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Author

Clare Wright

Dr Clare Wright is an award-winning historian and author who has worked as an academic, political speechwriter, historical consultant and radio and television broadcaster. Wright’s The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka won the 2014 Stella Prize and the 2014 NIB Award for Literature and was shortlisted for numerous other prizes. It is published in a revised edition as We Are the Rebels, which was a Children’s Book Council of Australia Notable Book for 2016. Her essays and journalism have been widely published. Her work in other media includes the ABC-TV documentaries Utopia Girls: How Women Won the Vote and The War That Changed Us, as well as the podcast Shooting the Past, which is broadcast on ABC Radio National. Clare Wright is currently an Associate Professor of History at La Trobe University. She lives in Melbourne with her husband and their three children.

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Title:

The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka (MP3)

Written by:

Clare Wright 

Read by:

Kate Hosking 

Format:

Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

1 

Duration:

16 hours 38 minutes 

MP3 size:

723 MB 

Published:

February 28 2017 

Available Date:

February 28 2017 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781489380340 

Genres:

Non-fiction; Australian 

Publisher:

ABC Audio 

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Price

Bolinda price

AUD$ 49.95

AUD$ 49.95

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‘Immediately entrancing … Wright challenges the traditional view of the stockade to create a much richer social history.’
The Guardian

The story of how gold miners rebelled against British authority, beginning a process that would ultimately lead to democracy in Australia.

The Eureka Stockade. It’s one of Australia’s foundation legends – yet the story has always been told as if half the participants weren’t there. But what if the hot-tempered, free-spirited gold miners we learned about at school were actually husbands and fathers, brothers and sons? What if there were women and children right there beside them, inside the Stockade, when the bullets started to fly? And how do the answers to these questions change what we thought we knew about the so-called ‘birth of Australian democracy’? Who, in fact, were the midwives to that precious delivery? Ten years in the research and writing, irrepressibly bold, entertaining and often irreverent in style, Clare Wright’s The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka is a fitting tribute to the unbiddable women of Ballarat – women who made Eureka a story for us all.

‘Evokes the goldfields era vividly … brings to life the experiences of so many young immigrants to Australia in the 1850.'
The Age