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Saltbush Shepherds: A History of the BROAD Family in Western Australia, 1852-1988
Guide to Genealogical Sources - Australia and New Zealand
Ships that Passed: The Glorious Era of Travel to Australia and New Zealand
Ipswich Municipal CentenaryRoots and Branches: Ancestry for Australians
Pioneering in the Bellinger Valley [New South Wales, Australia]
General Muster and Land and Stock Muster of New South Wales, 1822
The Story of Hartley and Its Historic Court-House; New South Wales
The MATTNERs in Australia 1839-1980. a History of Pioneer Families and a Record of Their Descendants
Cemeteries in Australia: A Register of Transcripts
Family Names in Australia & New Zealand
The Story of Terrey Hills and Duffy's Forest, 1805-1988
Census of New South Wales, November 1828Australian Migrant Ships: 1946-1977
Australia, The Photographer's View. From the 1850's to the Bicentenary
How to Trace Your Scottish Ancestors: An A-Z Australian Approach
Warragul: Progress Through a Century
Fifty Years of Rotary in Warragul
Forests Old Pastures New: A History of Warragul
The National Honours and Awards of Australia
Shipping Arrivals and Departures, Sydney, 1788-1825Barefoot and Pregnant? Irish Famine Orphans in Australia
A Voyage From Plymouth to Melbourne in 1839. the Shipboard and Early Melbourne Diary
Irish Families in Australia and New Zealand
Leask's Genealogical Guide to Some Australian Families
Gravely Tasmanian: a Friendly Guide to Some Tasmanian Graveyards
Permanent Addresses - Australians Down Under
Maldon, Australia's First Notable Town
Sydney Morning Herald Index: 1831-1842
Index to the Sydney Morning Herald and Sydney Mail
The Great Majority: Obituaries of the Forest Creek Pioneers from the Mt. Alexander MailThe BURKEs of Western Australia
Waggamba Shire Story: A History of the Waggamba Shire
The Pastoral PATTERSONs: The History of Myles PATTERSON and His Descendants 1822-1976
The Story of Petersham: 1793 - 1948
The Banjo of the Bush: The Life and Times of A. B. PATERSON
Wool Past the Winning Post: A History of the CHIRNSIDE Family
Tracing Your Family History in Australia: A Guide to Sources
The Founders of Australia, A Biographical Dictionary of The First Fleet
Gallopers and Gamblers: a Guide to Thoroughbred Racing in Australia
All Worlds Possible: the Domain of the MILLERs of CoolybrownThe Chronicles of Early Melbourne, 1835-1852...
Transportees from Gloucestershire to Australia, 1783-1842
Early Pioneer Families of Victoria and Riverina: A Genealogical and Biographical Record The White Star Journal (Published Weekly on Board the Clipper Ship White Star During a Passage from Liverpool, England, to Melbourne, Australia with 600 Emigrants, in the Year 1855)Pinetrees: Lord Howe Island 1842-1992: A Brief History of the ANDREWS - NICHOLS - KIRBY Families
Constantine, Cornwall to Adelaide, South Australia : the Chegwidden Family and Chegwidden FarmOrder of Australia, 1975-1995: The First Twenty Years
Transportees from Gloucestershire to Australia, 1783-1842
Emigrants from Hamburg to Australia...The BENNETT Family in Australia: 1854-1979
Griffith & District Pioneers: A Biographical RegisterThe History of the Diocese of Goulburn
James and Mary MELVILLE: A History and Record of Their Lives and Descendants, 1838-1978
Australia and New Zealand (on CD)
"Anthony Trollope, the famous English novelist whose books illuminate virtually every aspect of late nineteenth century England also wrote travel books. In 1873 he published Australia and New Zealand. This book includes descriptions of various places in the states of Australia and in New Zealand. These are quite detailed and usually start with the founding or naming of the place, and continue through their early history. A great read for all those interested in early colonial history of Australia and New Zealand."
