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Australian Museum website looking at indigenous peoples long association with the Habour and looks at the wildlife and natural environment. Includes placenames, clans ,language and foods.

An index to over two thousand periodicals on a broad range of subjects including arts, business, humanities, social sciences, medicine and the sciences. Many of the articles are available in full text. It is produced in the USA.

Academic Search Premier is an academic multi-disciplinary database which provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals, offering information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

This site consists of bibliographic databases covering Africana periodical literature, African women's literature, and a comprehensive bibliography on women travellers and explorers to Africa.

This service indexes and selectively abstracts literature on the history of the USA and Canada published from 1954 to the present. All historical periods of American history are covered. Like its sister database, Historical Abstracts, the America: History and Life service covers over 2,000 key historical journals and general journals in social sciences and humanities from many countries

American National Biography offers portraits of more than 17,400 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the American nation.It is updated quarterly, with hundreds of new entries each year and revisions of previously published entries to enhance their accuracy and currency. The ANB Online features thousands of illustrations, more than 80,000 hyperlinked cross-references, links to select web sites, and powerful search capabilities.

This site provides a searchable database of images, many of them photographic, from the Library of Congress.

A guide to the study of the ancient Near East.

Links selected by Rutgers University's Religion Department, including resources on ancient languages and sites about ancient Palestine.

Detailed biographies and photos of nearly 500 Anzac officers who died in Gallipoli. Includes a link to epitaphs at Gallipoli.

A digital photo bank of archival photographs and other images of the City of Sydney, mostly dating from 1900 to the present day.

A biographical resource at the National Archives of Australia site.

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 Australians' involvement in World War Two.

This is the online version of the multi-volume reference work. It contains authoritative biographical entries on over 10,000 significant Australians who died before 1980. It can be searched by name, gender, religion, cultural heritage, and occupation.

Australian Heritage Bibliography ( AHB ), formerly HERA, produced by the Australian Heritage Commission, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on Australia's natural and cultural environment.

A database of more than 20 000 historic, natural and Indigenous places in the Register of the National Estate, the National Heritage List, the Commonwealth Heritage List, the World Heritage List, and places under consideration for any one of these lists. Information includes a place's values, its legal status, its significance, physical condition, history and photographs if available.

The Australian Heritage Places Inventory contains summary information about places listed in State, Territory and Commonwealth Heritage Registers.

An annotated directory of websites relating to Australian history compiled by the National Library of Australia.

A register of documents vital to Australia's history. This is one of 40 similar programs run by UNESCO for various countries of the world. It aims to preserve key documents in archives and library collections around the world and ensure that they are always available.

Australian Public Affairs - Full Text (APA-FT), is an indexing and full text database that provides Internet access to the scanned images of journal articles from published material on the social sciences and humanities. Australian Public Affairs - Full Text is based on the journal indexing of the database Australian Public Affairs Information Service (APAIS), which is produced by the National Library of Australia and published by RMIT Publishing.

Of the 320,000+ records indexed from 2,000+ journals in APAIS, approximately half are derived from 223+ comprehensively indexed journals. The scanned images of journal articles in Australian Public Affairs - Full Text are sourced mostly from these comprehensively indexed journals. Images are provided in PDF format.

Federal Department of Veterans' Affairs website providing access to the following military nominal rolls:

(1) First World War Nominal Roll - prepared by the Australian War Memorial, this is a single alphabetic listing of approximately 324,000 names of members of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) who served overseas during the First World War. The WW1 Roll consists of digitised images of the Official Records series AWM133 entitled 'Nominal Roll of Australian Imperial Force who left Australia for service abroad, 1914-1918 War'.

The WW1 roll was compiled before October 1919, probably at AIF Administrative Headquarters, London. It is believed that the roll was compiled to assist with the administrative arrangements necessary to repatriate members of the AIF to Australia. The sources on which the roll was based are not known. The roll includes the names of those who served with the Australian Flying Corps and Australian Medical Corps, but not the names of those who served with the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force.

The WW1 index is searched by surname and the contents is as follows: Service number (Officers and nursing sisters were not allocated service numbers); Final rank; Surname, first name (including some but not all honours); Unit of service at the time of death or at the end of the war; Date of enlistment; Non-effective entry (i.e. how that person became no longer effective, for example Returned to Australia) also referred to as 'fate'. A blank indicates that the person was still effective abroad at the time of compilation of the roll; and Date of death or start date of non-effect.

The authoritative source of information on individual service men and women is the personal service record. Copies of First World War service records can be obtained from the National Archives of Australia.

