The Commonwealth Block, Melbourne

A Historical Archaeology

By: Tim Murray, Kristal Buckley, Dr Sarah Hayes, Geoff Hewitt, Justin McCarthy

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Paperback | 1 March 2019

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For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, Melbourne's Little Lonsdale Street - locally known as `Little Lon' - was notorious as a foul slum and brothel district, occupied by the itinerant and the criminal. The stereotype of `slumdom' defined `Little Lon' in the minds of Melbournians, and became entrenched in Australian literature and popular culture.

The Commonwealth Block, Melbourne tells a different story. This ground-breaking book reports on almost three decades of excavations conducted on the Commonwealth Block - the area of central Melbourne bordered by Little Lonsdale, Lonsdale, Exhibition and Spring streets. Since the 1980s, archaeologists and historians have pieced together the rich and complex history of this area, revealing a working-class and immigrant community that was much more than just a slum. The Commonwealth Block, Melbourne delves into the complex social, cultural and economic history of this forgotten community.

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' ... the authors provide several different research angles and cover a wide range of topics and themes that revolve around the Little Lon project. The outcome of this book is a detailed synthesis of research addressing a variety of themes that exist within Australian historical archaeology and urban archaeology.' -- Hannah Craig-Ward * Australasian Historical Archaeology *

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