The Turkish and Yugoslav Press: A Survey of Content and Readership of Ethnic Newspapers in MelbourneCyclopedia of South Australia 1907-09 (on CD)
Western Australia Post Office Directory 1914 (Wise's) (on CD)
South Australia Post Office Directory 1903 (Wise) (on CD)
Founders of Australia and their Descendants (on CD)
Stevens and Bartholomew's New Zealand Directory 1866-67 (on CD)
A Concise History of New Zealand
Light Blue Down Under; the History of Geelong Grammar School
The History of Warrnambool, Capital of the Western Ports of Victoria...
A History of the Geelong Legacy Club 1925-1969
Geelong: Its Advantages and Opportunities
The History Of Geelong And Corio Bay
Spangles & Sawdust: The Circus in Australia
Colonists, Copper and Corn in the Colony of South Australia 1850-51
Marrickville: 75 Years of ProgressAn Early Tasmanian Story. With the OAKDENs, COWIEs, PARRAMOREs, TULLOCHs and HOGGs
A Patchwork Heritage: Thirteen Australian Families
Sydney's Little World of Woolloomooloo
From Woolloomooloo to Eternity: A History of Australian Baptists
The Windsor Group 1935-1945: An Account of Nine Young Sydney Artists Who Painted in Woolloomooloo...
The Family WURST: A Record of the Emigration of the Pioneer Parents Gottlob and Eleonore WURST and Their Children from Silesia, East Germany to South Australia, 1856-1861, and the Participation of Their Families in the Growth and Development of This StateA Military History of Australia
Tin Mosques and Ghantowns: A History of Afghan Camel Drivers in Australia
Black Founders: The Unknown Story of Australia's First Black Settlers
Annals of the STREET Family of Birtley
Sources for South Australian Family History
Church in the Mist: A History of the Parish of the Blue Mountains
Katoomba and Leura, Blue Mountains N. S. W.The Royal Australian Navy: An Illustrated History
Historic Naval Events of Australia Day-By-Day-Ships, Men, Battles and Great Moments
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Some Northern Homes of New South WalesStatesmen & Sailors: Australian Maritime Defence 1870-1920
Spin Me a Dit! Tales of the Royal Australian Navy
For Your Tomorrow We Gave Our Today
Pictorial History: Penrith & St. Mary's
Commemorating the men of the Penrith District who gave their lives in WWII, Korea and Vietnam.Dharug and Dungaree: History of Penrith and St Mary's to 1860
Balmain in Time: A Record of an Historic Suburb & Some of Its BuildingsHalf a Thousand Acres: Balmain: A History of the Land Grant
DEUTSCHER: A Family History, 1848-1986: German Origin, Emigration to South Australia...
New Zealand Coastal Passenger Ships
How to Trace Your Military Ancestors in Australia and New ZealandThe Sea and the Forest: A History of the Port of Rockingham, Western Australia
The Descendants of Rachel HOPKINS (Nee BARLING) Who Came to Australia From England ...
