Society and Culture History

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Account of a Voyage around the World - English translation of the nineteenth century Welsh Work "Hanes Mordaith o amgylch y Ddaear". Includes the original Welsh text.

Anne-Maree Whitaker - Anne-Maree Whitaker is an independent professional historian. She has published widely in Australian Catholic and Irish Australian topics. Her latest book is about Joseph Foveaux.

An Anthology of the Discovery of Australia - What the first visitors saw and why they attached names to coastal features. Includes quotes, with comments in italics, from their diaries, especially from Matthew Flinders.

Australia, Australians & Us. - A lighthearted, Historical, Geographical and Cultural look at Australia and events that shaped Australia into what it is today, designed for non Australians and those foreign to our shores.

Australia Beyond the Fatal Shore - Companion website to the PBS series written and hosted by Robert Hughes. The website introduces you to some of the individuals Robert Hughes talk with and about about as he explores the history and culture of Australia.

Australian Australia - Historical and cultural information about Australia and Australians.

Australian Explorers - General information on eleven different explorers for primary school children.

Australian High Court Judges from Federation - Timeline of Judges, plus selected verdicts.

Australian History - Overview from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, with links to cited attractions.

Australian History on the Internet - Part of the National Library of Australia site, this site includes many interesting links, including Australian historical documents online.

Australian Medical Pioneers Index - A comprehensive biographical database of Australian doctors to 1875. Includes background material on medical history, colonial medical life, medical qualifications and timeline

Australian Studies Net: History resources - Many Australian history resources, lists overseas resources as well.

Australia's Cultural Network - This site includes interesting articles and links relevant to Australia's history. Take the history path finder to narrow the items down to ones related to history.

Blue Mountains History Plaza - History of Australia's Blue Mountains. Historic photos & news articles, essays, related links & multi-domain regional search facility.

"Charcoal" Williams - Gold in Australia - From Wales at the end of the 18th Century, the story follows "Charcoal" Williams and other free settlers, Irish political prisoners and convicts to New South Wales.

Convict Creations - Historical background on Australian convict culture, information on a selection of artists, and convict-inspired crafts.

Documenting a Democracy - Australia's story - Through this site you can see some of the documents that helped create the Federation of Australia.

The Flight of Ducks - An award winning Australian on-line documentary based on a camel expedition to Central Australia in January 1933. Contains cinefilm, photographs, journals, Aboriginal objects and on-line discussion.

German-speakers in Australia - History of German-speakers in Australia, of their immigration and of their contribution to Australia.

Gold and Gumboots - A History of Staghorn Flat, Victoria - A book by Ian Touzel featuring an account of squatters, gold, selectors, innovation, faith, and rural life with color and black and white photos. Contains order information.

Greycliffe; Stolen Lives - A biographical account of Sydney's 1927 Tahiti-Greycliffe Disaster.

History of Australia - General history of Australia, from the World History Archives.

History of Morse in Australia - A fascinating look into the early days of wireless telegraphy in Australia with photographs from the Overseas Telecommunications Commision archives

Indigenous Peoples: the Aboriginal Peoples of Australia - Illustrated and carefully annotated guide to links focused specifically on the history, lore, sacred traditions, arts, and beliefs of the Aboriginal Peoples of Australia by Kathleen Jenks, Ph.D.

LASSETERIA. - Encyclopedia and commentary on the search for Harold Lasseter and his lost gold reef.

Long Road from Tipperary, Ireland to Gundagai, Australia. - Story follows Michael Keefe, Irish Bounty Immigrant to New South Wales. It follows him and his family through 90 years of Australia's growth to Federation, union movement, political parties, war and 1930 Depression.

Nineteenth Century Exploration of Australia - Features an 1893 map of explorers' routes, plus links to online biographies of the explorers, and the text of a book chapter on Australian exploration by naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace.

The Public History Site - A site offering information, contacts and resources for historians working in the public sphere. Contains a wide range of links.

Radical Tradition - Articles on "the history of working class struggle and anarchism in Australia".

Rare Maps Digitisation Project - A selection of rare maps from the National Library of Australia.

Register of Committee Reports - An index of reports from committees of the House of Representatives and Joint Committees from 1970 to 1996.

Restoration of Mawsons Huts - Site detailing the history and restoration of Antarctic explorer Douglas Mawson's huts.

Ruyton Girls' School: Celebrating Australian Federation - A collection of links about civics and citizenship and Australian nationhood themes.

SNOWY - The Making of Modern Australia - History of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme covering social, political, cultural and industrial aspects.

Timeline of Aboriginal Resistance - Short descriptions of incidents of aboriginal resistance to European invasion.

Totalisator history a world's first - The history of the invention of the world's first automatic totalisator in Australia in 1913 by George Julius.

West Gate Bridge Memorial - Memorial site dedicated to workers on the West Gate Bridge which collapsed during construction on October 15 1970