Collection: History Support Collection

George Augustus Robinson's journey into South-Eastern Australia, 1844 with George Henry Haydon's narrative of the same journey covering New South Wales and Gippsland, Victoria

This fully annotated edition identifies the works original textual sources and illuminates its complex publishing history. It also focuses on contemporary debates concerning penal settlement, punishment, racial encounters.

A biography of George Caley came to the colony of New South Wales in 1800 as a natural history collector for Sir Joseph Banks and stayed until 1810. He is probably best known as the eccentric leader of a failed expedition to cross the Blue Mountains.

The story of a woman whose impoverished Cornwall childhood led to a life of outlaw daring and thievery, then to harsh imprisonment and exile. Illuminates the horrors of transportation and hardships of the early penal settlement.

Depicting scenes, cities, industries and interesting phases of Australian life, with concise literary descriptions. A reproduction of the original 1897 edition

Six ordinary Australians agree to challenge their preconceived notions about refugees and asylum seekers by embarking on a confronting 25-day journey.

This booklet covers a history of St. Stephen after its Bi-Centenary between 1837-1987