Collection: History Support Collection

Contains text commentary on the various colonies in Australia and full page colour illustrations with commentary.

A biography on Jorgen Jorgensen from his boyhood in Copenhagen to imprisonment as a convict in Van Diemen's Land.

Ben Suc was a relatively prosperous farming village 30 miles from Saigon on the edge of the Vietcong stronghold.On 8 January 1967 American forces launched a surprise attack on the village with a devastating outcome.

Roads are the vital connections that bind communities together, ensuring social cohesivensess and facilitating commerce. This book focuses on the role of roads in the history of NSW from the arrival of Europeans in 1788.

A biography of William Ferguson providing a detailed history of racial politics between the years 1900 and 1950

This book provides detailed election results for each candidate together with his part affiliation and the percentage of the total vote received.

Bertrand Russell was among the first in the West to raise his voice against the war in Vietnam. This book guides the reader through a land of napalm & 'lazy dogs', gas & chemicals, corruption & concentration camps, from an independant but highly committed position.

Looks at: Australia's early volunteering of combat troops; Australia's urging of the Americans to escalate the war by bombing North Vietnam; and Australia's indifference to the wishes of the South Vietnamese government.