(2) World War Two Nominal Roll - contains the service details of some one million individuals who served with Australia's defence forces and the Merchant Navy during the period 3 September 1939 to 2 September 1945. The number of individuals collected for the Nominal Roll include some 50,600 members of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), 845,000 from the Australian Army, and 218,300 members of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) as well as approximately 3,500 merchant mariners. Australians who served with other Commonwealth or Allied Forces are not included in this Nominal Roll. Respective overseas countries may hold the World War Two service records for those Australians. In addition, those who served in the Australian Women's Land Army, the Australian Red Cross and philanthropic organisations, are not included in this Roll.

You can search the WW2 index by name, service number, honours and place (of birth, of enlistment, or residential locality at enlistment). Service record information provided includes: name, service, service number, date of birth, place of birth, date of enlistment, locality on enlistment, place of enlistment, Home Port, next of kin, date of discharge, date of death, rank, posting at discharge or death/last ship, honours and gallantry, prisoner of war, and roll of honour.

The WW2 index was compiled from Defence Department service service records. Data for merchant mariners was retrieved from National Archives of Australia service records. Additional information concerning those who died was obtained from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. For more detailed information on an individual, refer to complete service records held by the National Archives of Australia.

For WW2 military ranks and their abbreviations check the glossary at Glossary of Ranks.

(3) Nominal Roll of Australian Veterans of the Korean War - contains information from the service records of more than 17,000 individuals - 5,700 members of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), 10,800 from the Australian Army and 1,200 members of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) - who served in Korea, or in the waters adjacent to Korea, during the conflict and after the ceasefire, between 27 June 1950 and 19 April 1956.

(4) Nominal Roll of Vietnam Veterans - lists approximately 61, 000 men and women who served in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), Australian Army and Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in Vietnam, or in the waters adjacent to Vietnam between 23 May 1962 and 29 April 1975. Also listed are some 1,600 Australian civilians awarded or eligible to receive the Vietnam Logistics and Support Medal (VLSM).

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.

The AWM currently holds over 4,000 works of art, 203,000 photographs, 3,500 films, 350 sound recordings, 8,200 private records and 2,000 heraldry and technology items. There is an online search facility for this collection at Collections Search

The War Memorial website also offers the following online biographical databases that have been produced from names and associated information based on records in its collections :

Research a person - Enables a name search from a list of conflict records held by the AWM.

Nominal Rolls - Details of people who served in the Sudan War, Boer War, Boxer Uprising, First World War, Second World War and Gulf War (1990-1991).

Australian Red Cross Society Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau files - Digitised images of approximately 32,000 individual case files of Australian personnel reported as wounded or missing during the First World War.

Australian Military Forces [AMF] Prisoners of War and Missing in the Far East and South West Pacific Islands - Details of approximately 23,000 AMF prisoners of war and missing personnel from operations in the Far East and South West Pacific Islands, as at 30 June 1944.

Roll of Honour - Just outside the War Memorial's Hall of Memory, where the remains of the Unknown Soldier rest, there is a long series of bronze panels recording the names of Australians who died while on active service. This is known as the Roll of Honour. The names on the Roll of Honour have been replicated on the website.

Honours and awards - Honours and awards made to Australians while on active service in various conflicts. Includes some recommendations not subsequently granted, and some foreign awards and awards to foreign soldiers serving with Australian units.

Commemorative Roll - Australians who died during or as a result of wars in which Australians served, but who were not serving in the Australian Armed Forces and therefore not eligible for inclusion on the Roll of Honour.

Rememberance Book - commemorates all those members of the Australian Defence Force who have died on operations after 30 June 1947 designated as non-warlike service, and its equivalent, including Hazardous service or Peacekeeping service or humanitarian Peacetime service.

Additionally, the AWM website has :

(1) an Encyclopedia that features answers to frequently asked questions about Australians at war.

(2) a Glossary to Australian military related acronyms and abbreviations. The glossary is based on Research Centre queries and compiled primarily from Australian Military records.

(3) A guide to Australian Military Units ( navy, army and air force ) that have served Australia in times of conflict. Each profile includes a short history of the unit, details of its casualties, decorations, battle honours, commanding officers, and, in the case of technical units, the specifications of the equipment it used. Within each profile you are able to search the Memorial’s collections for items relating to the unit: photographs, works of art, film and sound recordings, personal records, and relics.

(4) Australian Army war diaries for the two world wars and the wars in Korea and Southeast Asia.

