This presentation was delivered to the HTAV Middle Years conference 2012 and focuses on the Year 9 Australian History Depth Study, Making a Better World

1. Gold Changed Everything
Marion Littlejohn
Education Officer
Sovereign Hill Museums

2. Session description in programme
For your depth study Making a Better World, why
not look at progressive ideas and movements
through the experience of immigrants on the
goldfields? A study of mid-nineteenth century
experiences in Victoria involves capitalism,
socialism, egalitarianism, nationalism, imperialism,
Darwinism, and Chartism as gold became the
catalyst which transformed lives. Indeed it could be
said ‘Gold changed everything!’
Year 9

5. Charles Darwin,
aged 45 in 1854, by then
working towards publication of
On the Origin of Species

6. 1838 Oliver Twist
1839 Nicholas Nickleby
1841 The Old Curiosity Shop
1843 A Christmas Carol
1849 David Copperfield
1850 began his weekly journal
Household Words.
Charles Dickens
1812 - 1870