A rich and growing source of information about Australian women and their organisations, including:
- Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches with a listing of more than 700 women candidates who stood for New South Wales Parliament
- Australian Women in War which includes Australian women and women's organisations involved in the Boer War, World Wars and subsequent conflicts
- The Women's Pages: Australian Women and Journalism since 1850 which highlights the achievements of Australian women journalists and their contributions to the nation's public life and culture.
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'The Companion to Tasmanian History' is a comprehensive website providing information about every important aspect of Tasmanias history, covering all periods and all places, published by the Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies, School of History and Classics, University of Tasmania.
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In-depth analysis, research, news and ideas from leading academics and researchers.
Curated by professional editors, The Conversation offers informed commentary and debate on the issues affecting our world. Plus a Plain English guide to the latest developments and discoveries from the university and research sector.
The Encyclopedia of Australian Science is a register of the people and the many industries, corporations, research institutions, scientific societies and other organisations that have contributed to Australia's scientific, technological and medical heritage, with references to their archival materials and a bibliography of their historical published literature.
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This website about the Parramatta Female Factory includes a Search and a Browse facility, where you can browse Convicts, Children, Free People, Deaths, Nicknames and find information from various sources. The website notes that "new content is being added to the website all the time so, while you may not find a particular individual in our database today, check back here regularly as the person may have been added." The Mitchell Library also holds Joan Reese's Index to the Female Factory Parramatta 1826 to 1848 on microfiche MAV/FM6/376.
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The Historical Census and Colonial Data Archive (HCCDA) is an archive of Australian colonial census publications and reports covering the period from 1833 to 1901, the year of Australia’s federation. The corpus includes 18,638 pages of text, and approximately 15000 tables, all with full digital images, text conversion and individually identified pages and tables. Please note that the archive contains colonial census reports, but not individual census returns.
The Flinders papers website contains transcripts of over 150 documents about English navigator and chartmaker Matthew Flinders (1774-1814) that are currently held by the National Maritime Museum's Caird Library (UK). The collection consists of three main groups : (1) Flinders's papers, correspondence, charts and journals; narratives of his voyages; service papers and technical notes. This includes letters to and from Sir Joseph Banks and the explorer Sir John Franklin (2) His wife Ann Flinders's letters and correspondence - some written while Flinders was imprisoned on Mauritius (3) Sir William Flinders Petrie's miscellaneous collection of biographical material, notes, memoirs and news cuttings relating to his grandfathers career; and correspondence with J F Shillinglaw about a biography of Flinders which Shillinglaw never completed. This collection, currently on long-term loan to the Museum from Lisette Flinders Petrie, is the residue of those documents presented to the Mitchell Library in Sydney by Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (18531942), grandson of Matthew Flinders. These family papers form part of a larger State Library holding on Matthew Flinders, such as the following original materials.
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Discovery holds more than 32 million descriptions of records held by The National Archives and more than 2,500 archives across the country. Over 9 million records are available for download.
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A website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. Includes an index of online books, pointers to significant directories and archives of online texts, and special exhibits of particularly interesting classes of online books.
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This site provides a list of the latest Pulitzer Prize winners and also includes a timeline of all winners since 1917 and an archive of recent prize winners which contains the full text of winning articles.
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Search their database to find images of the graves or memorial listings of war dead and particularly those of the Commonwealth since the outbreak of the First World War. The project has photographed over 1.7 million named graves and memorials and have partnered with Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The ongoing project is run by volunteers.
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The mission of the Dennis Wolanski Foundation is to facilitate management, presentation and appreciation of the performing arts. The Foundation focuses on management of performing arts information resources in New South Wales. The website provides a directory of institutions holding material from the former Dennis Wolanski Library, and a selective catalogue of the collection. Holds important historical information about the Sydney Opera House.
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The National Library of Scotland's online collection of nearly 1800 broadsides printed notices for public distribution between 1650 and 1910. Crime, politics, romance, emigration, humour, tragedy, royalty and superstitions are covered by these precursors to the modern newspaper.
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This is the official site of the World Bank. It provides information about World Bank programs, news, details of World Bank publications and links to some full text documents.
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Official website of the Theosophical Society founded in 1875 by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Provides a history of the society, its major tenets and publications, as well as an international directory of its offices.
TheShipsList website has immigration reports, newspaper records, shipwreck information, ship pictures, ship descriptions, shipping-line fleet lists and more; as well as hundreds of passenger lists to Canada, USA, Australia and even some for South Africa.
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Trove helps you find and use resources relating to Australia. It’s more than a search engine. Trove brings together content from libraries, museums, archives, repositories and other research and collecting organisations big and small.