(5) Australian Government commissioned official war histories for the two world wars and the wars in Korea and Southeast Asia. Only the First and Second World War Official Histories are available here in digital format. In 2004, the Federal Government authorised the writing of a fifth official history relating to Peacekeeping and Post–Cold War operations.

The AWM Research Centre has produced a number of online collection finding aids at Finding Aids.

A collection of more than 120,000 images, 15,000 of which are available online. Images include natural and historic places listed in the Register of the National Estate and the Australian Heritage Database.

BHI Plus indexes articles from over 300 humanities journals and British newspapers. Subjects covered include architecture, archaeology, art, antiques, current affairs, education, economics, environment, ethics, film, genealogy, history, linguistics, literature, music, painting, philosophy, poetry, political science, religion and theatre.

An award-winning portal created for students, history educators, and general history enthusiasts. Sites covering a wide variety of topics and periods in history are rated for usefulness and accuracy.

Biography Resource Centre is a comprehensive biographical database containing nearly 415,000 brief biographies of more than 320,000 people gathered from over 780 volumes from 120 reference sources published by Gale. In addition it includes the full text of articles from over 280 periodicals.

The national body in Britain promoting local history and serving local historians. The association publishes The Local Historian, quarterly journal, and Local History News, a topical magazine, both of which are indexed and archived on the website.This gateway site to local history also provides links to local societies and national local history bodies.

A database of still images and footage from historical cinema newsreels produced by one of the oldest media companies in the world, British Pathe. Low-resolution previews may be downloaded for free. High-resolution licensed clips are available for purchase online.

A digital library of documents about people, places and businesses from the medieval and early modern period, created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust. Includes some volumes from the Victoria County History series as well as links to directories and lists such as the Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, which lists officials in the Church of England 1541-1857.

Covers Roman, Greek and medieval Byzantium/Constantinople.

The Local Studies collection at the Campsie branch of Canterbury City Library is a specialised reference collection which includes:

(1) Pictorial Canterbury - a Canterbury City Library online database of over 10,000 photographs charting over 150 years in the history of the local area; (2) Maps including land grants, parish maps and land subdivision plans to help you trace the history of your house; (3) Newsletters of local community organisations; (4) Reports and environmental impact statements about Cooks River, Wolli Creek and the M5 Motorway; and (5) Local newspapers.

The story of Captain James Cook told through the collections of the British Library and other institutions such as the Captain Cook Birthplace Museum.

Casahistoria is a web site of topic links for students of Modern History. The links are best suited to students at college, undergraduate and HSC level and focus on the most common areas of study.

Profile of this area in the Middle East, including demographic facts, historical overview, and information about leaders and media. Site also includes links to numerous related news stories, audio of the Israeli national anthem, and audio and video of some news stories. From the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

A pathfinder site for historical values of money such as 17th century prices, 18th century currencies and exchange rates, CPI since 1750, and what things cost in the 1940s.

DIOTIMA serves as an interdisciplinary resource for anyone interested in patterns of gender around the ancient Mediterranean.

A collection of images and information about the history and archaeology of ancient Egypt.

A Directory and Report of 99 New South Wales public library local history collections and local history digitising projects.

Links, lesson plans, games and puzzles for history students and teachers.

Documenting a Democracy is a National Archives of Australia website - developed in partnership with Australia's eight state and territory government archives and the National Council for the Centenary of Federation - that provides 110 key documents, in both digital and transcription format, relating to the foundation of Australia.

Key documents include nine sets of original legal and constitutional instruments for the creation and evolution of the Commonwealth, states and territories governments, accessed by either a place or map search tool. There is a Picture Album of people and places behind the documents; information on how Australia's constitutional boundaries were formed at Places; and an Australian history Timeline which shows what was happening when each document was written.

There are also Pathways to documents on the themes of Foundation, Building, Freedoms and Land. This webpage includes a digital map of Aboriginal Australia before the advent of Europeans.

EEBO is an ongoing project of full texts of publications in the English language produced by printing presses in England and its colonies between 1473-1700.

The collection currently comprises 20 books (23 volumes) including the majority of those published in the first half of the 19th century. The books are keyword searchable, individually or as a collection.

Nearly 150,000 English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800 will be made available online over the course of the next two years. When complete, the product will allow full-text searching of more than 33 million pages of material, in essence, every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in the United Kingdom, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.

Encyclopædia Britannica Online includes the complete encyclopaedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopaedia and the Britannica Book of the Year. You can also use Encyclopædia Britannica Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 300,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.

Full texts of classic books on exploration, discovery, and travel, by authors like Thoreau, Dickens, Richard F. Burton, Richard Hakluyt, Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, Lewis and Clark, etc.

