When Alma Cowie awoke on the morning of 1 January 1915 she planned to spend a relaxed day picnicking. What unfolded instead was an unexplained act of armed violence that left four people dead and seven wounded. On the edge of the Broken Hill township, a gun-battle unfolded in efforts to arrest the perpetrators. These […]
Armed with just three years of schooling, British socialist Tom Mann became a globally influential union organiser during the early 1900s. When living in Australia he spent time on the historic 1909 picket lines at Broken Hill. His influence and time in the mining-town was documented by several local photographers, including James Wooler and the […]
In January 1888 a thirty-mile stretch of train track was opened with much pomp and ceremony on the western border of New South Wales. It’s hard to imagine now but the construction of this infrastructure, when the only modes of transport were bullock train, camel, and horse and cart, was vital and revolutionary in its […]
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