Collection: History Support Collection

Three essays explore the nature of Australian landscapes, the ways in which we have used and abused them, our attitudes toward them, and the ways we have perceived them. Seven case studies then explore the history of human-environment interactions.

Philip Cox architect and writer on early Australian architecture discusses thirty-four homesteads

Examines the interwar houses in all their many manifestations - from the cosy Californian Bungalow to the Modern Art Deco house of the 1930s. For people who wish to renovate a house from this era, and an account of the cultural history.

An historical account of William Strutt, miniaturist who immigrated to Melbourne Australia in 1850 to try his luck in the Ballarat gold diggings

This book contains extracts from letters, diaries and journals of early European settlers, explorers and government officials regarding vegetation in eastern Australia at the time of European settlement and the changes that occurred with settlement.

This introductory atlas is based on data entirely derived from the 1986 Australian Census In that census, for the first time questions were asked on the use of languages in the home and on ancestry.

Ward contends that many traits we recognise today as distinctly Australian originated in the frontier life of the bushman. The qualities which have been evoked in legend developed and evolved through Australian literature and culture.

The Charter is a distillation of best practice conservation principles, based on the consensus of a broad range of experts. It aims to assist everyone with an interest in natural places to establish their natural heritage values and manage them.

The paintings range from the first known oil painting in Australia by convict Louis Watling to the work of artists such as Arthur Streeton, Tom Roberts, Frederick McCubbin and Charles Conder