World history from ancient to modern times using primary sources.

This site allows you to obtain the historical exchange rate for any currency pair, select the language, the range of dates and the currencies for which you would like to obtain exchange rates.

An online gallery of 629 drawings and watercolours by artists of the First Fleet in the collections of Library of the Natural History Museum, London. The works are attributed to George Raper, Thomas Watling, and the artist known as the Port Jackson Painter.

Full text information including primary documents, articles, a timeline, posters, songs and photos.

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.

This database contains information about those who lived in Newcastle, Hunter Valley, Liverpool Plains and Brisbane Water districts of New South Wales before 1850.

A website dedicated to bushranger Ned Kelly's last stand at Glenrowan, Victoria. Includes original newspaper reports, police documents & eyewitness accounts of the events of late June, 1880.

This Anglo-Boer War of 1899–1902 website contains:

(1) South African Graves - database which comprises the records of Australians in the Victims of Conflict database of the National Memorials Council (NMC) of South Africa. It serves as a record of burial places and locations of memorials of 557 individuals.

The NMC supplied the following background information: 'Our main source was from the Field Force Casualty List (FFCL) which was compiled just after the war. It contains the list of those fighting on the side of Britain who were killed, wounded, taken prisoner, etc., from October 1900 until the end of the war. We also used information from the registers of soldiers graves in the Cape, Free State and Transvaal provinces and from old files used by organisations that predated this office.'

The data supplied by the NMC was arranged in the following fields: Surname, Initials, Rank, Unit, Force No, Place of Death, Date of Death, Cause, Buried, Previously Buried, Memorials.

(2) Australian Memorials - database which allows you to search for memorials by name within each Australian state or by the name of the person.

The memorials fall into three groups. In one are the 'national' memorials built by the Commonwealth and State governments to commemorate the casualties from each jurisdiction. In another are the civic memorials built in public places usually by local government councils. And in the third are the numerous semi-public memorials in the buildings or grounds of institutions such as churches, schools and cemeteries.

The database currently encompasses all the 'national' memorials, several dozen of the civic memorials and a few semi-public memorials. It is a work-in-progress and contributions of inscriptions and photographs are welcome.

(3) The website also provides brief biographies, photographs, information on memorials in Australia and detailed South African maps for 1900 and 1905. There are also links to Boer War related websites, including : National Monuments Council of South Africa; Office of Australian War Graves; Colin Roe's Boer War Data Base Project; Perth DPS pages of Murray's nominal rolls; Australian War Memorial's Boer War Nominal Roll Data Base; National Archives of Australia; Anglo-Boer War Study Group of Australia; Defending Victoria's Boer War Web Page; Kieron Spires' Army Nursing in the Boer War; Parktown & Westcliff Heritage Trust, Johannesburg; Colesberg Anglo-Boer War Site; The War Museum of the Boer Republics, Bloemfontein; Anglo Boer War: Siege of Elandsriver Commemoration; and New Zealand's Participation in the South African ('Boer') War 1899–1902.

The website was developed by the Heraldry and Genealogy Society of Canberra and the Department of Veterans' Affairs assisted with funding in 1999 under the Federal Government's 'Their Service—Our Heritage' commemorative program. The National Memorial Council of South Africa provided the Australian records from their Victims of Conflict database through the Office of Australian War Graves. The website was launched on 11 October 1999—the 100th anniversary of the start of the Anglo- Boer War—and was re-developed in the first quarter of 2002.

Historical Abstracts is your complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).

Guide to the history of South and Central America.

A world history database with timelines and articles arranged by period, theme, and region.

The Local History Collection at Hornsby Shire Library provides information about the whole of Hornsby Shire from Epping to Wisemans Ferry, from Dural to Brooklyn. This includes material on the history of the Shire’s community, geography, and natural environment.

There is an online Street and Place Name Database which provides clients with the origins of street and place names within Hornsby Shire. The information is taken from local histories, journals published by Local Historical Societies and from Local Historians themselves. Support material is also taken from other resources within the Hornsby Library's collections. These sources may include encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographical dictionaries and other relevant journals.

There is also a guide to Researching the History of Epping and to Researching the History of Beecroft. There are online websites for the local war memorials of Beecroft, Berowra, Dural, Epping & Hornsby, online lists of past Hornsby Shire Council councillors, mayors & presidents and a timeline of key dates in the history of the Hornsby Shire.

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) contains House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to present session, with supplementary material back to 1688.

Allows comparisons of value including prices, purchasing power, earnings, GDP, interest rates, exchange rates and other economic variables between the past and today. Calculators convert past values into current values and vice versa.

