Dr Kathleen Fennessy discusses her Redmond Barry 1854 Fellowship project ‘Ploughing with one heifer: Colonial Victorians Learning the Land’ and the research she has been undertaking at the Library.
Her project, which forms the research for a book, focuses on the way settlers, who were often inexperienced, learned about the land and learned to use it productively during the period when the Colony of Victoria’s Selection Acts attempted to establish an independent yeomanry.
Dr Fennessy's research for the project has principally been focused on rare books, manuscripts and newspapers in the Library's Heritage Collection.
This lecture was held at the State Library of Victoria on Thursday 14 June 2007.
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