Please contact the Family History Desk for access details.
The collection contains most of the runs of newspapers published in the UK since 1800. The first stage of this project focused on runs published before 1900 and titles from cities such as Birmingham, Derby, Manchester, Nottingham, Norwich, Leeds and York, along with local titles from London boroughs. Material from the 20th century, right up to the 1950s, is continuing to be added.
A complete library of legal principles from Thomson, The Laws of Australia covers over 320 topics, across 36 broad subject areas, and every Australian jurisdiction.
This database contains a selection of unreported judgments from the High Court, Federal Court, and State Supreme Courts. Document supply NOT available.
The Family Records Unit at Aboriginal Affairs was set up to help people from New South Wales to access government records about themselves and their family.
They also give researchers permission to access the Aborigines Protection Board and Aborigines Welfare Board records.
These records include details of children removed as well as detailed information on all aspects of life on stations and reserves, such as financial statements, salary and employment details, tenancy agreements and applications to leave the reserve.
Australian Museum website looking at indigenous peoples long association with the Habour and looks at the wildlife and natural environment including placenames, clans, language and foods.
Digitised collection of protection reports from bodies such as the Aborigines Welfare Board, and legislation that covered the 'protection' of Aboriginal peoples in all states.
This site provides information on how to gain access to records created by the Board for the Protection of Aborigines (1883-1940) and the Aborigines Welfare Board (1940-1969).
It also lists material created by other NSW government agencies that contain significant mention of Aboriginal people (eg. the Aboriginal Lands Trust, Department of Community Services and NSW Police).
A study resource for Shakespeare's plays, sonnets and other poems, including plot summaries, essays, character analyses, quotes, biography, and information about the Globe Theatre.
Access Canberra maintains an Historic marriage index that provides limited information relating to marriages that were registered in the ACT more than 75 years ago. The ACT marriage Index is arranged by date of marriage and includes surname, given names, date of marriage and registration number.
Access Canberra maintains an historicdeathindex that provides limited information relating to deaths that were registered in the ACT more than 30 years ago.
It's arranged by date of death and includes surname, given names, date of death, registration number and sometimes the names of the parents.
The legislation register is an authorised electronic statute book that provides the community with free and quick access to ACT legislation and related information.
The legislation register is central to the making, notification, commencement, operation, interpretation, proof, republication, amendment and repeal of legislation and instruments made under legislation.
Collectively, the Electoral rolls for the years 1916, 1917, 1928, 1935, 1943, 1949, 1955, 1959 and 1967 constitute a unique window on the first 50 years of the Federal Capital Territory (now the A.C.T).
The AddressingHistory is a website and API which combines data from digitised historical Scottish Post Office Directories (PODs) with contemporaneous historical maps.
In the first instance AddressingHistory focuses on three eras of Edinburgh mapping and Post Office Directories (1784-5; 1865; 1905-6) however the technologies are scalable to the full collection of digitised materials which includes 400 PODs and associated maps covering the whole of Scotland.
Bibliographic databases covering African periodical literature including women's literature and travel, education, water and Islam in Africa.
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This site provides links to agricultural sites relating to Australia and New South Wales. It also contains a searchable index to other material published by NSW Agriculture.
AGRIS is an international information system to bring together world literature dealing with all aspects of agricultural sciences and technology. AGRIS is a cooperative system in which participating countries input references to the literature produced within their boundaries and, in return, draw on the information provided by the other participants. To date, 240 national, international and intergovernmental centres participate.