This bibliographic database indexes articles from 400 English language periodicals covering a wide range of disciplines in the humanities. Periodicals covered include some of the best-known scholarly journals and numerous lesser known but important specialized magazines. Sources include interviews, obituaries, bibliographies, reviews, and original works of fiction, drama, and poetry.

Full text coverage from selected journals begins in 1995.

Humanities and Social Sciences Retrospective Index 1907-1984 is an important online resource for research in the humanities and social sciences and complements and extends the coverage provided by the Library’s existing subscriptions to Humanities Full Text and Social Sciences Full Text (from 1984 and 1983 onwards respectively).

Resources relating to the history of the Hunter Valley, including information about cemeteries, churches, historic homes, collieries, and digitised publications such as early directories, newspapers and journals.

You can Search Local Studies Catalogue for the Library's collection detailing aspects of the community of the Hurstville City area, including books, photographs, maps, information files and pioneers indexes. You can also Search Local Studies Photo Catalogue for the Library's collection of historical images of the people and suburbs in Hurstville City Council.

This website also provides pdf files on : Aborigines of the Hurstville District up to 1810; Hurstville and the Railway; Street Names of Hurstville City; Oyster Farming; Ship Building on The Georges River; Parks and Fields of Hurstville; Dating Australian Buildings: A Rough Guide to Styles and Methods; The Curious Story of W.I. Donald, Town Clerk; and timelines for the local Hurstville suburbs of Beverly Hills, Lugarno, Mortdale, Oatley, Narwee, Peakhurst, Penshurst, Riverwood and Hurstville City.

HyperHistory is an expanding scientific project presenting 3000 years of world history with an interactive combination of lifelines, timelines and maps.

A collection of material related to the (primarily military) history of the Second World War, completely cross-referenced via hypertext links.

A collection of digitised photographs and maps to support the teaching of history at the upper secondary school and university level.

Informit is the leading provider of online access to indexes and full text databases of Australasian scholarly research. A product of RMIT Publishing, databases can be divided into the following major subject areas: Agriculture, Arts, Asian, Business, Education, Engineering, Health, History, Indigenous, Law, Media, Reference, Sciences, Social Sciences and Technology.

This ancient history resource includes original texts as well as supporting material, all organised by area of study.

This sourcebook attempts to present the various ways of looking at the history of women within broadly defined historical periods and areas.

Political movements, revolutionary and labour history, and organisations.

Includes historical as well as technical information and photographs of lighthouses around Australia. Includes links to international lighthouse websites. Includes an accommodation guide for Australian Lighthouses.

Updated annually, this online Australian dictionary includes the Macquarie Thesaurus online

Covers people, places, events, industry and landscapes in the suburbs of the Marrickville local government area. These images are from the Marrickville Library Services Local Studies collection.

As part of Mosman Library's Local Studies Service, there is a Mosman Memories of Your Street online 'living history' project which allows past and present residents to contribute memories and photos of the streets of Mosman. The site provides a list of Mosman streets and the stories and photos that have been submitted for each street.

There is a Mosman Voices: Oral Histories Online which provides access to the Library’s extensive oral history collection. Subjects discussed include : Balmoral; Boronia; Cave Dwellers; Cinema; Clifton Gardens; Curlew Camp; Dairies; Friends of Bradley Bushland Reserve; Games; Housing; Mavis Sykes Ballet School; Midget Submarines; Mosman Library; Mosman Musical Society; Parriwi Road; School; Second World War; Shops & Shopping; Sirius Cove; Social Life; Spit Junction; Storms; Swimming; Taronga Zoo; The Amphitheatre; The Depression; The Influenza Epidemic; The Spit; Traffic; Trams; Woolbuyers; and Work.

There is also an online database for the Mosman Library Images Collection which has some 1,400 images of Mosman. These consist of photographs, drawings and maps from 1789 to the 1980s, and includes the Carroll Collection which was donated in the 1950s by former Mayor and amateur local historian, Dalton Jack Carroll.

A commercial site which provides images of historical documents of NSW during the period 1850 to 1920. Includes records in the following categories - Directories, Electoral Rolls, Miners and Mining Leases, Land Purchasers and Lessees, Farmers, Graziers, Shearers and Station Hands, Other Occupations Including Civil Servants, Teachers etc., Voters, Petitioners, Friendly Society Members etc. Much of the material is available freely on viewing the site.

The state heritage register online database lists items of particular significance to the state. It includes items subject to an Interim Heritage Order under the NSW Heritage Act.

