Webquest
Webquest 1
Investigate the Australian National Library’s Trove website for an interesting case involving Selina Sutherland and the ‘disputed custody of a child’. The case was covered in detail by the Argus, Tuesday 25 February 1890, p 6.
Q. What judgement was made in the case?
Q. Why do you think the judge handed down this judgement?
Webquest 2
Marvellous Melbourne – Boom and Bust
Use the tags below to research life in Melbourne during the 1880s and 1890s.
Performing Arts
Entertainers of the time, theatres, music hall, melodrama, the Princess and Her Majesty’s theatres, Sarah Bernhardt
Architecture
Parliament House, the Australian Building, Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens, Federal Coffee Palace
Transport & Trade
Hansom cabs, trams, railways, drays, barrows, shipping in Hobson’s Bay, Eastern Market, Expo 1888, Workers’ march
Social Conditions
Housing & Social Class: Casselden and Cumberland Place, Street, mission work – rescue brigades, temperance groups, Collins Street versus Little Lonsdale
Health & Poverty: epidemics, hygiene, slum clearance, 19th century diet & take aways, oyster bars, plum duff, currant buns
Justice, Gangs & Larrikins: capital punishment and corporal punishment, glass and bottles, the push, military rifle brigades
Webquest 3
Search online for a map of Little Lon in the 19th century. Try the State Library of Victoria, Museum Victoria and Heritage Victoria websites.
Draw a map showing the location of Casselden Place and Cumberland Place, the Leitrim Hotel, the Wesley Church, the Carlton Gardens, the Exhibition Buildings, Parliament House.
Compare and contrast your map of Little Lon with a modern map of the area. In what ways are they alike or different?
- Link your findings to examples
from In Lonnie’s Shadow.