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Mould, dodging mine shafts, sleeping in beds of dried leaves: Mary Anne Allen’s diary offers a fascinating glimpse of family life on the goldfields in 1852.
In the late 1800's Catherine Hay went undercover and then wrote newspaper articles about the horrific conditions endured by hundreds of women in hospitals and asylums.