Coordinated by the History Group of the New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Includes Maori, military, family and sports history.

Produced by the Ned Kelly Museum at Glenrowan, Victoria.

A research and teaching resource on the world wide web devoted to the history, public works and arts projects of the New Deal and the Great Depression.

This is a joint project by the NSW Government and the Returned and Services League of Australia (NSW Branch) to document over 3,000 war memorials estimated to be in NSW, using the combined resources of local councils, RSL sub-branches and schools. Currently, 921 NSW memorials and 86,947 veteran names are documented. Instructions on how to contribute to this database are provided.

The NSW war memorial database allows you to click on the 'Browse' button to access a list of memorials documented within an alphabetical list of suburb/towns. Alternatively, you can undertake a 'Veteran Search' by last name (first name optional) or a memorial 'Location Search' by place and/or postcode.

Veteran details provided can include rank, conflict, status, service and gender. Memorial details include an image of the actual memorial and a description, the dedication date, the inscription, the total number of veterans names recorded and the conflicts commemorated.

There is a list of links to other relevant webpages, notably the Australian War Memorial (in Canberra), the National Archives of Australia, the Commonwealth Department of Veteran Affairs and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Other related resources are also listed, notably, War Memorials in Australia, A Tribute to ANZAC, UK National Inventory of War Memorials and The Anglo-Boer War Memorials Project.

This website also provides details on the following military commemorative traditions: The Last Post; Laurel Wreaths; The Ode - For the Fallen; Poppies for Remembrance; Memorial Days - ANZAC Day and Remembrance Day; and The State Funeral.

Maintained by the Newcastle Region Library, this website allows you to search the collections of the Newcastle Region Art Gallery, the Newcastle Region Library and the Newcastle Regional Museum.

The website provides access to the following Newcastle region databases:

(1) Hunter Photobank - Newcastle Region Library's digital image database. It contains a large collection of historical and documentary images of Newcastle and the Hunter Region.

(2) Hunter Sports Database - the Hunter Sports Database and the Hunter Region Sporting Hall of Fame document the sporting achievements of the regions best sports people. You can search for pen portraits, images and the records of over 800 champions from the Hunter area in all fields of sporting endeavour.

(3) World War One Diggers Database - a listing of the war service records of Hunter men and women who served in World War One. You can search for your great-grandmother's war nursing record or discover how many miners enlisted from your suburb.

(4) The Newcastle Earthquake Database - a comprehensive collection of published and unpublished records, photographs, audio and video information on the 1989 Newcastle Earthquake. There are 3,600 bibliographical records with abstracts available on the database. Of these, 2800 records are available as electronic full text records and there are digitised images, sound and video files.

(5) Artsearch - a database of the Newcastle Region Art Gallery collection.

(6) Newcastle Regional Museum Collection - a database of the Museum's collection of some 10,000 social, Indigenous, technological and natural history objects, which covers the broad spectrum of Newcastle's story. You can search for objects from industrial equipment to wedding dresses.

This website is a City of Sydney Archives project which, with the help of volunteers, aims to bring together historical information about the Municipality of Newtown.

Currently, the site holds the Minutes of the Borough Council of Newtown for the years 1863 to 1918, with aims to cover up to 1948. The Minutes are being transcribed from the original volumes to an electronic file using voice recognition software. The Newtown Municipal Council Rate Books for property owners and Assessment Books for property occupiers, for the period 1864 to 1900, are also being reproduced as images of the original pages. Only 1889 has been completed ( as of Feb 2009).

An online Sands Directories for Newtown, for the years 1865 to 1932, is transcribing the Newtown section of the Sands Directory and has completed up to 1882. The Sands Directory was a residential and business directory for the City and Suburbs of Sydney. There is an online Short History of the Streets of Early Newtown , Newtown Maps for 1885 & 1890 and a Newtown Picture Gallery which covers local buildings (especially along King St) and the pubs.

Other online holdings include Newtown Jubilee Souvenir Books for 1912 & 1922 to mark the 50th and 60th Jubilee anniversaries of the declaration of Newtown as a municipality, a list of Mayors and Councillors of the Newtown Municipal Council - 1863-1948, Biographies of Early Newtown Aldermen and a Chronology of Events in Newtown.

