Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE150101203
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$323,189.00
Summary
An Archaeology of Quality of Life During Victoria’s Gold Rush. Victoria's 19th century gold rush triggered a major social and economic transformation with far ranging consequences. This project aims to investigate how individuals responded and contributed to this transformation over their life course, and how this moulded current values around quality of life in Australia. The project also aims to develop a pioneering approach that will integrate historical and archaeological evidence on individ ....An Archaeology of Quality of Life During Victoria’s Gold Rush. Victoria's 19th century gold rush triggered a major social and economic transformation with far ranging consequences. This project aims to investigate how individuals responded and contributed to this transformation over their life course, and how this moulded current values around quality of life in Australia. The project also aims to develop a pioneering approach that will integrate historical and archaeological evidence on individual, site, neighbourhood, city and global levels in new ways. Fresh social histories of Melbourne and Bendigo will be generated, which reinforce national identity and have implications for understanding the impact of the current mining boom on individuals.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE140101095
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$326,489.00
Summary
An archaeology of colonial consumption: Sydney trade and material culture, 1788–1901. This project will explore Sydney's history as a marketplace, in a broad-ranging examination of consumer cultures, archaeological relics and trade catalogues from the colonial era. It will build on pioneering new methods to explore the cost, quality and value of thousands of objects of domestic material culture found on archaeological sites in Sydney. It will employ emerging digital technologies to analyse disti ....An archaeology of colonial consumption: Sydney trade and material culture, 1788–1901. This project will explore Sydney's history as a marketplace, in a broad-ranging examination of consumer cultures, archaeological relics and trade catalogues from the colonial era. It will build on pioneering new methods to explore the cost, quality and value of thousands of objects of domestic material culture found on archaeological sites in Sydney. It will employ emerging digital technologies to analyse distinctive trends in colonial Australian advertising and the promotion of domestic goods, along with the prices of thousands of goods sold by colonial retailers. The resulting analyses will underwrite new transnational histories of empire, commerce and the social impact of mass consumption at the height of the British empire.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: De150101203
Funder
Australian Research Council
Summary
An Archaeology of Quality of Life During Victoria’s Gold Rush. Victoria's 19th century gold rush triggered a major social and economic transformation with far ranging consequences. This project aims to investigate how individuals responded and contributed to this transformation over their life course, and how this moulded current values around quality of life in Australia. The project also aims to develop a pioneering approach that will integrate historical and archaeological evidence on individ ....An Archaeology of Quality of Life During Victoria’s Gold Rush. Victoria's 19th century gold rush triggered a major social and economic transformation with far ranging consequences. This project aims to investigate how individuals responded and contributed to this transformation over their life course, and how this moulded current values around quality of life in Australia. The project also aims to develop a pioneering approach that will integrate historical and archaeological evidence on individual, site, neighbourhood, city and global levels in new ways. Fresh social histories of Melbourne and Bendigo will be generated, which reinforce national identity and have implications for understanding the impact of the current mining boom on individuals.Read moreRead less
Special Research Initiatives - Grant ID: SR200200157
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$263,414.00
Summary
Fugitive Traces: Reconstructing Yulluna experiences of the frontier. Focussing on oral histories held by a prominent Aboriginal family whose history is deeply enmeshed with the Qld Native Mounted Police, this project aims to consider family history in the broader context of colonial settlement and the complexities of frontier conflict. Through a collaboration of Indigenous peoples, archaeologists, historians, anthropologists, museum curators and educators, the expected outcome will be the first ....Fugitive Traces: Reconstructing Yulluna experiences of the frontier. Focussing on oral histories held by a prominent Aboriginal family whose history is deeply enmeshed with the Qld Native Mounted Police, this project aims to consider family history in the broader context of colonial settlement and the complexities of frontier conflict. Through a collaboration of Indigenous peoples, archaeologists, historians, anthropologists, museum curators and educators, the expected outcome will be the first sustained history of a hitherto elusive Aboriginal experience of the frontier. In doing so it will provide fresh insights into a contentious period in Australia’s past. Its chief benefit will be to contribute in a practical way to reconciliation.Read moreRead less
Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: De140101095
Funder
Australian Research Council
Summary
An archaeology of colonial consumption: Sydney trade and material culture, 1788–1901. This project will explore Sydney's history as a marketplace, in a broad-ranging examination of consumer cultures, archaeological relics and trade catalogues from the colonial era. It will build on pioneering new methods to explore the cost, quality and value of thousands of objects of domestic material culture found on archaeological sites in Sydney. It will employ emerging digital technologies to analyse disti ....An archaeology of colonial consumption: Sydney trade and material culture, 1788–1901. This project will explore Sydney's history as a marketplace, in a broad-ranging examination of consumer cultures, archaeological relics and trade catalogues from the colonial era. It will build on pioneering new methods to explore the cost, quality and value of thousands of objects of domestic material culture found on archaeological sites in Sydney. It will employ emerging digital technologies to analyse distinctive trends in colonial Australian advertising and the promotion of domestic goods, along with the prices of thousands of goods sold by colonial retailers. The resulting analyses will underwrite new transnational histories of empire, commerce and the social impact of mass consumption at the height of the British empire.Read moreRead less