Collection: History Support Collection

Some Everyday Folk and Dawn is a terrifically funny novel written in a rambling style. The vote has come to women in Australia and in the small town of Noonoon two male candidates have posited themselves, one as the "women's" candidate, the other as the "men's." The women's candidate spends his c...

Critical studies of fictitious voyages to Australia up to 1789

Letters of Rev. Richard Johnson first Chaplain of New South Wales from his work in the colonies

Letters from Sir John and Lady Jane Franklin from 1837-1845. Sir John Franklin immigrated from England and was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania in 1836 and accompanied by his wife reached Hobart in January, 1837

This correspondence of Rev. Samuel Marsden contains important phases of Australian history revealing Marsden's intellectual and moral make-up together with other contemporary notables during this period

This book covers historical schemes for establishing colonies in the South Seas from the days of James I to the year of 1788, when Governor Phillip founded Australia

This book tells the story of Benjamin Singleton and William Parr and other explorers from their journals and letters of the exploration from Windsor to the Hunter Valley in 1817

Traces Irish language words, phrases and references in Australian newspapers, poetry, novels and in Australian English. A detailed glossary of Irish words in Australian writing shows just how important this contribution to Australian English has been.