Collection: History Support Collection

Explores the development of the district from Watkin Tench to the early 1980s. Commissioned by Council to provide to the diverse population of the Fairfield district 'an understanding of the lives, achievements and disappointments of our pioneers'.

Surveys the characteristics of family life of key groups and exmines the differences between recent & older immigrant groups, choices families are making in response to changing social & economic times and the effect on relationships within the family.

Discover your ancestors' wartime lives, from Army, Navy and Air Force service to evacuees and refugees. Includes women's auxiliary and nursing units, merchant seamen, prisoner-of-war files, civil defence, casualty lists, medals and gallantry awards.

The family in Australia has undergone marked changes in the period since World War II. It remains the cornerstone of community stability and continues to exert a powerful influence in promoting the well-being of Australian society.

This book contains historical photographs of the Blue Mountains, Katoomba, Sydney and the Harbour Bridge by photographer, Harry Phillips (photograph showing Penrith in the background on page 44).

Contains a large collection of fashion drawings dating from the years 1850-1895.

The book follows the career of Charles Chauvel and the films he made over a thirty-year span in the Australian film industry from the 1920s to the 1950s.