed on her part in it. She never remarried and, although she remained connected to her family, her story was rarely discussed. Cox was admitted to Mont Park Mental Hospital in Melbourne’s northern suburbs in 1945, where she died five years later. The Supreme Court file preserves one of the most detailed medical descriptions of a person with intersex variations from that period. It is particularly striking that following the court case, the file was closed ‘forever’. This indicates how seriously the court took the case, and its determination to protect Cox and Paice from public scrutiny. It speaks loudly to the thinking of the time on a matter that was rarely, if ever, raised in public. In 1997, Cox’s great-nephew Ian Richardson set out to investigate the secrecy surrounding his great-aunt Florrie. Following a relentless, two-year campaign by Richardson and other descendants of Cox and Paice, the Supreme Court file was finally opened to the public. Richardson’s book, God’s Triangle, recounts his quest and brings Cox’s story out of the archives and into the light. Quoted from "A History of LGBTIQ+ Victoria in 100 Places and Objects" by Graham Willett, Angela Bailey, Timothy W. Jones and Sarah Rood.

In Victoria’s State archives there is a remarkable cache of letters written by George Bateson, who was arrested and convicted of sodomy in late 1860. There are some 200 letters addressed to notable Victorians including the governor, premier, inspector-general of penal establishments, members of parliament, and lawyers. These rare documents provide powerful evidence of homosexual life and the impacts of mid-nineteenth century laws relating to sodomy. The story begins on an evening in November 1860, when 19-year-old William Gardner went to the police to complain that the previous evening, when he was staying at a city hotel with George Bateson, he had been subjected to Bateson’s sexual advances. The police asked Gardner to meet with Bateson again the following evening and when their sexual connection was sufficiently advanced, Gardner should cough twice. He agreed to the plan, and when Gardner coughed the police emerged from a closet in the hallway, catching the two men in the act. Bateson was convicted of sodomy in 1860, but his death sentence was recorded rather than pronounced. In due course the Governor of Victoria commuted the sentence, as was usual for the crime, and instead sentenced Bateson to 15 years’ hard labour, with the first three years to be spent in chains. In 1871, Bateson was released, having spent four years less in prison than his original sentence. During and after his time in prison, Bateson wrote letters to the authorities to assert that he was innocent, falsely accused and the victim of a conspiracy. He demanded that this terrible miscarriage of justice should be reversed and a pardon granted to him. Bateson was not the first man in Victoria to be convicted and sentenced in this way; nor was he the first to petition for redress. But the extent of his letters and the scope of the issues raised in them offer a remarkable insight into homosexual life in the mid-nineteenth century, such as how men might meet each other, and approaches to police and punish homosexual behaviour. Bateson’s letters provide crucial evidence to expand our understanding of Victoria’s queer past. Quoted from "A History of LGBTIQ+ Victoria in 100 Places and Objects" by Graham Willett, Angela Bailey, Timothy W. Jones and Sarah Rood.

In October 1901, Mr B. Cleal wrote to the Chief Commissioner of Police complaining about the large number of effeminate young men using ‘various conveniences’ for ‘an evil of the most terrible description’. Mr Cleal’s letter is part of a remarkable collection of documents held by Public Record Office Victoria that are valuable to LGBTIQ+ history and heritage in providing unparalleled insight into where and how beats operated in and around the city at that time. By ‘conveniences’ Cleal meant public toilets, and he listed the busiest of them: the corner of Rathdowne and Victoria streets; Lansdowne Street, East Melbourne; under the viaduct opposite the Customs House in Flinders Street; at the rear of the old City Court in Little Collins Street; and under the viaduct at the foot of King Street. Cleal described in detail how these beats worked: ‘One cannot enter but two or three of the above fellows rush in and on pretence of using same will pass some disgusting remark concerning one’s person etc’. The Chief Commissioner despatched one of his officers, Sergeant Canty, to investigate. Canty’s report provides further detail and description of who he encountered at the public toilets. He reported that men ‘known by the term “Pufters” [sic], are generally well dressed, sober, quiet in their manner and some of them very well connected’. Canty further noted about these men: 'it is often very difficult for the police to catch them offending, and if they do at any time make filthy or indecent overtures to any man, they believe him to be similarly inclined, but should they make a mistake the man insulted never thinks of giving any of them in charge [complaining to the police], but sometimes gives the offender a well-deserved blow or kick instead, of which the recipient never complains.' Sergeant Canty admitted that the problem had existed for some time. But, he added, ‘I don’t think the evil complained of is as great as said in attached [Cleal’s letter]’. In reviewing the file, Canty’s supervisor noted that Cleal, ‘appears to have given these resorts considerable attention’. Much of the evidence for same-sex activity in Melbourne in the early twentieth century comes from court cases and sensationalist news reports. With their eyewitness accounts of the use of local beats, these documents in the collection of Public Record Office Victoria provide a more detailed, understated account, making them some of the more unusual and historically significant records in Melbourne’s queer history. Quoted from "A History of LGBTIQ+ Victoria in 100 Places and Objects" by Graham Willett, Angela Bailey, Timothy W. Jones and Sarah Rood.

