Collection: History Support Collection

Explores the changing nature of Australian cities as human environments, examining how they have evolved and continue to develop in response to economic, social and technological forces.

Decisions made by past government on housing regulations, planning procedures and public rransport have shped today's urban Australia. Urban sprawl leading to inherent car depenedence and placing increasing demand on government sevices

Three essays explore the nature of Australian landscapes, the ways in which we have used and abused them, our attitudes toward them, and the ways we have perceived them. Seven case studies then explore the history of human-environment interactions.

Philip Cox architect and writer on early Australian architecture discusses thirty-four homesteads

Examines the interwar houses in all their many manifestations - from the cosy Californian Bungalow to the Modern Art Deco house of the 1930s. For people who wish to renovate a house from this era, and an account of the cultural history.

An historical account of William Strutt, miniaturist who immigrated to Melbourne Australia in 1850 to try his luck in the Ballarat gold diggings

This book contains extracts from letters, diaries and journals of early European settlers, explorers and government officials regarding vegetation in eastern Australia at the time of European settlement and the changes that occurred with settlement.

This introductory atlas is based on data entirely derived from the 1986 Australian Census In that census, for the first time questions were asked on the use of languages in the home and on ancestry.

Ward contends that many traits we recognise today as distinctly Australian originated in the frontier life of the bushman. The qualities which have been evoked in legend developed and evolved through Australian literature and culture.