Full Record: Prahran Mechanics Institute

Full Record

Main Title:	Men of yesterday : a social history of the Western district of Victoria, 1834-1890 / Margaret Kiddle.
Author:	Kiddle, Margaret Loch
Imprint:	Melbourne University Press, 1961.
Collation:	573 p. : ill., portraits, notes, bib., index, hbk ; 24 cm.

Subject:	Land settlement Squatters and squatting Pioneers Agriculture and farmers Pastoralists Properties, homesteads and stations Western District (Vic.)
Notes:	Contents include: Mail, letters p80. Transport p82. Hotels, accommodation p83. Entertainment p84. Hunting p85. Horse racing p87. Women p88. Sheep / wool washing p143, 376. Anti-transportation of convicts p147. Independence agitation chapter 8. Gold, agitation for land reform, land selection p233. Acclimatization Society p319. Description of Melbourne p329. Melbourne society p329. Melbourne Mechanics' Institute (Athenaeum) p352. Theatres p352. Sheep breeding p362. Horses p380. Cattle p386. Shearers p401. Shearer's Cook p406. Swiss vignerons, vineyards p143, 414. Pylloxera p415. Germans p415. Selectors p418. Towns p430. Ships p436. Hotels p437. Local government p439. Law and order p442. Churches, religion p443. Schools, education p448. Mechanics' institutes p454. Cultural activities p455. Newspapers p456. Private and grammar schools, education p483..