Phillip Shillinglaw and four of his children arrived in the Port Phillip District in 184, travelling on the "India". His grandson, also Phillip, settled in Eltham where his house, Shillinglaw Cottage, still stands. Contents Sleeve containing list of "Descendants of George Shillinglaw". Sleeve containing "Bird family tree". Sleeve containing "Kidd family history". Sleeve containing Shillinglaw and Aldous connection Flier: "150th Anniversary Shillinglaw Family, 20 October 1991". Photograph: Shllinglaw group, 1 January 1909. Photograph: Shillinglaw group with carriage, 1907. Sleeve containing two lists of Bunker family members. Letter Ken Shillinglaw to EDHS, 12 December 1980: Provides information on Shillinglaw family and Shillinglaw Cottage. Newsletter items: "Shillinglaw Family History:, Eltham District Historical Society, January 2008 and March 2008. Email Helen Castafaro nee Shillinglaw, 7 March 2013: Enquiring about Shillinglaw family bible. Funeral notice and Tribute: Melva Lucie Richards, 2 October 2017. Journal article: "Glad were they to rest on Australia's Shore", Ancestors, March 2008. Elizabeth Crawford's story of Philip Shillinglaw and children. Printout, "Eltham Court, Tuesday, February 21", Advertiser, 22 February 1929.Elizabeth Shillinglaw fined for filing to destroy noxious weeks under the Vermin and Noxious Weeds Act. Sleeve containing "About the Shillinglaws", Borders Family History Society Newsletter 5, November 1987; map of Shillinglaw Wall; leaflet "Traquair"; Note that material is not connected to Eltham Shillinglaw family according to Margaret Ball September 2017. Newspaper clippings, A4 photocopies, etcgeorge shillinglaw, thomas shillinglaw, william shillinglaw, andrew shillinglaw, philip shillinglaw, anne shillinglaw, caroline shillinglaw, edward edwards, philip edwards, caroline edwards, james edwards, charlotte edwards, margaret edwards, edith edwards, elizabeth edwards, marth edwards, sarah ann kidd, sarah ann shillinglaw, jane shillinglaw, christopher watson, jean watson, elizabeth ann shillinglaw, mary ann shillinglaw, margaret susan shillinglaw, alfred philip shillinglaw, arthur james shillinglaw, florence may shillinglaw, edward thomas bunker, edward ernest bunker, sebella doris noye, florence joyce bunker, graham leslie gibson, lehanne gibson, glenn leslie gibson, janine gibson, ernest geoffrey bunker, shirley mary sealy, wayne geoffrey bunker, jennifer thorton, leslie bunker, anthony bunker, bruce bunker, christina bunker, robin gaye bunker, colin anderson, malcolm stewart anderson, yana gaye anderson, alisha rae anderson, carley johanna anderson, debby lee bunker, christopher alan mcgeachin, ronald graham woof, benjamine alan mcgeachin, scott william mcgeachin, justin lee mcgeachin, brit raymond woff, kerry ann woff, ronald james woff, sharon mary bunker, dennis alfred kernaghan, terry alfred kernaghan, jason jeffrey kernaghan, michelle ann bunker, christopher hayes, ian lindsay eastlake, shane anthony bunker, arron john hayes, cheryl eastlake, troy william eastlake, philip alan bunker, ethol myra bunker, richard johnson, sadie forence bunker, walter hardley, margaret hardley, ernest john ball, robert john ball, sharon ann ball, damien sproule-carroll, kieran peter sproule-carroll, riley john sproule-carroll, tyson josh sproule-carroll, elyshia jade sproule-carroll, elizabeth hardley, john ewan horton, keith campbell bell, paula nash, sarah mounsey, winona horton, ned robert horton, archie james horton, kiraly ewan horton, andrew burgess, finley rusty burgess, rose elizabeth jonty burgess, zoe vera pat burgess, wade james ewan horton, simone o'reilly, matthew john ewan horton, ethan jude walter horton, william john leslie horton, ada eveleen bunker, walter britton, lorna valerie britton, graeme bunton, donna lee britton, steve mcleod, gavin mcleod, dannielle mcleod, nicole mcleod, adam mcleod, andrew graeme bunton, lyle walter britton, denise britton, karen britton, robin britton, zade lookie, ryan lookie, matt lookie, graeme britton, wendy harris, jason britton, laurel britton, marjorie eveleen britton, brian reid, paul reid, diane reid, brandon reid, catelyn reid, julie reif, ronald edward britton, megan britton, sean britton, michelle britton, dorothy joan britton, graham paul, deona