Ballarat Heritage Services

05/04/2026

Do you have ancestors buried in the Cadtlemaine (Campbell's Creek Cemetery? If so you should be following this project carefully.

Burial Recovery Project “The work is guided by a single purpose: to find these people and return them to rest with the dignity they were denied” Nicci FosterThe first burials at Castlemaine Cemetery occurred in 1852 in Sections A, B, C and D. Almost 100 years later, the Trust started removing hi...

06/12/2025

Christmas Special. $20 (usually $29.95)

* Not just a Pretty Face: Woman on the Goldfields (Dorothy Wickham)
* Corroborees in Goldfields Victoria (Fred Cahir & Ian Clark)
* 'Of One Blood': An appreciation of the Life of Yarley Yarmin (Ian D. Clark)
* Symbolic Faces of Mullawullah (Janice Newton)
* The Football Tribes of of Colonial Ballarat (Robert Pascoe & Mark Pennings)
* Places of Wholesome Terror: Victoria's Country Stone Gaols, 1858-2005. (Leigh Edmonds)
* The Deadly Drop: Hanging comes to Ballarat (Terence Fitzsimons)
* Marketing Madness: Ararat Lunatic Asylum (David Waldron)
* Eighteen Million Reasons: Uncovering Forgotten Places: Industrial Heritage (Clare Gervasoni)
* Myths and Folk Lore on the Goldfields (David Waldron)
* Metamorphoses and the New Landscape (Michael Taffe)
* Remembering, Remembering 'Living heritage' in goldfields settlements 1960-1980) (David Nicholls and Victoria Kilankieswiez)
* Irish on the Goldfields (Val Noone)
* A Driving Vigorous Population: Goldrushes and the Global (Ben Mountford and Stephen Tufnell)
* Revolutionaries, Radical and Eureka (Dorothy Wickham)
* A Gift from Men of all Nations: Garibaldi's Sword of Honour (Clare Gervasoni)
Globalisation through Digital Experience Eurekapedia Wiki (Dorothy Wickham and Clare Gervasoni)
* Historical & heritage Legacies of the Victorian Gold Rushes (Keir Reeves)

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Explore the goldfields! Four major themes!FACES, PLACES, SPACES, TRACESAuthors: Fred Cahir, Ian D Clark, Leigh Edmonds, Terence FitzSimons, Clare Gervasoni, Tim Harrison, Benjamin Mountford, Janice Newton, David Nicholls, Val Noone, Robert Pascoe, Mark Pennings, Keir Reeves, Michael Taffe, Stephen T...

27/11/2025

An interesting site to assist with your research https://www.marinersandships.com.au/1881/05/8105.htm?fbclid=IwVERDUAOVlGlleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR5k1nlu6Yti1lrI-5Ttl55FA4e3vz0RNvZ6wHZU_Q7oC5GD7H3O_d8Rg67MXA_aem_-igzus_1UPfS_71Zt3TsIg

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26/09/2025

Remembering my Irish ancestors.
I love Ireland!