Collection: History Support Collection

Tells the stories of six colonial gardeners and their making of the Australian landscape, The individual stories reveal the nuances in the history of 19th century botany, horticulture and plant collecting

When three Aussie cousins are accidentally transported onto the clouds, James wants to go home, Billy wants to stay and Ruby's stuck in the middle. Landing on Carnival Cloud, they team up with cloud kids, Floss and CJ, who warn them that Bully Boats and Pirate Clouds might stop them from getting ...

This book brings alive the stories of children sent to Australia under the Barnado scheme, by personal reminiscences, official reports, letters, speeches and photographs.

A compelling narrative of the discovery and development of the district of Cobar in Western NSW. The book traces the development of Cobar from the first discovery of copper to the booming days of the Cobar mining industry in the early 20th Century.

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