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.
www.latrobesociety.org.au & www.foltc.latrobesociety.org.au
Family Life at La Trobe’s Cottage
Letters of Charles La Trobe to Agnes
Letters of Sophie La Trobe to Agnes
The Governor's Arrival on YouTube
Charles Joseph La Trobe and the Port Phillip District/Victoria: Video.
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 further full text articles produced in its journal La Trobeana.
Further internet material:
adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020077b.htm
mwww.portphillippioneersgroup.org.au/the-port-philip-districtv
www.egold.net.au/biogs/EG00016b.htm
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks15/1500721h/0-dict-biogL.html#latrobe1
Dictionary of Australian Biography, corrected version
www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00602b.htm
www.emelbourne.net.au/biogs/EM00930b.htm
e-Melbourne: Encyclopedia of Melbourne
www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/SiteCollectionDocuments/history-city-of-melbourne.pdf
The History of the City of Melbourne
collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/articles/1194 This features a model done of the Cottage and now held at Museum Victoria. For an article on this model, see La Trobeana, 9 (2).
www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/studies/history/history-sd.pdf The History Study Design. See especially pp.83-7, 101.
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. www.htavshop.com.au/product/the-colonial-experience-the-port-phillip-district-victoria-1834-1860/
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 p.101 on the VCE History Study website: www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/studies/history/history-sd.pdf
See also La Trobe Society website Publications.
