Collection: History Support Collection

Letters of Thomas B Watling convict sentenced to Botany Bay for the crime of forgery in June 1789

These letters, ranging from those of convicts writing to their wives in the 1820's, through accounts of the voyage out, and pioneering life in mid-centiry, through love letters, to short stories of success and failure to master the land, to the remarkable family saga (1883-1929) which ends the book.

A collection of letters written by Americans in the war in Vietnam. The criterion for their selection was that they be written by people involved in the war and that their authors had something to say.

A biography of Rachel Henning's life from rural England to the Queensland Outback

This book traces the life of John Piper from the time he arrived in Sydney, Australia in 1792

Collection of personal histories, drawings, quotes and photos created and gathered while an older group of Llandilo community members and a younger group of primary students were exchanging stories about growing up in Llandilo

A biography of Dr.Raghubhai Nayak, teacher and activist, detailing his life from his childhood near Bombay to his career as an educator who founded schools for children in the poorest areas of India.

This book contains the history of Cowra's railways and is a tribute to those who built and worked on the railways at Cowra for the last 100 years.