Kangaroo Island Shipwrecks, an Account of the Ships and Cutters Wrecked Around Kangaroo Island
A Colony Detailed: The First Census of Western Australia, 1832
Manuscript Transcript of the Marriage Register, 3 September, 1855 to 17 November, 1873, St. Paul's Church, Redfern, NSW
Canberra, a Scottish-Australian Heritage: The OGILVIE and STUART Families, 1923-1997
Mordecai MacCOBBER: The Story of a Scotch Jew in Australia
A Century of Journalism: The Sydney Morning Herald and its Record of Australian Life, 1831-1931
A History of Scotland and Guide to Tracing Convicts and Immigrants Who Came From Scotland
Victoria Barracks, Sydney: a Pictorial Record and Text
Keilor Pioneers: Dead Men Do Tell Tales
A History of the WOOD Family of Mosman and Turramurra 1910-1958
Researching Family History in the Collections of Auckland City Libraries
Convict Pardons 1 January 1810 - 31 December 1819
Sydney's Jewish Community: Materials for a Post-War (II) History, 1951-1953
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The Old Melbourne Cemetery, 1837-1922
Lucky City: The First Generation at Ballarat, 1851-1901
Ballarat and Western Goldfields Sketchbook
The History of Ballarat; From the First Pastoral Settlement to the Present Time
Ballarat: A Guide to Buildings and Areas, 1851-1940
Goldrush Doctors at BallaaratLECKEY & BRAMMALL Families: Including the Families CHEDZOY, GARRETT, HARBOTTLE, OLDHAM & SMELLIE
Tracing Your Family History Online for Dummies, Australian Edition
A Loftier Race: the ROUGHLEY Family, Pioneers of Dural
The Story of Petersham: 1793 - 1948
Marrickville: Rural Outpost to Inner City
Marrickville: People and Places: A Social History of Marrickville, Newtown, Camperdown, Petersham, Stanmore, St Peters, Tempe & Dulwich HillThe Architectural Character of Glebe, Sydney
The Glebe: Portraits and Places
Taste and Science: The Women of the MacLEAY Family, 1790-1850 Berkeley and Surrounding Districts; Glimpses into the Past and Present IllawarraPaddington: Its History, Trade and Industries, 1860-1910
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Memoirs of Captain Foster FYANS (1790-1870), Recorded at Geelong, Victoria, AustraliaOne Way Passage: Swedish Migrants to Australia in the James Sanderson Archive
Sunrise to Sunrise: the History of St Margaret's Hospital Darlinghurst 1894-1994
Welsh Patagonians: The Australian Connection
A Newspaper History of Australia
Maitland Schooldays
Historic Buildings of Maitland District: Maitland, Morpeth, Raymond Terrace, Stroud and Ellalong AreasMaitland: Hub of the Hunter. Historical Homes and Buildings
Maitland 1863 - 1963Governor Fergusson's Legacy. A History of the Early Days of the Maitland-Kilkerran Districts
The Wealth and Progress of New South WalesWangi Wangi and its People: A Local History
South Folk: The WALLER Family Story
The Darling Downs: A Pictorial History, 1850-1950
Sandstone and Cedar: Early Homes and Settlers on the Darling DownsJoseph HANN & Family Settlement in North Queensland 1861-1871
Settlement of the Colony of QueenslandTom Petrie's Reminiscences of Early Queensland
The Aldine History of Queensland, Illustrated
Lucinda, North Queensland. Yesterday and TodayThe O'TOOLE Wagon Trail: a Queensland Odyssey
Bush-Life in Queensland: Or, John West's Colonial ExperiencesBaptists in the Cradle City: The Story of Parramatta Baptist Church, 1838-1986
The Parramatta Institution & the Black Town: A History
Parramatta. a Town Caught in Time, 1870. Based on the J. K. S. Houison Collection Held By the Society of Australian Genealogists
Parramatta, the Early Years: With Extracts from the Jubilee History of Parramatta, 1911
St. John's Presbyterian Church Elsternwick.. 75th Anniversary. A Brief History 1887-1962...
Struggletown: Public & Private Life in Richmond, 1900
The View from Docker's Hill, at Richmond near Melbourne, 1839-1865
Men and a River: A History of the Richmond River District, 1828-1895
History of Richmond and Recollections From 1898-1920Werribee: The First One Hundred Years
The Galloping Guns of Rupertswood and Werribee Park: A History of the Victorian Horse Artillery
The CARTER Family of WerribeeThe Werribee Steam Ploughs
Doncaster, Templestowe & Warrandyte Since 1837; A Short HistoryThe History of Doncaster and Templestowe
Aborigines of Bulleen; the History of the Wurundjeri Tribe who Inhabited the Area Which Became the City of Doncaster and Templestowe
The HATCH Family in Australia...Searching Overseas: A Guide to Family History Sources for Australians & New Zealanders
St. Albans: The First Hundred Years
The PETERSONs: The Story of a Pioneer Family; 100 Years in New Zealand and AustraliaThis is the Story of Toowoomba's First 100 Years, 1860-1960
Digging for Gold: A Guide to Researching Family & Local History in Victoria's Central GoldfieldsThe Early History of Warwick District, and Pioneers of the Darling Downs
A Melbourne Family: 1848-1948
The FUTTERs of King's School
GOODRICH & CORNEY FamiliesThe Henderson and Inglis Story
The Settlers of West Pennant Hills Valley, 1799 Onwards
Sweet Settlement. The Making of Mackay and the Pioneer Valley 1860-1918The House of LAYCOCK, 1879-1959: A Record of Family Achievement Through Five Generations
Queensland Club 1859-1959
Gather the Fragments: A History of the BAYNES Family of South Australia
The WHITE Family of Beltrees: 150 Years in the Hunter ValleyShips' Deserters, 1852-1900; Including Stragglers, Strays, and Absentees from H. M. Ships
A Soldier in the Family: A Source Book for Australian Military Genealogy: the First Fleet to the Gulf WarSold!
