Collection: History Support Collection

History of settlement in the Hawkesbury between 1794 and 1822. Section section includes a substantial list of settlers including many from the Castlereagh, Agnes Banks, Londonderry and Berkshire Park area.

History of the South Creek area and the settlement later known as St Marys

History of land settlement and settlers in the Eastern Creek region from 1810. Includes information on Erskine Park, Colyton, Minchinbury, Wallgrove, Shepherd's nursery at Chatsworth

Traces the emergence of ecological understandings in Australia, constructing a social history focusing on various fields in the arts, sciences, politics and public life.

This book presents a wealth of detailed information with a picture of the Indo-Chinese peoples and their way of life.

China's capital cities broken down by region: Southern (Hangchow, Foochow, Canton, Kweilin, Kweiyang, Yunnanfu), Yangtze (Soochow, Nanking, Anking, Nanchang, Wuchang, Changsa, Chengtu), Yellow River(Lanchow, Sian, Kaifeng,).

This book documents the often controversial development of water policy and administration in New South Wales. This includes the origins of water usage from the ingenious hydraulic systems of the Aborigines to the discovery by the First Fleet in 1788.

The atlas is a comprehensive compendium of New South Wales political history over 150 years. Electoral mapping is recreated from original sources and it documents voting systems and results since the introduction of responsible government in 1856.