Teacher Resources

Websites

If you are seeking useful information on La Trobe’s Cottage, try typing in ‘Charles Joseph La Trobe’, rather than ‘La Trobe’s Cottage’ which will bring up many tourism websites making useful information difficult to obtain.

http://www.latrobesociety.org.au/ & http://www.foltc.latrobesociety.org.au/

Note also that the La Trobe Society website provides links to available full text articles about the life and work of Charles Joseph La Trobe, together with other references and an index of articles produced in its journal La Trobeana.

Further internet material:

http://adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020077b.htm

http://home.vicnet.net.au/~pioneers/pppg5ag.htm

http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Charles_Joseph_Latrobe

http://www.egold.net.au/biogs/EG00016b.htm

http://gutenberg.net.au/dictbiog/0-dict-biogL.html

http://210.15.209.254/why_melbourne/index.html RHSV virtual history of Melbourne called Why Melbourne?

http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/items/255771/architectural-model-la-trobe-s-cottage-jolimont-1839 This features a model done of the Cottage and now held at Museum Victoria. For a recent article on this model, see Helen Armstrong (La Trobeana, 9 (2)).

http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/studies/history/history-sd.pdf The History Study Design. See especially pp.83-7, 101.

The Governor's Arrival on YouTube

Charles Joseph La Trobe and the Port Phillip District/Victoria: Video.

Written references

Broome, Richard. The Colonial Experience: The Port Phillip District/Victoria 1834-1860. La Trobe University: La Trobe University History Program, 2009. This book is still in current use in the VCE Australian History course. (Earlier editions are actually more useful than the later editions). It can be bought from the HTAV. http://www.htav.asn.au/shop/cid/68/parent/0/t/shop/l/layout

Eastwood, Jill. Melbourne: The Growth of a Metropolis. Melbourne: Thomas Nelson, 1983. This was essential reading in the Australian History course in the 1980s onwards, and will still be found in school and local libraries.

Reilly Drury, Dianne. La Trobe: The making of a governor. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2006

Useful references are also to be found in the Study Design for Australian History Unit 3. See p101 on the VCE History Study website: http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/studies/history/history-sd.pdf

See also La Trobe Society website Publications.