Reminiscences of WhittleseaThe Story of Metung and its First InhabitantsOur Family History: The WILSONs and RICHARDSONs in England, Australia and New Zealand...
Family and Local History Sources in Victoria
Bathurst and Western District Directory and Tourist Guide and Gazetteer 1886-7
The Good Old Days of Molong
Families of Molong and District
Lasting Influences: Memories of Frensham, 1938-1965
Recollections of the South Coast Area of South Australia 1853-1978: A History of the HARDING Family Beginning in England in the Mid-1700's
An Historical Geography of Modern Australia: The Restive Fringe
Sydney Church of England Grammar School Register: 1889-1994
The Sleeping City: The Story of Rookwood NecropolisA Genealogical History of Pioneer Families of Australia
Free Emigrants on the Great Queensland 1875-1993
Australian Sculptors
King's Index to Unclaimed Money and Advertisements for Heirs, Next-of-Kin, Etc.100 Years on Inverlochy. a Brief History of the Lives of Alexander and Jane CHRISTIE and Their Descendants
The 1788-1820 Association's Pioneer Register
The Centenary History of Victoria
Launceston: History of an Australian City Johns's Notable Australians: Who They Are and What They Do Fellows All: The Chronicles of the Bread and Cheese Club MelbourneMelbourne Savages: A History of the First Fifty Years of the Melbourne Savage Club
Bold-Steady Faithful. The History of the 6th Battalion, The Royal Melbourne Regiment, 1854-1993.Directory of Victoria, 1971
Letters from Victorian Pioneers: A Series of Papers on the Early Occupation of the Colony, the Aborigines, etc.Ancestor Treasure Hunt: The POCKLEY Family Descendants in Australia 1842 - 1976
Anzac Memorial Published by the Returned Soldiers Association in Sydney, Australia
General Return of Convicts in New South Wales, 1837
Musters and Lists: New South Wales and Norfolk Island, 1800-1802On the Home Front: Melbourne in Wartime, 1939-1945
Samuel MOTT of Port Fairy: His Background and Descendants
History of West Australia: A Narrative of Her Past, Together with Biographies of Her Leading MenA Genealogical History of Pioneer Families of Australia
Kerr's Melbourne Almanac and Port Phillip Directory for 1841
Deepening Roar: Scotch College, Melbourne, 1851-2001
The LANSDOWN Family in Australia, 1820-1976
An Historical Journal of the Transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk
The Irish in Australia: 1788 to the Present
Shipping Arrivals and Departures, Victorian Ports...
The GOSSEs: An Anglo-Australian Family
On the Banks of the Murrumbidgee River: the Story of the ROCHE Family in Australia
Reminiscences of Australia. Containing 70 Years of His Own Knowledge and 35 Years of His Ancestors (RYAN)
Call of the Highlands. (the Tenterfield Story) 1828-1988
The Convicted Gunsmiths of New South Wales
Watchman Against the World, the Story of Norman McLEOD and His People
Michael HINDMARSH of Alne Bank
John RAGLESS and His Descendants
The Descendants of William Thomas FAIRBURN, (1795-1859)
Southern Capital, Christchurch: Towards a City Biography, 1850-2000
A Garden Century: The Christchurch Botanic Gardens, 1863-1963
More Homes of the Pioneers and Other Buildings: Pen and Wash Drawings
A History of Tara and District 1840 - 1960. With Addenda. ...
