Hargraves discovers gold -- Growth of Newcastle -- Broken Hill and silver -- Suggestions for dramatisation of civics -- Magna Charta -- Simon de Montfort -- The peasants' revolt -- The five members -- The great plague -- The revolution of 1688 -- The French revolution -- The industrial revolution -- Stephenson and railways -- The story of steamships -- The war of American Independence -- The Indian mutiny
Summary
"These short dramas have been written for the purpose of allowing the characters of the past to "live" in the play of the child ... they are intended to supplement the ordinary history lesson, and do not require weeks of rehearsing." -- Introduction
Notes
Stamped on cover: "by E.D. Eades and M.J. Mow"
"Founded on the syllabus lessons of the Department of Education."
