helpful in Gidley King’s quest to become governor, following Arthur Phillip and John Hunter. However, King, who organised the re-enactment of the First Fleet voyage for the 1988 bicentenary ...

Captain Arthur Phillip RN was commander of the First Fleet of ... Despite initial misgivings of some about his appointment as NSW governor, Phillip was ideally suited to the position: he was ...

Like a current-day news story, this First Fleet painting records an important and dramatic event. In it we see Governor Phillip, head of the British colony, standing on the beach with a spear through ...

Arthur Phillip believed he could turn a monumental historical negative — 780 criminals exiled from home constructing “a commonwealth of thieves” — into something close to the grand and ...

It marks the day when the First Fleet of 11 British ships sailed into Port Jackson with Governor Arthur Phillip raising the British flag in Sydney Cove on 26 January, 1788. Many Indigenous ...

It marks the day when the First Fleet of 11 British ships sailed into Port Jackson with Governor Arthur Philip raising the British flag in Sydney Cove on 26 January, 1788. Many Indigenous ...