To Tara Via Holyhead: Irish Catholic Immigrants in Nineteenth-Century Christchurch
Old Christchurch in Picture and Story
Christchurch: a Pictorial History
Christchurch: A City and Its People
Between the River and the Hills, Waikato County Council, 1876-1976
History and Traditions of the Taranaki CoastThe Mounted Riflemen in Sinai and Palestine. the Story of New Zealand's Crusaders
(1920)Statistics of New Zealand Cricket and Roll of Honour
(1924)The Old Whaling Days
(1913) A History of Southern New Zealand from 1830 to 1840.Maori Wars of the Nineteenth Century
The Spirit of Wharf House. CAMPBELL Enterprise From Calcutta to Canberra, 1788-1930
The Streets of Melbourne: From Early Photographs
Edwardian Melbourne in Picture Postcards
Frontier Territory: The Colourful Story of the Pioneering of North Australia
Croydon Gold. (An Illustrated History of Croydon, North Queensland)
Our War Nurses. the History of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps 1902-1988
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The Body Snatchers the History of 3rd Field Ambulance 1914-18Middle East and Far East. Australia in the War of 1939-1945
Special Australian Supplement to the Illustrated London News
Australian Pictorial Weekly. an Illustrated Newspaper. (in Facsimile)
Pioneers of the Kimberley: the Maggie LILLY StoryTablets of Memory: The Bendigo COHNs and Their Descendants 1853-1989
A DAVEY Family History in Australia 1865-1981Old Tallangatta, a Town to Remember, 1850-1950
The Book of the MacINNESes in Australia
How to Trace Your Convict Ancestors; Their Lives, Times and Records
My Grandfather's House Recollections of an Australian Family
An Ayrshire Family 1526-1900. the McILWRAITHs of Auchenflower, Ayr and Australia
William ROBERTSON, Victorian Pioneer 1837-1890
Kill Or Cure? Lotions, Potions, Characters & Quacks of Early Australia
Flies in the Ointment: Medical Quacks, Quirks and Oddities
A Dictionary of Maori Place Names
Burn to Billabong: MacDONALD Clansfolk in Australia 1788-1988
The Wished-for-Land: the Migration and Settlement of the Manifolds of Western Australia
Tay Valley People in Australia Part 1 Emigrants & Part 2 Convicts
Early History of the Mornington Peninsula Westernport, Franston, Geelong & Queenscliff
VictoriaBinding Ties, an Experience of Adoption and Reunion in Australia
Sons in the Saddle
DURACKWinds of Change One Hundred Years in Widgee Shire
QueenslandThe Town That Saved Queensland
Gympie Queensland 1867 - 1967 a Golden Past, a Golden Future
Queensland Railways: Tours on the North Coast Line, Brisbane to Gympie
A Guide to the Pronunciation of Australian Place Names
Officers of the Western Australian Defence Force 1861-1901
The Brothers TAYLOR: a Tasmanian Maritime HistoryOfficial History of the Otago Regiment, N.Z.E.F. in the Great War 1914-1918
(1922)A Rebel Hand: Nicholas DELANEY of 1798, From Ireland to Australia
The History of the Canterbury Regiment N.Z.E.F. 1914-1919
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The POLLARDs: a Family and Its Child and Adult Companies in New Zealand and Australia 1880-1910Dress and Insignia of the British Army in Australia and New Zealand, 1770-1870
How to Trace Your Family Tree (and Not Get Stuck on a Branch)
Recollections of Squatting in Victoria
Bleasdale 1850-1950: a Centenary History of Bleasdale, Longhornes Creek, South Australia
Carrieton in the Gum Creek Country
From the seller: "A story of one hundred years of the Carrieton District. 1878-1978...(Adelaide, South Australia). With maps, plates, illustrations and photos. End pages show map of Land Owners in 1878 and Land Owners 1978. Wrap around photo scene of Carrieton on both covers."Adelaide. From Colony to Jubilee. a Sense of Difference
Letters from Irish Australia
A Pictorial History of Mareeba
The Story of WybalennaHistoric Sydney as Seen By Its Early Artists
Early and Recent Memoirs of Parramatta, the Cradle of Australia
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Over Cherry Tree Hill: 150 Years of Pioneer SettlementVoyage to Sydney in the Ship, Hillsborough, 1798-1799
Some Houses and People of New South Wales
Finetta: A Family Saga, 1791-1987, with Historical Background: John LEE, Alice NICHOLSON and Some of Their Many Descendants in Australia: Families of Sarah NICKERSON and John NEALE, Elizabeth LEES, James DONAHUE and Benjamin BAKER...
