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The archaeological assemblage from the Hyde Park Barracks is one of the largest, most comprehensive and best preserved collections of artefacts from any 19th-century institution in the world.

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This groundbreaking book reports on almost three decades of excavations conducted on the Commonwealth Block the area of central Melbourne bordered by Little Lonsdale, Lonsdale, Exhibition and Spring streets.

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Using archival research and archaeological evidence, The Shore Whalers of Western Australia examines the history and operation of this almost forgotten industry on the remote maritime frontier of the British Empire and the role of the whalers in the history of early contact between Europeans and Aboriginal people.

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Melbourne grew during the 19th century from its fledgling roots into a global metropolitan centre, and was home to many people from a range of social and cultural backgrounds.In this important study, material culture is used to understand the unique way in which the Martin family used gentility to establish and maintain their middle-class position.

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Cleanliness is Next to Godliness is the first scholarly work that presents the archaeology of Victorian social conventions as evidence of something more than respectability manifested as socio-economic status, manners and etiquette.

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Reveals a fascinating story of how Chinese fish curers successfully dominated Australia's fishing industry; how they lived, worked, organised themselves, participated in colonial society, and the reasons why they suddenly disappeared.

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Excavations at the site in 1982 by Judy Birmingham and Associates uncovered a rich and important archaeological record of John Thomas Smith's lives in the form of a cesspit rubbish deposit.

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By looking at both the material evidence produced by archaeological excavation and the written sources, Allen sought to integrate both sorts of evidence to produce an eclectic history that was neither social nor political nor economic in its primary emphasis, but combined all three.