Collection: History Support Collection

Australia's experience of war helped shape our sense of ourselves as a nation and as a community with a distinctive ethos & way of life. This book looks at our war experiences, how we can recognise these experiences, and how we can preserve our resources.

A multimedia storytelling project. Eight short films exploring family histories, local stories and personal reflections. The project ran a series of workshops in recording family and local stories.

George Suttor arrived in Sydney, 1800 with a collection of trees and plants including grapevines, apples, pears and hops given to him by Sir Joseph Banks. He commenced farming at Baulkham Hills and Bathurst laying the foundations for a great rural industr

Introduces Laos and Cambodia, their people and their leaders to those who only recently discovered them, but who sympathise entirely with their aspirations to build up a new life in peace and free from outside interference or threats of interference.

History of early Australian photography, from the first recorded photograph of 1841 to 1900, when the availability of pocket cameras put photography within the reach of all Australians.

This publication contains photographs of Australian people by Max Dupain and coincides with the exhibition held at the State Library from July 2003 to February 2004.

This biography covers Matthew Flinder's early life and through to his career