Melbourne’s “Little Lon” has been called the city’s most infamous slum. The community of Little Lon vanished long ago, but its notoriety as a slum persists. This paper challenges the conceptual and methodological underpinnings of such characterizations, and discusses the teamwork between archaeologists and historians whereby the latest phase of excavations at Little Lon in 2002–2004 revealed some of the hidden actualities of this long-misrepresented community.
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Mayne, A. Big Notes from a Little Street: Historical Research at Melbourne’s “Little Lon”. Int J Histor Archaeol 10, 311–322 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-006-0016-0
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