Family History of William and Margaret FORREST: From Their Arrival in Australind, Western Australia, 1842A Roll Of Australian Arms; Corporate And Personal Borne By Lawful Authority
The History of the RICHARDS of the Bombay and the SCOTTs of the Lightning, 1852-1988
Leask's Genealogical Guide to Some Australian Families, Their Antecedents and Genealogies
Relations in Records: A Guide to Family History Sources in the Australian ArchivesGenealogical Research Directory
Australian Biographical and Genealogical Record
Lookin' for Your Mob: A Guide to Tracing Aboriginal Family TreesYou Are What You Make Yourself to Be: the Story of a Victorian Aboriginal Family, 1842-1980
PEPPER FamilyBarney's Hill. St. Columba's and South Perth
Some Early Records of the MacARTHURs of Camden
Army Deserters From H. M. Service. Vol. 1: 1853-1858 Compiled From 'the Victoria Police Gazette' & Other Original Records
Early Hawkesbury Settlers
New South WalesThe Forgotten Pioneers of the Eastern Goldfields
I Heard the Anzacs Singing
1942 memoir.Australian Pioneers and Reminiscences....
Guluguba Pioneers: Stories from a Queensland Rural Community
The History of John and William Stephen BRIMBLECOMBE and Their Descendants, 1858-1980
Their Name Liveth: Some Pictures of Commonwealth War Cemeteries
Musters of New South Wales and Norfolk Island, 1805-1806
Scholars and Gentlemen: A Biography of the MacKERRAS Family
Passengers to Port Phillip from Commonwealth & Foreign Ports 1838-51
Coastal Passengers to Port Phillip, 1841
Coastal Passengers to Port Philip 1839-1844Railways and Pastures: the Australian O'KEEFEs: a Tribute to Their Pioneering Efforts
Pioneer Profiles: the Stories... of Some of Victoria's Early Settlers
From Shamrock to Wattle: Digging Up Your Irish Ancestors
1823 - Before and After: a Story of William Effingham LAWRENCE, Tasmanian Pioneer, and His Family
Think of STEPHEN: a Family Chronicle
The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918
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Devon ShepherdsBULLEY Family, Devonshire (England) and AustraliaBlue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
The Oxford Companion to Australian History
Bridging the Gap. the History of the BAINBRIDGE Family in Australia
The History of the Canterbury Regiment N. Z. E. F. 1914-1919Lincolnshire Links with Australia
The Journals and Diaries (1841-1856) of Revd. John Ramsden WOLLASTON, M. A., Archdeacon of Western Australia, 1849-1856
Edith May 1895-1974. Life in Early Tasmania
CROWDER FamilyYesterday's News: History of the Newspaper Press in New South Wales From 1920 to 1945
Tasmania's North-East, a Comprehensive History of-and Its People
(1928)Tasmanians in the Transvaal War
Warracknabeal. a Wimmera Cemetery
Where They Lie-Early Burials on the Bendigo Goldfields, 1852-1870
The MacARTHURs: a Brief Family History
The PITTY Families in Australia
Historical Records of the Horsham Presbyterian Church
MacRAEs to New Zealand. Genealogies of Clan MacRAE Families in New Zealand Up to 1990
(1928)The Scots in Australia: a Study of New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland, 1788-1900
A Convict Pioneer and His Descendants
Cooper SMITHTasmania's War Record: 1914-1918
Farewell to Old England; A Broadside History of Early Australia.
