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 * State Library Useful History Resources **

**The Migration Museum** in Adelaide, South Australia, is well worth the visit for many aspects of social and colonial history.
Open Daily
 * 10am-5pm** Monday-Friday
 * 1pm-5pm** Weekends and Public Holidays (Closed Christmas Day and Good Friday)

Free admission
82 Kintore Avenue, Australia , 5001 (08) 8207 7580 migration@history.sa.gov.au

A picture of the original handwritten document with the King's red seal attached

Bound For South Australia
This site, created by the History Trust of South Australia, is presented as a log of the ship voyage, recounted day by day. Links are to primary sources like passenger lists and old maps. The Letters Patent said that the rights of Aboriginal people had always to be observed. Bound For South Australia explains this at []

Pictures of the hand-written South Australia Act of 1834, with an explanation of its history and of what it said about Aboriginal rights

This site, made by History SA, has set out to deliver snapshots of Adelaide's history. You can find out about how the first Aboriginal flag was flown in Adelaide, or read about the people who have shaped Adelaide or about the memorial to horses who have helped in war... Every month there is a Feature of the Month. Wherever possible, the history is illustrated with photographs. The History Trust will ulitmately enlarge the site to include history of the whole of South Australia.
 * ADELAIDIA**

K. Crilly has created a site with snippets of primary sources related to South Australia's history, of suitable length for young students. Mainly related to the foundation of Adelaide and its government, it is updated as new sources come to light. Melbourne, Vic. : Penguin Group (Australia), 2012. Many of the early settlers coming to the colony of South Australia had left the misery of the potato famine in Ireland. When the potatoes rotted in the ground in 1847, poor peasants who had no other food were suddenly starving. At least one million people died. Others emigrated. South Australia was eager to recruit labour, and many Irish people came to the colony. This quartet of novels describes the fortunes of Irish Nellie, who migrated in 1849. Her experiences of early Adelaide, with its idealism, and of Burra, where copper had recently been discovered, make the four novels an ideal background to a study of colonial history. || || The summaries given behind the headings on the page below are largely based on the chapters of Dutton's book (see above). >
 * HISTORY South Australia**
 * Dutton, Geoffrey, A taste of history : Adelaide, S.A. : Rigby, 1978. Geoffrey Dutton gives a comprehensive, if personal, overview of the major developments in South Australia's history. It was also made into a TV series at the time of publication. The summaries given behind the headings on the page below are based on the chapters of this book. || [[image:geoffreydutton.jpg width="132" height="183"]] ||
 * Weather and the science of settlement / Tony Rogers ; consultant meteorologist, Beth Walton ; reseacher, Alan Holmes. Kent Town, S. Aust. : Australian Meteorological Association Incorporated, 2011. This is an excellent fund of primary sources relating to the arrival of the early settlers in South Australia, their struggles with the weather and climate, and their gradual shaping of the city of Adelaide. Much of the material has not been published before. (Thanks to Marg Underwood for mentioning this book.) || [[image:scienceofsettlement2.jpg width="132" height="163"]] ||
 * Meet Nellie / Penny Matthews ; with illustrations by Lucia Masciullo. Our Australian Girl Series.
 * **__Flinders in 1802__**
 * **__Sturt in 1830, 1844__**
 * **__1831 Captain Collett Barker__**
 * **__Edward Gibbon Wakefield 1829__**
 * **Queen Adelaide**
 * **__Colonel William Light__**
 * **__Governor Hindmarsh, the Old Gum Tree and the Buffalo__**
 * **__Life for Early arrivals in Adelaide__**
 * **__Aboriginal people and early settlers__**
 * **__Kaurna language__**
 * **__German settlers__**
 * **__Copper Mines at Kapunda and Burra__**
 * **__John Ridley and farming in SA__**
 * **__Early artists__**
 * **The Murray River and the Chaffey Brothers**
 * **__The coming of the railways and their impact on the life of the colony__**
 * **__The South-East and water drainage__**
 * **__George Goyder and farming in SA__**
 * **__Ngadjuri__**
 * **__John McDouall Stuart__**
 * **__Charles Todd and the telegraph__**
 * **__Impacts on the environment of early land treatment and introduced species__**
 * **__Water supply__**
 * **__Elder Smith and Co__**
 * **__Shipping transport ; Port Wakefield 1849__**
 * **__Wine industry__**
 * **__Gawler__**
 * **Saint Mary McKillop**
 * __Port Pirie 1889__
 * __Copper Triangle__
 * __Catherine Helen Spence and South Australian women’s suffrage__
 * Torrens land title system; Robert Torrens and Ulrich Hübbe
 * Charles Cameron Kingston **

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