Collection: History Support Collection

This book brings to life convict work on rural estates by showing the tools they used on the range of jobs they performed. A practical insight of the day to day working lives of convicts in New South Wales, in particular on Belgenny Farm and Tocal Estate.

This book provides a comprehensive history of the Norfolk Island between its discovery by Captain Cook in 1788 to the closure of the Penal settlement in 1853. It details different stages of the colony's history, including settlement, punishments of convicts, the reformation movement, mutiny's car...

Greeted by Mulgo, the black swan, readers are welcomed to Nura. Journeying through the seasons, Mulgo describes the land, skyscape, birds, animals and totems. It is a gentle guide to how Darug people read the seasons, knowing when it is time to hunt and time to rest. It is also an appeal to remem...

This book provides a historical account of Coonamble from early settlement to the post war period

The historical story of Burke and Wills expedition of 1860

This publication provides information on copyright for the general public, educational institutions and historians.

These books provide a historical account of the Victorian pioneer John Cotton who immigrated to Australia in 1842

Prepared in conjunction with an excursion to Mulgoa and South Creek. The Society acknowledged help of Valerie Cox, Keith Blaxland, Mrs Davey, Mrs Love from the Cottage, E. C. B. MacLaurin (Mamre) and Rev Gowan & A. Thomas (St Mary Magdalene Church)

To form this association was no easy task. It required men of vision men alive to the necessity for local government to become united throughout the length and breadth of Australia in order that we could speak with one united voice in the handling of our many and varied problems.