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Articles: Colonial Australia

‘Ripe for a republic’: British radical responses to the eureka stockadeFootnote*

Pages 69-90 | Published online: 29 Sep 2008

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  • * The quotation is from a letter in the Birmingham Journal, 26 May 1855, supplement: 2. I am grateful to Alex Tyrrell, Glen Barclay and Suzanne Pickering for comments on a draft of this article. My research is funded by the Australian Research Council.

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