Focusing on different occupations, the series Colonial People explores aspects of everyday life, job responsibilities and social activities in colonial Australia. Winner of the Primary Student Resource: Arts/Science/Humanities The Australian Educational Publishing Awards. Key features include extracts from a range of primary and secondary sources, 1st-person narrative features, illustrated 'A Day in the Life' case studies, and hands-on projects. Topics covered include convict labourers, squatters, gold diggers and domestic servants.In Domestic Servants travel back to the 1870s and meet Maude, a 14-year-old housemaid in a grand house in Sydney. Interesting and engaging reading.