Posts in The Copybook tagged ‘History of Australia’
By Francis Wheatley (?-1801), via the National Portrait Gallery and Wikimedia Commons.
Having brought hundreds of convicts to New South Wales, Arthur Phillip then had to conjure order out of their chaos.
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By Nathaniel Dance-Holland (1735-1811), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
Captain Cook’s friend and ship’s surgeon David Samwell gives us his impressions of the great explorer.
By Ernest Brooks (1878–1957), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain.
John Buchan was moved by the way the nations of the British Empire volunteered for service in the Great War.
© Fir0002/Flagstaffotos, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: GFDL v1.2.
James Cook describes his first sight of a beloved Australian icon.
© Colin Davis (CSIRO), Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.
Samuel Sidney, a Victorian expert on Australian matters, explained how cutting tax and regulation on Britain’s global trade made everyone better off.
© Andy Mitchell. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Within little more than half a century a British penal colony turned into a prosperous, free-trade democracy.