Collection: History Support Collection

Introduction -- Turmoil and change -- China to Australia -- Indentured labourers -- Chinese immigration -- Immigration - local perceptions --- Local indentured servants and vagrants -- Brushes with the law -- Biographies -- All Saints Cemetery, Parramatta

The Werrington site of the new University of Western Sydney has seen a fascinating progression of Australia's economic, social and recreational history.

An exciting story of the people and events that went to make up the vivid history of the first fifty years of the Shire.

Jeff Edwards is a local author whose book "The Fund" is about the Soh family who for generations, have done whatever they felt necessary to expand their manufacturing business in Hong Kong. Harry Soh is the latest in a long line of obsessed businessmen with no respect for the law. When the murder...

A dramatised documentary about Francis James, one of Australia's most intriguing post war figures. A story about a man who was a journalist, theologian, prankster and a Walter Mitty character.

A conciousness of conservation issues has been produced in Australian stamp design.

The Gallipoli expedition was designed to knock the Turkish Empire out of the First World War and open a supply route to Russia. A detailed description of the planning of the attack and the course of events.

An education resource for secondary school children about the experiences of the Anzacs at Gallipoli in 1915. Incorporates teachers notes and multimedia.