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

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