Collection: Reference

This is a concise but comprehensive guide to help the family historian embark on the search for Australian military ancestors, as well as providing simple overviews of Australia's military history

The Territory Remembers is a program of activities commemorating the the 75th anniversary of the bombing of Darwin and World War II wartime events with a connection to the Northern Territory. This commemorative book provides a contribution to this wartime history of the Northern Territory through...

Examines the work of Australian puppeteers over the last 50 years, with particular emphasis on developments in the 1970s and '80s. Puppet theatre enjoyed a worldwide resurgence in this time but was not well documented.

Between 1788 and 1850, more than 1500 Jewish men and women were either transported to Australia as convicts or arrived as free settlers. This biographical dictionary presents the details of these earliest generation of Jews to settle in Australia

Narratives of over 70 female convicts who came through the penal settlement of Newcastle and into the Hunter region. Includes a database of over 1400 whose presence here appears in the official records, such as Newcastle gaol, female factory, musters. An introduction covering the development of N...