Collection: History Support Collection

In the Hall of Memory at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra there are 15 stained-glass windows. Each shows a figure dressed in military uniform, and under each figure is a word which describes a quality displayed by Australians during wartime. One window features an infantryman wearing a tre...

This book tells the story of some of the Aboriginal families from the Sydney region including the Darug people and their neighbours.

An historical account of the activities of Charles Darwin and Thomas Henry Huxley during their visit to Australia

Techniques and advice contained in this book will help you to date, perhaps identify, those nineteenth and early twentieth century photographs in your collection and put them in their historical and social context.

This book provides insights into the life of Mary Reibey who arrived in Sydney in 1792, being transported for horse stealing at the age of thirteen. She later married a free settler and upon his death pursued his business interests with vigour and skill.

An detailed account by CIA chief strategy analyst Frank Snepp of the events which unfolded in the final stages of the Vietnam War in 1975