Jill Blee

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The Irish community who came seeking gold brought their old-world conflict with them to the new land of Australia. The Orange and the Green focussed their antagonism on neighbourhood pubs in 1875, at a time of waning profits and underemployment on the famous Ballarat goldfields. The mines...Read more

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The Liberator's Birthday, Jill Blee

We read this for our f2f bookclub which had the added interest of our being only an hour out of Ballarat - although few of the members of the club come from this area or have much direct knowledge of the Goldfield time in that town.

Generally the consensus was a reasonably good...Read more

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Jill Blee