This eresource covers a broad range of topics and is drawn from leading archives around the world. From papers of leading sexologists, to LGBTQI+ personal histories, the collection is an essential resource for the study of human sexuality, its complexities and its history. It includes some digitised material from the Uni of Sydney Rare Books Library, The Kinsey Institute, and others.
The prompt books tell the stories of key performances as they were put in theatres throughout Great Britain, the United States, and elsewhere. Included are a mixture of handwritten manuscripts, printed typesets, personal notes, and sketches. The eresource includes curated case studies around 17 performances (King Lear, Hamlet, Coriolanus, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Henry V, A Midsummer Night's Dream. Covers Seventeenth Century to the Twentieth. By Adam Matthew Digital.
A yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production, published since 1948. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or a play, or a group of plays, and features the best international Shakespeare scholarship in English.
This site provides a picture and information on each ship that sailed with the First Fleet. Images have been constructed from written descriptions of the ships. Produced by the First Fleet Fellowship.
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tool to help users find short stories from among more than 150,000 published in the U.S., England, and Canada dating from the 1830s to the 1980s. The index provides access by author, title, and publication, as well as topics, themes, locales, genre, and people (individuals, ethnicities, or professions).
Lists over 7000 international institutions with material relating to the performing arts, including theatre, opera, music, ballet, film, circus, radio, television, cabaret, pantomime.
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The SIX Maps viewer provides access to a range of NSW primary spatial data through an intuitive public interface. Product for viewing on this site include: - Cadastral, Topographic, Imagery, Place Names and Addressing data.
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A critical survey and more than 400 definitions and essays on occult, paranormal and pseudoscientific ideas and practices as well as a survey of the philosophy of atheism and skepticism.
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SIRC is an independent, non-profit organisation founded to conduct research on social and lifestyle issues, monitor and assess global socio-cultural trends. Free access to their articles and publications online.
ProQuest Social Science Database covers hundreds of international social science journals. Topics include gerontology, economics, international relations, minority studies and urban studies. Document supply available.
Genealogy SA offers an online database that can be used to search the following databases: Newspaper Birth Notices Index from 1960 onwards Newspaper Death Notices Index from 1972 onwards South Australia Cemeteries Index Birth Registration Certificates Index 1842 - 1928 Death Registration Certificates Index 1842 - 1972 Marriage Registration Certificates Index 1842 - 1937
Although no convicts were transported directly to South Australia from Britain, some convicts were tried in South Australia and transported to other colonies. This alphabetical list provides details of convicts including name, alias, crime, date and length of sentence. Produced by Graham Jaunay.
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Founded in 1903 by Alfred Cunningham and Tse Tsan-tai, a key figure in the Chinese revolt against the last imperial Qing Dynasty at the turn of the 20th century, the newspaper became a platform for advocating the reform movement in China, along with Imperial Japan and Communist China.
Full text literature study guides for a range of classic novels and most of Shakespeare's plays. Includes chapter plot summaries and criticism.
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SPORTDiscus is a bibliographic database for sports and sports medicine research. It includes records from leading sports medicine journals, books, and dissertations. SPORTDiscus contains over 1,300 titles of which 60% are full text including material from Australia and New Zealand
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.
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 SMH Archive covers the period 1955 to February 1995. The contents of all issues are fully text searchable including advertisements, captions, and birth, death and marriage notices. Full-text results are returned in an exact digital reproduction of the printed pages as they were originally published. Document supply NOT available.
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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The SMH Library Edition reproduces the printed edition of the Sydney Morning Herald covering the period 2006 to today. It contains a replica of all pages, photos, articles, etc of the printed edition and can be searched and browsed.
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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ProQuest Telecommunications Database includes top telecommunications industry publications. Includes magazines, journals, and newsletters for the latest in this fast changing industry. Document supply available.
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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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 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.
'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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