The Eureka Stockade is one of Australia's foundation legends, yet the story has always been told as if half the participants weren't there. 
But what if the hot-tempered, free-spirited gold miners we learned about at school were actually husbands and fathers, brothers and sons? 

What if there were women and children inside the Stockade when the bullets started to fly? 
As Clare Wright reveals, women travelled to the goldfields in their thousands. Many were active in pivotal roles as miners, storekeepers, entertainers and rabble-rousers. And it was in the rebellion itself that the unbiddable women of Ballarat came into their own. So where did they disappear to later, when the legend was being made? The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka is groundbreaking, absorbing, crucially important history. It tells, for the first time, the whole story of the day the Australian people found their voice.