paul, lucas paul, fletcher paul, cohen paul, oakley paul, ian leslie britton, gordon keith bunker, jean kinsmore, alan gordon bunker, lorraine bunker, jimmy pryor, sue pryor, lindy pryor, craig pryor, dannielle pryor, jessica pryor, dylan pryor, kaytlin pryor, davin pryor, rebecca pryor, nicole pryor, maurice bunker, marjorie mcnelley, maurine isobel bradley, rowina lee bunker, justin dale bunker, doris bunker, eva bessie bunker, john ramsay trevena, myra edith trevena, jeffrey charles amey, carolyn amey, michael andrew aitkin, wesley matthew amery, june dulcie trevena, michael scorgie, mark andrew scorgie, vickie berry, nyssa scorgie, paul timothy scorgie, philip david scorgie, marien ludus, peter john trevena, lesley richardson, craig trevena, lisa helen trevena, rhonda jean trevena, richard maurice lawrence, matthew stewart lawrence, glenn richard lawrence, ernest samuel shillinglaw, anna lucy barlow, melva lucie shillinglaw, donald george richards, katheryn lucille richards, philip scicluna, leslie ernest shillinglaw, kenneth ernest shillinglaw, valerie joy shillinglaw, lynette ann shillinglaw, heather marie shillinglaw, philip john shillinglaw, raymond leslie shillinglaw, ada maria shillinglaw, william pearce chrisfield, mary shillinglaw, william james somerville, joseph shillinglaw, jane davidson, samuel shillinglaw, agnes mary mcintosh, arthur samuel shillinglaw, agnes mary shillinglaw, barbara ethol shillinglaw, lillian muriel shillinglaw, elsie gladys shillinglaw, catherine shillinglaw, edward bottle, sarah shillinglaw, charles aldous, margaret shillinglaw, james shillinglaw, elizabeth shillinglaw, john docherty, ann shillinglaw, william henry long, john peter long, mary ann long, elizabeth ann clements, doras pearce, lillias long, bertha long, eliza long, arthur long, hedley long, agnes long, philip thomas long, martha agnes long, ella-fanny long, martha shillinglaw, william lilburne, liliac whilhelmina lilburne, arthur edmond lilburne, claire jepson, william harvey lilburne, john ross, margaret wilson, james bird, mary ann bird, william bird, sarah ann bird, william kidd, caroline bird, jane bird, maria bird, george stebbing, george kidd, janet bird, ship fairlie master r cowan, janet kilpatrick, william james bird, mary jane bird, george hugh bird, edwin john bird, edward ernest pepper, george pepper, ernest henry pepper, francis pepper, howard pepper, david pepper, jessie pepper, ivan pepper, evelyn bird, ernest reginald bird, arthur andrew bird, ellen may bird, ada janet bird, helen lyon, harold bird, roger bird, william mealy, edwin mealy, lloyd mealy, warwick mealy, winifred mealy, janet mealy, stan lowe, dave lowe, alie lowe, beryl lowe, ted lowe, lily low, elleen lowe, samuel kidd, john kilpatrick, mary gilmour, james logan, ship talbot, thomas kidd, sarah kidd, james kidd, caroline kidd, adeline kidd, sabina kidd, susan kidd, jane kidd, mathew kidd, maria kidd, mary kidd, james kilpatrick, sarah boxen, jane kilpatrick, hugh kilpatrick, mary kilpatrick, william bridbane, sarah kilpatrick, william kilpatrick, andrew kilpatrick, david kilpatrick, emily saunders, montague pepper, william pepper, catherine pepper, albert pepper, henriette pepper, alexander pepper, alice pepper, edward pepper, sarah pepper, sarah bird, mary bird, george bird, edwin bird, ada bird, ellen bird, arthur bird, reginald bird, carline bird, ruth logan, john logan, jane logan, william logan, helen logan, andrew logan, hugh logan, mary logan, sarah logan, sarah anne bird, ernest pepper, frank pepper, jne perrin nee brown, marriott's market garden bentleigh, david lowe, alice lowe, ten lowe, lily lowe, eileen lowe, nell bird, 204 pitt street eltham, wendy bird, very bird, bird bros eltham, yarra valley mills, marlene bird, duncan fraser, view hill pitt streeet eltham, eltham methodist church, hilda pepper, rickliffe stret eltham, view hill crescent eltham, ann tonkin, james clark, margaret tonkin, richard martin, sarah tonkin, duncan mccallum, isabella tonkin, thomas giblett, flora tonkin, john sinclair strachan, carol tonkin, samuel wood, charlotte tonkin, john thomas moyes, albertha tonkin, leslie frederick burley goodwin, alexandrina hutchinson tonkin, william henry johns, florateina tonkin, benjamin clayton, henrietta