The North Sydney Heritage Centre, Level 1 in Stanton Library, houses (1) the David Earle Local Studies Collection; (2) the Merle Coppell Oral History Collection, which has over 300 interviews relating to the local area; (3) the North Sydney Community Archives , which is the archival repository for the record collections from public institutions, private companies and individuals associated with North Sydney, such as Luna Park artist Arthur Barton and the Marion and Neil Shand Collection relating to May Gibbs; and (4) a significant proportion of the North Sydney Council Archives. The Council Archives dates from 1869 to the present and includes rate and valuation books, building registers, correspondence files, minute books and maps and plans useful for conducting research into buildings and sites as well as North Sydney history in general.

Some of above material is also available online in the Library's Heritage Databases. Databases include The Face of North Sydney Image Library of over 8,500 photos; Naming North Sydney Index detailing the history behind the naming of North Sydney's streets, parks and localities; North Sydney Council Building Application Plans Archive of original Building Plans lodged during 1930 to 1949; 1890s Block Plan Maps of North Sydney drawn between 1890-1896; The Mosman Daily Index from January 2004; North Shore Historical Society's Journals Online from inception in 1959 to 2008; Index to St.Thomas Cemetery, Crows Nest; and the Just For Fun Image Library which contains the Kathy Day collection of world amusement park and seaside resort postcards.

There is also an online Heritage Leaflet Series which cover the following topics: Aboriginal Tribes; Local Government in North Sydney; 'Firsts' in North Sydney; Local History Museums; Ivycliffe Villa; Holtermann at Lavender Bay; Greenwood School; Luna Park; Boat Building in North Sydney; Conrad Martens and North Sydney; The Independent Theatre; Sydney Harbour Bridge; The Suspension Bridge; Memorials to World War 1; A Walking Tour of Historic North Sydney; St Leonards Park; Waverton Park; Stanton Library; St Thomas Rest Park - a walk through history; Picture Theatres of North Sydney; Greencliffe; Graythwaite; Harold Cazneaux; The World of May Gibbs; Commodore James G. Goodenough; Reverend William Branwhite Clarke; Medical Services Heritage walk; Cremorne Point Heritage walk; North Sydney Oval Heritage walk; Waverton Peninsula Heritage walk; Faces of Federation Heritage walk; Set in Stone - Heritage walk; Taking the Ferry; Kurraba Point; From Milson to Medium Density - Kirribilli walk; From Filigree to Federation - Holtermann Estate walk; From Track to Tarmac - McMahons Point walk; St Thomas Rest Park - Sailors, soldiers and civil servants; & Heritage Plaques Walks.

The British Library's largest digitisation project provides virtual exhibitions and themed tours of its collections.

Includes the 20 volume Oxford English Dictionary and supplements, and new and revised entries. All volumes are fully searchable and provide historical information as well as the meanings of words.

Contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books.

This important indexing service provides global coverage of public affairs and world issues, including references to sources from more than 120 countries in English, French, German, and other languages. The service indexes more than 1,200 journals and 8,000 monographs each year. PAIS also identifies relevant web sites of which there are now around 4,300 included.

Guide to South Pacific history edited by the National Institute for Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University.

Background to the Arab-Israeli conflict by the Middle East Research and Information Project, publisher of Middle East Report. MERIP provides news and perspectives about the Middle East not available from mainstream news sources.

Periodicals Archive Online (formerly Periodical Contents Index) is a leading humanities and social sciences indexing service which provides access to bibliographic records of articles from more than 4,000 journals published from 1770 to 1995. Periodical Archives Online at present gives the full text of articles from 228 journals indexed by PCI.

Full texts of ancient, medieval and renaissance writings, as well as photos and articles.

Search and browse more than 130 000 captions and more than 10 000 images from the National Archives' photographic collection.

The State Library of NSW contributes pictures and records from Manuscripts, Oral History and Pictures Catalogue to PictureAustralia. PictureAustralia is a web service which provides a single point of access to digitised images from many of Australia's leading cultural institutions.

An online archive of images and film footage illustrating more than 200 years of American history. Included in its holdings are the Picture History Collection, the Meserve-Kunhardt Collection, and the Gordon Parks Collection.

The Picture History Collection includes 18th, 19th, and 20th century images. It specializes in American Presidents, the White House, and the iconic people, scenes, and events that tell the story of American history.

The Meserve-Kunhardt Collection includes 19th and early 20th century photography. It is known for its holdings on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, including not only scenes but the officers of both the Union and Confederate army and navy. It's holdings include coverage of the theater, the world of PT Barnum, early New York City and Washington DC, Native Americans, African Americans, artists, writers, journalists, clergy, scientists, and a large collection of notable 19th century American women.

The Gordon Parks Collection includes the life work of one of the 20th century's best known photojournalists. His images cover a broad range of subject that serve as distinct markers in American history.

