Guide to the Letters of Henry Thomas and Horatio Holyoake (as filmed by the AJCP), 1854-1885

Summary

Collection number:

M392

Creator:

Holyoake, Henry Thomas Goves, Holyoake, Horatio, and Holyoake Family

Extent:

6 items

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

For example:- M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February-23 September 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Availability:

Available

Access conditions:

Available for reference.

Background

Content Summary:

Correspondence from Horatio and Henry Holyoake to their brother George and to their mother. The letters, written from Ballarat, Blackwood and Melbourne, describe work and life on the Victorian goldfields and comment on Victorian parliamentarians and politics. They refer to the high standing of G.J. Holyoake in Australia and the support that he had received in the Argus, and contain news of family matters.

Biographical / Historical:

Brothers of George Jacob Holyoake (1817-1906), the English social reformer. In 1854 Henry opened a store at Ballarat and later had a bookshop in Melbourne. In 1863 he was working as a master saddler.

George Jacob Holyoake (1817-1906) was born in Birmingham, the son of a printer. He received a basic education and then worked in the Eagle Foundry. In 1836 he joined the Mechanics Institute and about this time became interested in the ideas of the social reformer Robert Owen (1771-1858). In 1839 he became a lecturer for the Owenite Central Board in Worcester, later moving to Sheffield, Glasgow and London. He edited The Movement (1843-1845) and The Reasoner (1846-1861), expounding his views on cooperation and secularism. In 1849 he established a printing firm with his brother Austin Holyoake. In London he was associated with many reform organisations and was acquainted with Liberal parliamentarians and writers such as John Stuart Mill, G.H. Lewes and Harriet Martineau. Holyoake's later years were mainly devoted to journalism and lecturing on liberalism and the cooperative movement. He presided over the Cooperative Congress in Carlisle in 1887. He was the author of Self help for the people (1858), The history of cooperation (1875) and The origin and nature of secularism (1896).

Horatio Holyoake (1822-1892), one of the brothers of George Jacob Holyoake, emigrated to Australia and worked on the Victorian goldfields in the 1850s. In later years he was a newsagent in Melbourne.

Henry Thomas Groves Holyoake (1831-1881), one of the brothers of George Holyoake, worked as a printer in London before emigrating to Victoria in 1853. He had been active in the Chartist movement in England and in Victoria he was a leading figure in the Ballarat Reform League and the goldfields Reform League. He started a newspaper, the Diggers Advocate Goldfields Weekly. At the time of the Eureka uprising, he was in Bendigo, seeking to raise funds for the Ballarat miners. In later years he was a bookseller and a master saddler in Melbourne.

Related

Existence and Location of Copies:

The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn584717] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.

Existence and Location of Originals:

Co-operatives UK, Manchester.

For further information see National Co-operative Archive (http://www.archive.coop/about-the-archive).

Conditions Governing Access:

Available for Access.

Conditions Governing Use:

Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.

Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

For example:- M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February-23 September 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Location of this collection:

National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

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