The Ballad of 1891 by Helen Palmer and Doreen Bridges

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Doreen Bridges (nee Jacobs) came to my attention through her setting of 'Freedom's on the Wallaby' by Henry Lawson. Some interesting background for this song here:
https://www.labourhistory.org.au/hummer/the-hummer-vol-11-no-1-2016/a-movement/

The song was not written for 'Reedy River', as erroneously stated on MainlyNorfolk here:
https://mainlynorfolk.info/trevor.lucas/songs/theballadof1891.html

Doreen and Helen also wrote 'Ballad of Eureka':

Both of these songs were written a few years before the 100th anniversary of the Eureka Stockade, mentioned in this 1952 article:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/206680478

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