This report, prepared for the Bathurst Regional Council, provides a thematic overview of Bathurst's history.

Robin McLachlan, 'The New Country: A Thematic History of the Bathurst Regional Council Local Government Area' (Times Past Productions, 2007)

The establishment of the colonial settlement of Bathurst on Wiradjuri country in 1815 and the expansion of the colony over the Bathurst Plains led to war between the Wiradjuri people and the colonisers in the 1820s. Bathurst and the neighbouring settlements were administered by Commandants, who tried various and unsuccessful...

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Robin McLachlan, 'The New Country: A Thematic History of the Bathurst Regional Council Local Government Area' (Times Past Productions, 2007)

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