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The IRWIN Family: Junior South Australian branchOur Home in Australia: a Description of Cottage Life in 1860
Hurricane Lamps and Blue Umbrellas: a History of the Shire of Johnstone to 1973
Volunteers at Heart: Queensland Defence Forces, 1860-1901
Victorian and Edwardian Melbourne from Old Photographs
Convicts Unbound: The Story of the Calcutta Convicts and Their Settlement in Australia
Australian Biographical and Genealogical Record. Series 2, 1842-1899
The Third Fleet Convicts
Colonial Era Cemetery of Norfolk Island
Australia, Britain, and Migration 1915-1940: A Study of Desperate Hopes
"This book is the first systematic study of assisted emigration from Britain to Australia during the inter-war years. It looks at the British and Australian politicians and bureaucrats involved in the program and the half-million migrants who uprooted themselves. Both governments used migration to meet their different needs, with little regard for the migrants themselves. Not only is the book an important study of imperial relations in the 1920s and 1930s, it describes an important and overlooked aspect of Australian political and social history."Convict Maids: The Forced Migration of Women to Australia
"Looking at female convicts transported from Britain and Ireland to New South Wales between 1826 and 1840, this text refutes the notion that these women were unskilled prostitutes and criminals, arguing that in fact, they were skilled, literate, young and healthy."
My Hand Will Write What My Heart Dictates: The Unsettled Lives of Women in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand As Revealed to Sisters, Family and FriendsThe Origins of Irish Convict Transportation to New South Wales
Australian Genesis: Jewish Convicts and Settlers 1788-1860
"This study explores the pre-history of Irish convict transportation to New South Wales that began with the Queen in April 1791. It traces earlier attempts to revive the Trans-Atlantic convict trade and frustrated efforts by Irish authorities to join in the Botany Bay scheme after 1786. The nine Irish shipments to North America and the West Indies are described in detail for the first time, including the dramatic outcomes in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and the Leeward Islands which eventually forced the Home Office to find space for Irish convicts on the Third Fleet. These events are related against the background of Dublin's burgeoning crime rate in the 1780's, the critical insecurity of its prison system and the troubled political relationship between Ireland and Britain."
"This is a new updated and expanded edition of the first and most comprehensive account of the early Jewish settlement of Australia. Its span is now extended to include the gold rush era, a period from which many Jewish-Australian families are descended. This is an enthralling book in its own right. Intensely human, it is also an important work of scholarship which illuminates many little known corners of Australian history and casts a fresh light on the popularly accepted versions of some well-known incidents."Private Wars: Personal Records of the Anzacs in the Great War
"Greg Kerr retraces the journey of Australian and New Zealand troops from Gallipoli in 1915 to the final penetration of the Hindenburg Line in 1918. While covering the general strategic course of the war, the author focuses on the human side of the war. Similar to his acclaimed Lost Anzacs: The Story of Two Brothers, Kerr follows the experiences of roughly sixty figures--officers, privates, nurses--and captures their experiences through judicious and uncensored extracts from their letters and diaries. The book also includes numerous photos, many previously unpublished. The combination of photos, letters, and historical background make for an unforgettable account of what the war was really like on the ground."George Barrington's Voyage to Botany Bay: Retelling a Convict's Travel Narrative of the 1790s
The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
"An extraordinary volume--even a masterpiece--about the early history of Australia that reads like the finest of novels. Hughes captures everything in this complex tableau with narrative finesse that drives the reader ever-deeper into specific facts and greater understanding. He presents compassionate understanding of the plights of colonists--both freemen and convicts--and the Aboriginal peoples they displaced."A Concise History of Australia
"Australia is the last continent to be settled by Europeans, but also sustains an ancient people and culture. Now, realizing that colonization began with invasion, present-day Australians are coming to terms with their past and recognizing the need to redefine Australia in a changing world. This is the most up-to-date single-volume Australian history available. Drawing on the latest research, it takes up present concerns with indigenous issues, the environment and the republic question. Essential reading for residents and visitors alike."
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