Subject guides: History: Australia & Pacific History

Full text resources for Australia & Pacific History - require a login

University of Sydney Digital Collections
Unique material including Honi Soit Online, First Fleet and early Settlement Journals, the Cosme Colony Collection and more.
Australian Studies Resources via SETIS
Full text of Australian literary and historical texts via SETIS at the University of Sydney .
Early Experiences in Australasia Primary Sources and Personal Narratives 1788-1901 vol 1
First person accounts, in diaries and letters, plus other primary sources and essays, covering the arrival of the first settlers in Australia and New Zealand through to Australian Federation in 1901.
Informit e-Library (1998-present)
An e-press for Australian and Asia-Pacific information and provides access to full content from a range of monographs and books, conference proceedings, research papers and reference materials.

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MacquarieNet: Australia's Online Reference Library
Includes interactive maps of Indigenous Australia and census data. Although primarily aimed at school students, it contains numerous Australian Studies resources.

AUSCHRON : Chronology of Australian Historic and Current Events via Informit Online (1992-present)
Provides a listing of significant events in Australian history with emphasis on current happenings, and covering all topics from politics and law to Terms & conditions

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TVNews via Informit Online (September 2007 - 2012)
TVNews indexes Australian television news, current affairs programs, and selected documentaries from the free-to-air networks and links to the video files.

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Provided access is restricted to University of Sydney staff and students, the material is used for educational purposes and the Copyright Part VA Warning Notice is displayed, possible uses of TVNews items include:
lecturers downloading a news items to a workstation and showing this in a class or tutorial
lecturers loading a number of news stories into a Learning Management System such as Blackboard or WebCT and making these available online to students
students viewing the items online or saving a copy on their workstation for later viewing

Australian Libraries and Archives

National Library of Australia
The Library holds the greatest collection in the world of material relating to Australia and the Australian people. Look here for their free digital collections.

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If you are a resident of Australia, apply for a borrower's card; it will allow you to access their subscription online resources https://www.nla.gov.au/getalibrarycard/.
National Archives of Australia
"The memory of our nation" – The Archive collects and preserves Australian Government records that reflect Australian history and identity.
State Library of NSW - Online Collections
An ongoing digitisation program to improve access to significant parts of the State Library's extensive collections.

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If you are a resident of NSW, apply for a borrower's card; it will allow you to access their subscription online resources https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/research-and-collections/get-library-card.
State Records of NSW
Contain the archives of the NSW State Government. Material is in print and digital format.
State Library of Victoria
These are just some of their popular digitised collections
State Library of Queensland
The Library has collects, preserves and shares Queensland's collective memory.
Libraries Tasmania
Tasmanian archives and heritage - some of it digitised
State Library of South Australia
Digital collections including oral histories, letters & diaries, manuscripts, audio...
State Library of Western Australia
Indigenous stories, colonial diaries, migrant stories are part of their digital collections

Primary Sources in Print

The Library contains a complete set of Australian Government Publications. They are comprehensively listed on the Government & International Relations Subject Guide. It also a lists more recent electronic materials.

Historical records of Australia by Fredrick Watson, ed.
ser. I. Governors' despatches to and from England, 1788-1848. 1914-1925. (26 v.)
ser. III. Despatches and papers relating to the settlement of the states. 1921-1923. (6 v.)
ser. IV. Legal papers. 1922. (1 v.)
Index to British parliamentary papers on Australia and New Zealand, 1800-1899.
Documents on Australian foreign policy, 1937-49
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.
Maori is my name: historical Maori writings in translation by John Caselberg (ed)
Publication Date: 1975
An Annotated bibliography of the southwest Pacific and adjacent areas by Allied Geographical Section, Southwest Pacific Area.
Publication Date: 1944-1945.
v. 1. The Netherlands and British East Indies and the Philippine Islands -- v. 2. The mandated territory of New Guinea, Papua, the British Solomon Islands, the New Hebrides and Micronesia -- v. 3. Malaya, Thailand, Indo China, the China coast and the Japanese Empire --v. 4. Supplement to vols. 1, 2 and 3.

Primary Sources on Microform

Colonial microfiche
Publications and statistical tables produced by the six colonial statistical bureaus. The contents are listed in "Catalogue of Australian statistical publications, 1804-1901".

