The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka

· Bolinda · Narrated by Kate Hosking
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The Eureka Stockade. It’s one of Australia’s foundation legends – yet the story has always been told as if half the participants weren’t there. But what if the hot-tempered, free-spirited gold miners we learned about at school were actually husbands and fathers, brothers and sons? What if there were women and children right there beside them, inside the Stockade, when the bullets started to fly? And how do the answers to these questions change what we thought we knew about the so-called ‘birth of Australian democracy’? Who, in fact, were the midwives to that precious delivery? Ten years in the research and writing, irrepressibly bold, entertaining and often irreverent in style, Clare Wright’s The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka is a fitting tribute to the unbiddable women of Ballarat – women who made Eureka a story for us all.

About the author

Dr Clare Wright is an award-winning historian and author who has worked as an academic, political speechwriter, historical consultant and radio and television broadcaster. Wright’s The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka won the 2014 Stella Prize and the 2014 NIB Award for Literature and was shortlisted for numerous other prizes. It is published in a revised edition as We Are the Rebels, which was a Children’s Book Council of Australia Notable Book for 2016. Her essays and journalism have been widely published. Her work in other media includes the ABC-TV documentaries Utopia Girls: How Women Won the Vote and The War That Changed Us, as well as the podcast Shooting the Past, which is broadcast on ABC Radio National. Clare Wright is currently an Associate Professor of History at La Trobe University. She lives in Melbourne with her husband and their three children.

Kate Hosking is an Australian performer who has been narrating audiobooks for over 20 years. Her titles range from teenage fiction to adult non-fiction and everything in between. She is a musician, theatre performer and educator.

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