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Little Lonsdale Street in the 1870s: a number of brothels were located in the area known as ‘Little Lon’. State Library of New South Wales.

Sex and the sisterhood: how prostitution worked for women in 19th‑century Melbourne

Sarah Hayes, La Trobe University and Barbara Minchinton, La Trobe University

Rubbish excavated from brothels sheds light on sex workers’ lives in the 19th century. Despite the dangers, prostitution offered an independent living free of male control.
Gold Rush garbage. S.Hayes. Artefact is part of Heritage Victoria's collection.

Gold Rush Victoria was as wasteful as we are today

Sarah Hayes, La Trobe University

What we buy has defined who we are since the Gold Rush. In the 1850s and 1860s, people communicated their social status by buying stuff - dinner sets, junk jewellery - and throwing their old things away.

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