Collection: History Support Collection

Referencing about 500 source documents, the beginnings of European settlement in Australia, from the founding of the first township at Sydney Cove to the economic crisis of the early 1840s, is surveyed. Aboriginal sections have been annotated separately

About 500 documents are used to survey Australian history from the economic crisis of the early 1840s to the beginnings of the long boom of the 1870s. Covers major events, developments and controversies in the nation's economic, social and cultural life

Surveys Australian history, from the start of the economic boom of the 1870s to the establishment of the Federal Government in 1900. About 500 documents cover major events, developments and controversies in the nation's economic, social and cultural life

There remains within the Cumberland Plain, and nearby areas, rural landscapes and landscape features of cultural value on account of their ability to demonstrate important aspects of early European occuaption.

This guide contains facsimiles of naturalizations and records of citizenship rights granted to aliens of non-British origin between 1834 and 1903.