Subject guides: History: Australian & Pacific History

Reference works

ADB : Australian Dictionary of Biography
Australia's pre-eminent dictionary of national biography. There are over 10,000 scholarly biographies of significant Australians who died before 1980.
Cambridge History of Australia
Essential reference source for the History of Australia
Dictionary of Sydney
Based on a permanent historical digital repository, the Dictionary of Sydney aims to gather resources on every aspect of human habitation in the greater Sydney area from the first arrival of people to the present.
A History of Aboriginal Sydney
Intended for use in schools, this site also provides information, historical posters, interactive maps and videoed interviews.

Make sure you try the other databases listed under General History too!

Australian encyclopaedia.
Terrey Hills, N.S.W. : Australian Geographic Pty Ltd, 1996. 6th ed.
Australian joint copying project handbook
Canberra: National Library of Australia and the Library of New South Wales, 1972-1980, 1991+
Index to papers on Australia held overseas.
Australians, a historical library
[v.1] Australians to 1788 -- [v.2] Australians 1838 --[v.3] Australians 1888 -- [v.4] Australians 1938 --[v.5] Australians from 1939 -- [v.6] Australians a historical atlas -- [v.7] Australians, events and places -- [v.8] Australians a historical dictionary --[v. 9] Australians a guide to sources -- [v.10] Australians, historical statistics -- [v.11] Australians, the guide and index -- [v.12] Australians 1988.
Bibliography of Australia by John Alexander Ferguson
Canberra : National library of Australia, 1941-1969, 1975-1977.
v. 1. 1784-1830 -- v. 2. 1831-1838 -- v. 3. 1839-1845 -- v. 4. 1846-1850 -- v. 5. 1851-1900 A-G --v. 6. 1851-1900 H-P -- v. 7. 1851-1900 Q-Z.
Checklist of nineteenth century Australian colonial sources : censuses, blue books and statistical registers
Call Number: Storage DF 138532
Kensington, N.S.W.: History Project Inc., 1983.
Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture
Canberra : Aboriginal Studies Press for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 1994.

Informit Online
Over 80 Australian databases of scholarly research, covering a wide range of subjects. Major databases including APA-FT (Australian Public Affairs - Full Text). Terms & conditions
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AHB: Australian Heritage Bibliography via Informit Online
AHB provides access to published and unpublished material on Australia's natural and cultural environment.
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APA-FT: Australian Public Affairs Full Text via Informit Online (1978 - present)
The place to start for coverage of Australia's political, economic, social and cultural affairs. Broad-ranging coverage also includes Australian humanities and social sciences, current affairs, and law.
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Trove
Trove is a discovery portal focused on Australia and Australians. It supplements what search engines provide, incorporating images, manuscripts and archives, historical newspapers, sound and more. It covers both historical and contemporary material.
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AIATSIS Collections Catalogues
Collection contains more than 1 Catalogues for million items, including books, audio, photographic, manuscript, moving image and art and object material, related to Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and histories. Not all of these are in full text online. Check Library Search for University of Sydney holdings.

Anthropology Plus via Ebsco (late 19th century - present)
A key resource for the fields of social, cultural and linguistic anthropology, ethnology and related disciplines; as well as archaeology, prehistory, history and culture
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