Collection: History Support Collection

This work explores Australias national origins. Starting from the perspective of the individual colonies as they made their way towards membership of the Australian Commonwealth in 1901.

A history of the Emu Plains convict farm from 1819-1832. The history has a particular interest in describing what life was like on the farm and the background of the superintendents and the principal men who worked there.

The years spanning 1880 to 1940 brought many great and lasting changes to the Australian way of life. These were the years between the gold rush and the Second World War, when Australians went from long skirts to short, from kerosene lamps to electric lights, from horse-drawn vehicles to motor c...

Change and challenge is an historical record of the efforts of the common people to develop the area of the present Municipality of Canterbury since the foundation of the NSW colony.

A reminder of the achievements of working men and women standing up for each other, their own and other people's rights and communities

The 1976 Census of Population and Housing aimed at enumerating every person who spent Census night, 30 June 1976 , in Australia and every private dwelling whether occupied or unoccupied.