Collection: History Support Collection

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.

Tender poems on the death of his wife, witty Philip Larkin apercus, meditations on the spiritual need of Australians for Europe, hard-eyed satire as a political fixer dismisses as out-of-date the instruments of torture in the Tower of London: John Upton's range is broad and his poetic skills acco...