Collection: History Support Collection

This program contains information commemorating the 50th anniversary of the end of World War 2.

Gives a graphic and summarised conception of Australasian history and life from the days of the earliest Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, English and French navigators to the 1880's.

It examines the changing nature of Australia's major cities from a geographical perspective, and discusses the current issues in urban policy.

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