Cambridge Companions Online is a fully searchable, full text collection of over 360 titles from the renowned Cambridge Companion series. It's regularly updated with new titles in the Companion series.
The subject areas covered are literature, classics, philosophy, religion and cultural studies.
A searchable online collection of more than 260 volumes published in various history series by Cambridge University Press since 1960.
This collection provides unique authoritative content covering history in 15 different subject areas including world history, ancient and medieval history, economics, science, literature, philosophy and religion.
Collections of monographs, manuscripts, and newspaper accounts covering key issues of economics, world politics, and international strategy. Some key topics such as: Partition of Africa and British Imperial Policy, the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, the Fashoda Incident, the Witwatersrand Gold Mining Industry, African response to Imperialism, the "Scramble for Africa", Chinese emigration, etc. Document supply available. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.
This complete database of Australasian content searches across all Informit subject databases. It covers the following major subject areas: Agriculture, Arts, Asian, Business, Education, Engineering, Health, History, Indigenous, Law, Literature, Media, Reference, Sciences, Social Sciences and Technology.
Useful for HSC Society and Culture, HSC English and HSC History.
JSTOR is an interdisciplinary digital archive of scholarly material in the social sciences and humanities and the sciences. It includes the full text of non-current issues from over 1,000 leading academic journals as well as select monographs and other materials. The State Library subscribes to the Arts & Sciences Collections Parts I - IX and the Nineteenth Century British Pamphlets collection. Document supply available. Useful for HSC History, HSC Society & Culture and HSC English.
This database contains digital images of a wide range of original documents, including diaries, letters, trench journals, personal narratives, memoirs, ephemera, objects (shown in 3D), propaganda recruitment posters, sheet music, postcards, scrapbooks, sketches and paintings, and trench maps. The database covers the wars in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Balkans, Eastern Front, Gallipoli, Home Front, Italian Front, Middle East, war at sea and in the air, as well as the Western Front.
An archival research resource containing a vast collection of rare magazines by and for servicemen and women of all nations during the First World War. Over 1,500 periodicals written and illustrated by serving members of the armed forces and associated welfare organisations published between 1914 and the end of 1919 are included.
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Contains photographs, reports and minutes, correspondence, diaries and press cuttings along with interpretative essays from leading scholars. Together these documents form an indispensable resource for the study of 20th-Century social, political, military and gender history.
An educational website developed by the Office of the Board of Studies for the Commonwealth Department of Veterans' Affairs. This site charts the course of Australia’s wartime history.
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The Australian War Memorial's national collection covers Australia's past involvment in the following armed conflicts : New Zealand (Maori Wars) 1860-1866; Sudan (NSW contigent) 1885; South Africa (Boer War) 1899-1902; China (Boxer Uprising) 1900-1901; the First World War (1914-1918); the Second World War (1939-1945); British Commonwealth Occupation Forces (1946-1952); the Malayan Emergency (1948-1960); the Korean War (1950-1953); Indonesian Confrontation (1963-1966); the Vietnam War (1962-1972); the Gulf War (1990-1991); East Timor (1999 - ); Afghanistan (2000 - ); Iraq (2003 - ) and various peacekeeping operations.
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This site provides personal and service details and places of commemoration for the 1.7 million members of the Commonwealth forces who died in the First or Second World Wars. A record of some 60 000 civilian casualties of the Second World War is provided without details of burial location.
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From the Royal Australian Navy this database provides detailed histories of HMA ships. Entries for each ship include statistics, photographs, war service details and voyage dates.
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The NSW War Memorials Register is a database of war memorials in New South Wales. It currently holds more than 3000 war memorial records, and more than 200,000 veteran records. The Register enables communities to record accurate information about war memorials, provides best practice information about war memorial conservation, and connects memorials and veterans to sustain NSW military and commemorative history.
The National Archives was formed in April 2003 by bringing together the Public Record Office and the Historical Manuscripts Commission. This site provides information about genealogical research in the United Kingdom, including the 1901 census, family fact sheets which provide details on tracing an ancestor, and research information leaflets. Records available online include the 1901 and 1911 Census for England and Wales, and probate wills from 1384 to 1858. Initial searches are free but charges apply for viewing records.
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