Riflemen Form!
A comprehensive history of the Victorian Volunteer Force on the central Victorian goldfields 1859-1883.
This history looks at the formation of an armed citizen's defence force in the wake of the Eureka Stockade .
This social and military history analyses the motivation, actions and demographics of the largest single social group on the central goldfields (over 5,500 men).
The Volunteers became an important part of goldfields society as they wielded power and influence at all levels.
2005, illustrated, 200 pages
Significance Assessment
Carried out on the Hamilton Pastoral Museum Collection in conjunction with Heritage Victoria.
This Assessment covers some 88 pages and carefully analyses the Museum's comprehensive collection of farming equipment, daily life on the land and associated artefacts totalling over 15,000 items.
The significance of the Museum's collection was assessed against local, regional, state, national and international standards to generate a picture of one of the Victoria's most comprehensive and valuable collections.
The Nelson's Sixty Fours
In February 1997, two rare and unusual cannon were found in an archaeological dig in Bendigo.
Fourteen years later they have been restored and placed on public display at Fort Queenscliff.
The two cannon came off the Victorian Navy's flagship, the HMVS Nelson, after defending Port Phillip for over twenty years.
How they came to be buried in Bendigo is an intriguing story which has taken Dr Bob Marmion and Marilyn Townsend half way around the world in search of an answer. Their book, The Nelson's Sixty Fours, chronicles the amazing story behind the cannon, published May 2011.