Collection: History Support Collection

The Gallipoli expedition was designed to knock the Turkish Empire out of the First World War and open a supply route to Russia. A detailed description of the planning of the attack and the course of events.

An education resource for secondary school children about the experiences of the Anzacs at Gallipoli in 1915. Incorporates teachers notes and multimedia.

This book contains illustrations, maps, charts and plans of shipping of destinations around the world (Hawkesbury River, Windsor mentioned on page 66)

This publication provides Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander recollections and experiences of the development of UWS. It focuses on the interaction between UWS and the local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander local communities, and of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples within the...

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.