Collection: Reference

All aspects of the Australian past in all its forms - heritage and conservation, archaeology, oral history, family history and histories of place. Articles also available online from Online Resources Search: search Australia NZ Reference centre.

“What are the most precious relics of Australia’s past? Phar Lap’s heart? Ned Kelly’s armour? Nellie Melba’s tiara? Or could it be the stern post of the Endeavour - an amorphous half-rotted log of wood, part of which has actually been taken to the moon. No-one but an Australian could understand t...

Explains how people, places and everyday things have acquired the status of natural icons.

Examines the interwar houses in all their many manifestations - from the cosy Californian Bungalow to the Modern Art Deco house of the 1930s. For people who wish to renovate a house from this era, and an account of the cultural history...

Road transport. Horse-drawn vehicles. Australia, 1805-1930.