The NSW State Archives Collection documents the daily work of the NSW Government and its agencies from 1788 to today. With more than 14 million items, it is the largest collection of records relating to the history of NSW, its environment and the lives of its people.
The collection includes a diverse range of items and formats, such as letters, files, photographs, maps, posters, film, video and e-records.
The State Library of Victoria has produced a series of information guides to help you care for and conserve your books, newspapers, artworks, paper documents and photographs. These downloadable PDFs cover topics from pests and mould to storage and framing.
State Records NSW is the NSW Government’s records management authority. State Records NSW provides oversight of recordkeeping across the NSW public sector and supports effective and efficient recordkeeping by setting standards, promoting good practice, monitoring recordkeeping practice and compliance, and providing guidance, advice and resources.
Browse the two Statistical Accounts of Scotland, covering the 1790s and the 1830s. Click on Login and then Browse Scanned Pages. Based largely on information supplied by each parish church minister, the original (First) Statistical Account and the New (Second) Statistical Account provide a rich record of a wide variety of topics: wealth, class and poverty; climate, agriculture, fishing and wildlife; population, schools, and the moral health of the people. The State Library of NSW also holds the Statistical Accounts of Scotland 1791-1799 on microfiche in the Family History Service.
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The database contains information from research institutes around the world in areas such as international relations and security, armed conflicts and peace keeping, arms production and trade, military expenditure, armed forces and conventional weapons holding, nuclear weapons, chronology, statistics and other reference data.
The ADM 101 series of journals compiled by Royal Navy surgeons on emigrant and convict ships in the period 1793-1880, are now catalogued and searchable on The National Archives website. Journals can be searched by the name of the ship, surgeon, the patient as well as the disease or ailment. Only a selection of the journals have been digitised. See the list by scrolling down to the bottom of the page. To search for journals that have not been digitised but may have a summary, click on 'The Catalogue' then 'Search the Catalogue' then put in ADM101 in the Department or Series code and put the name of a ship, surgeon or patient in the Word or phrase box. The full journals are also available in the Mitchell Library on open access microfilm (AJCP collection).
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A database of nearly 10,000 convicts transported to Western Australia from 1850 to 1868. Includes details such as birth date, crime, where tried, years served, ticket of leave and certificate of freedom dates, and occupation. Searchable by name and ship. Produced by the Fremantle Prison.
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A database of nearly 10,000 convicts transported to Western Australia from 1850 to 1868. Includes details such as birth date, crime, where tried, years served, ticket of leave and certificate of freedom dates, and occupation. Searchable by name and ship. Produced by the Fremantle Prison.
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Digitised copy of the the Sydney Morning Herald (SMH), 1842-1954 via Historic Australian Newspapers, 1803 to 1954, on Trove, hosted by the National Library of Australia.
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The Sydney Morning Herald Index (Infoquick) is no longer maintained.
It was a selective index to the Sydney Morning Herald and its supplements (including the Sun Herald, Good Weekend, Eastern Herald, Northern Herald) from 1 January 1988 to 30 June 2005.
For recent articles, see eresources such as ProQuest.
For articles published between 1842-1954, see Trove.
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Founders & Survivors is a partnership between historians, genealogists, demographers and population health researchers. It seeks to record and study the founding population of 73,000 men women and children who were transported to Tasmania. Many survived their convict experience and went on to help build a new society.
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The Tasmanian Hansard Archive 1979 - 1991 has been produced by scanning and OCR processing of paper copy of the original Hansard for the House of Assembly and the Legislative Council.
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Tasmanian consolidated legislation online from 1997+. Acts that were in force as at 1 February 1997 are available in consolidated form and Acts passed after 1 February 1997 are available in sessional and consolidated form. Statutory Rules made after May 1998 are available in sessional and consolidated form. Point-in-time searching is available on Acts from 1 February 1997 and Statutory Rules from May 1998. All cross-references to Tasmanian Legislation and history notes are stored as electronic hyperlinks.
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Search an online database which contains records of births, deaths, and marriages held in the Archives Office of Tasmania. It also provides indexes of convicts, census records, wills, divorces and other indexes. Some digitised copies of records are available online, those which are not available online can be obtained from the Archives Office of Tasmania.
The Tate gallery, UK website includes over 65,000 images of works held by the gallery, as well as research papers, art history, exhibition information and education.
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