{"id":2785,"date":"2011-11-11T14:09:09","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T04:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/library\/?p=2785"},"modified":"2011-11-11T14:09:09","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T04:39:09","slug":"eric-richards-irregular-pioneers-of-south-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/library\/2011\/11\/11\/eric-richards-irregular-pioneers-of-south-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Richards: Irregular Pioneers of South Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_2787\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2787\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/library\/files\/2011\/11\/eric-richards.jpg\" alt=\"Eric Richards\" width=\"150\" height=\"148\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2787\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2787\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric Richards<\/figcaption><\/figure><strong>Fridays at the Library in the City<br \/>Eric Richards: <a href=\"http:\/\/library.flinders.edu.au\/resources\/collection\/special\/fatl.html\">Irregular Pioneers of South Australia<\/a><\/strong><br \/>182 Victoria Square, Adelaide, 6pm, Friday 25 November<br \/><a title=\"Videorecording: Irregular Pioneers of South Australia\" href=\"http:\/\/mtu.flinders.edu.au\/events\/Pioneers.cfm\">Videorecording: Irregular Pioneers of South Australia<\/a><br \/>\nThe pioneers of South Australia were not typical British emigrants of the early Victorian Age.  Careful selection was the vital principle.  Yet within this tight plan there were many odd and unplanned immigrants \u2013 irregular pioneers \u2013 arriving in unusual channels. They represent some of the many anarchic elements in immigration history of Australia.  Eric Richards, Professor of History at Flinders University, has chosen a handful of these eccentric lives &#8211; including James Bell, the Scottish Presbyterian, whose recently discovered diary of his voyage of 1838 exposed allegedly scandalous behaviour among some of the early pioneers to South Australia.<br \/>\nEric Richards publishes widely on British history and migration history, notably <em>Britannia\u2019s Children: Emigration from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland since 1600<\/em> (2004). His<em> Destination Australia: Migration to Australia since 1901<\/em> (2008)  won a NSW Premier\u2019s Literary Award, 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hear Eric Richards talk about the &#8216;odd and unplanned&#8217; immigrants in the early days of the colony of South Australia at Flinders&#8217; city campus, Friday 25 November at 6pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-fridays-at-the-library","category-news"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}