tonkin, william johansen, caroline farie kidd, ruth wilson, alexander stewart, james george reynolds, alice jackson reynolds, william henry mills, alfred mason, matthew kidd, mary ann kidd, alexander kirk stewart, caroline fairlie kidd, grace mckenzie, james leslie stewart, william alexander stewart, olive rose stewart, alfred henry grimshaw, john lee grimshaw, mary yates, angus george stewart, percival roy stewart, clive thornton stewart, amy cunningham, mary anne kidd, james g renolds, william a williams, aldous family, barlow family, bird family, blemmier family, bottle family, britton family, brown family, bunker family, crichton family, christfield family, docherty family, hobson family, hardley family, johnston family, kidd family, kinsmore family, lilburne family, long family, macrobinson family, mcgrath family, mcintosh family, mcnelley family, murphy family, noble family, noye family, somerville family, taylor family, trevena family, trivett family, watson family, white family, margaret ball, corrie shillinglaw, carrie watson, melva lucie richards, kathryn richardson, barque india, ship roland, shillinglaw cottage, raymond shillinglaw, valerie shillinglaw, lynette shillinglaw, heather shillinglaw, melva lucie richards nee shillinglaw, carrie shillinglaw nee watson, j r trevena nee bunker, w hardley nee bunker, sadie hartley nee bunker, dupplin gardens coburg, jean shillinglaw nee blemner, sarah ann shillinglaw nee kidd, helen castafaro nee shillinglaw, lesley ernest shillinglaw, helen shillinglaw, jean shilling nee blemner, sarah aldous nee shillinglaw, florence may beerereg nee shillinglaw, elizabeth annie mooney nee aldous, james mooney, percival john aldous, ada lillian wilson nee aldous, charles douglas wilson, alice blemner gunn nee aldous, ernest james gunn, ethel vera brian nee aldous, thomas lindsay brian, peter brian, thomas brian, john aldous, anna marion aldous nee read, elizabeth ann aldous, elizabeth annie aldous, florence may aldous, alice blamire gunn nee aldous, william beere, charles peace, ethel vera aldous, phillip shillinglaw, elizabeth crawford, ship india, martha lilburne nee shillinglaw

Grey hardcovered book of 244 pages with a foreword by Lionel Lindsay. Numerous text illustrations, of which 134 are tipped-in or mounted bookplates. 20 of these signed or initialled by the artist, including the coloured frontispiece bookplate of Edward, Prince of Wales, by Adrian Feint. A standard edition of 210 copies of this book was privately printed at Beacon Press, Sydney. It contains fewer bookplates than the deluze edition. bookplate, adrien feint, thomas bewick, g.d. perrottet, albrecht durer, lucas cranach, john everett millais, timothy cole, w.e. home, george eve, bernard partidge, wiliam heinemann, edward gordon craig, lucien psisaro, w. sturge moore, james guthrie, frank bangwyn, john renniel, bruno heroux, adolf kinst, karl michel, edward wengert, r. rother, josef weiss, willi knabe, otto feil, rose reinhold, victor eichler, georg neurath, f. chalandre, victor stuyvaert, ludvic rudo, edward pellens, chris lebeau, agta mijer, anton pieck, harriet sundstrom, john refberg, s. joudowin, paul schillingorski, n. presirvesy, john rerberg, a.i. kravchenko, s.o. chrostowski, bruno osima, antonello moroni, bruno da osimo, alfred peter, peter boesch, k. hanny, o. stafl, j. votruba, jan paroubek, vojtech preissig, karel nemec, a. burka, jaro beran, fr bilek, ant dolezal, josepf hodek, joseph vachal, viktor vavra, fr horky, f. kobliha, anna mackova, j. dobrovolsky, george wolfe plank, j.j. lankes, allen lewis, rockwell kent, yumeji, tatsuo tuzawa, gentaro kobayashi, eikichi katori, kyosen kawasaki, shu hokusho, masama akinaga, hild wiseman, t.v. gilliver, peggy sherriff, stephen champ, roy hunt, alfred cook, norman lindsay, lionel lindsay, george collingridge, margaret oppen, edgar satchell, ethel spowers, j.c. goodchild, philip m. litchfield, h.r. gallop, w.f. mahony, adrian feint, john b. godson, john bewick, christian yandell, napier waller, erick thake, g. west, herman theodore radin, mabel dickinson, ex libris, w. halberg, peter lindsay, vere ritchie, percy nevile barnett, peter tansey, christain waller, w.c. schmidt, w.f. hopson, r.a. clive, bernard patridge, e. muruyamo, yoshimo muto, vioet pilling