These are just some of the rich archival materials reproduced onto microfilm and fiche available in the collection.

Historical microfiche series : statistical publications since Federation
Contains publications released by the Central Office of the Australian Bureau of Statistics since 1901 to 1983.
Other Australian Bureau of Statistics Publications are online
National statistical reports : Pacific.
Call Number: Fisher Audiovisual Microform 319 1
Includes Blue Books N.S.W. 1822-1894 ; Blue Books Van Diemen's Land 1822-1847
Sand's Sydney & NSW directory
Each issue of the Directory lists householders, businesses, public institutions and officials of the entire Sydney area for 1858/9- 1861; 1863-1864; 1865-1871; 1873-1900; 1901-1923; 1924-1932/33. This information is also available as an "additional database" on the PCs in Fisher Library.

Full text free websites for Australia & Pacific History

Trove
Gateway to Australian and online resources including details and some full text of books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives, etc. Hosted by the National Library of Australia, but most Australian libraries contribute to the contents.

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Australian Newspapers
Freely available resource that is part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program in TROVE

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Australian Periodical Publications
A project of the Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project (ACDP), it provides web access to digital copies of Australian serials first published between 1840 and 1845.
Australian Biography Online
A web based biographical resource profiling major Australians. The project draws from material collected for Film Australia’s Australian Biography TV series.
ADB - Australian Dictionary of Biography
Australia's pre-eminent dictionary of national biography. In it you will find concise, informative and fascinating descriptions of the lives of significant and representative persons in Australian history.
Beyond 1914 - The University of Sydney and the Great War
An extensive, searchable database of biographies and archival information about members of the University community involved in the First World War.
Australian War Memorial
The AWM combines a shrine, a world-class museum, and an extensive archive. Its mission is leading remembrance and understanding of Australia’s wartime experience.
Our/Your War Stories
Part of the State Library of New South Wales collection of resources on the Great War including diaries, letters, maps, photographs, artworks, posters and newspapers
Documenting a Democracy: Australia's Story
Maintained by the National Archives, this searchable site provides full text primary sources from Australia's foundation to today.
First Legislative Council Archive
The First Legislative Council archive contains documents from 1824 to 1855. It includes tabled papers, SMH newspaper reports of debates, and documents relating to the administration of the First Council (classified as "non-tabled papers")
Documents from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Chronological listing of documents for 1937 to 1949, with later papers organised by theme.
Papers Past
A New Zealand resource. Full text of over 60 newspapers and periodicals dating between 1839 to 1945.
Records of the Australasian Federal Conventions of the 1890s
Full text records of the debates from the Australasian Federal Conventions of 1891 and 1897/8.

Free links for Australia & Pacific History

These are gateways linking to other sites.

Aboriginal History
Part of the larger WWW Virtual Library Aboriginal Studies guide. The site provides links to documents, projects and archives.
Government Documents - Australia
Created by the University of Sydney Government Publications Librarian. This site links to official government webpages, legislation, specialist sites and a list of printed library materials.
PANDORA history collections
PANDORA, Australia's Web Archive, is a growing collection of Australian online publications, established initially by the National Library of Australia in 1996, and now built in collaboration with nine other Australian libraries and cultural collecting organisations.

Full text free websites for Pacific History

Te Papa Online collections
Te Papa Tongarewa, the Museum of New Zealand online collection of 800,000 artworks, taonga and photographs.
National Library of New Zealand
Image search and Papers Past allows you to browse and search half a million digital images and newspapers.
Digitised Pacific Collections: global collections
A gateway to collections of digitised documentary materials relating to the history, culture and people of the Pacific region.
ENZ Early New Zealand Books
This collection aims to provide a complete online full-text and keyword-searchable corpus of books about New Zealand which were published in the first two-thirds of the nineteenth century
New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
Comprises significant New Zealand and Pacific Island texts and materials held by Victoria University of Wellington Library.
Hawaiian and Pacific Images
Reproductions of book illustrations housed in the University of Hawaii Manoa rare collection. These include plates from the 18th/19th century voyaging accounts, early 20th century ethnographic accounts and other texts.
University of Hawaii Manoa Digital Collections
Collections include Asia, Hawaiian, Multi-Subject, Pacific, Rare/Archives and Russian; with sub-collections on Micronesian traditional navigation, anthropology slides and even karate museum archives.