The online catalogue of National Library of Australia's pictorial collection, containing descriptions of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs and three-dimensional objects, and more than 30 000 digitised images.

Pompeiana.org is a site devoted to the consideration of all things about Pompeii. Currently and constantly in development, this website is designed to be an online repository for electronic resources on the ancient city.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers offers full-text and full-image articles for newspapers dating back to the 18th century. This ongoing project already includes The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Atlanta Constitution, The Boston Globe, and The Hartford Courant.

This site provides a directory of information about the association, events and activities (for members) and for non-members, information on applying for membership, a consultants' register, information on professional activities and a monthly calendar of events.

Randwick City Library Local Studies Collection at Bowen Library has an online Local Studies Index to its 13,000 files and includes the local newspaper and Randwick Council business papers. There is also an online Randwick Photo Gallery, with images dating from the 1880's, drawn from collections of the Randwick City Library, the Randwick District Historical Society and the Mitchell Library Small Picture File.

The Local Studies Collection includes Council Rate Books 1859-1926, Council Minute Books 1859 - 1984, Local/State/Commonwealth Electoral Rolls for the area, the Victor Harley Cohen Collection, Building Inspection Books (May 1913 - Dec 1913 & Mar 1918 - Mar 1923); Building Application Books (Mar 1923 - Dec 1959); the 1989 Randwick Council Heritage Inventory; and Maps.

There are also online local guides to Tracing your house history , The Sands Sydney Directory and Resources for tracing a property's history.

This database abstracts and indexes the most popular general interest periodicals published in the United States and Canada. It includes the full text of more than 120 selected periodicals such as the New York Times. Types of materials include news stories, cover stories, product evaluations and book reviews. Subjects include such general news areas as current events, business, fashion, politics, crafts, food, education, sports, history, and science.

The Richmond River Historical Society produces indexes to books on the district's history, including Australia's Fighting Sons, Men and a River, and Sword and Lance. There are also indexes to the society's holdings of local cemetery registers and obituaries and death notices.

This site provides information about the Royal Australian Historical Society (RAHS) and its activities. It also contains information about Australian and New South Wales history, historic Sydney landmarks, and lists of contents of the RAHS journal.

A comprehensive resource on the Holocaust and World War II, including a glossary, timeline, bibliographies, questions and answers about the Holocaust, and curricular resources for teachers. Online versions of past exhibitions from the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance are also featured.

A Society of Australian Genealogists index to musters and pay lists of British soldiers and marines in the early colonial period of 1788 to 1830. The SAG index includes: name, rank, regiment, pay list/muster roll, PRO Reel/source and notes. This index largely refers to PRO (UK Public Records Office) microfilm reels of the Australian Joint Copying Project which was a national/state libraries project to copy UK records relevant to Australia. AJCP reels are available in all state libraries (including the Mitchell Library) and the National Library.

The original material for the later regiments is to be found in The National Archives, Kew, London and forms part of the War Office records which are identified as series WO12. The sources of some of the earlier quarterly regimental pay lists and muster rolls have been very difficult to determine and users may come across the annotation 'source unknown' for this early material. This relates to the 1787 Muster Roll and some entries for the 1788 Muster Roll.

From the beginning of the Colony of New South Wales in 1788 until 1870 various British Military Regiments including the Marines arrived on this continent. Their role was to protect the inhabitants by acting as a police force and to keep law and order, especially when it came to bushrangers. The 3rd Regiment was the first to provide men for the Mounted Police.

It was not only New South Wales which felt the military presence, as their command spread over the other colonies - Van Diemen's Land, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and Moreton Bay (now Brisbane). In 1860 the 40th Regiment saw service in one of the Maori Wars in New Zealand.

At the end of their term in the colony the Regiments usually travelled on to the various British India establishments such as Madras and Calcutta. A soldier was usually given the option of staying on in the colony if he wished to settle here. Thus there are many Australians who have British Military ancestors.

The following is a listing of the pay lists and muster rolls included in the index and notes about their sources:

* Regiment/Pay List/Muster Roll - Date of List - Source

(1) Listed Officer of Marines - 1 Jul 1788 - 30 Sep 1788 - HRNSW, Volume 2, pp. 415-419

(2) 1787 Muster Roll - Source unknown

(3) 1788 Muster Roll - PRO Reel 412

(4) 1788 Muster Roll - Source unknown for some entries

(5) 1789 Muster Roll -5 Jun 1789 - 24 Dec 1789 -Historical Records of NSW (HRNSW), Vol. 2, pp. 432-435

(6) 1798 Pay List - PRO Reel 412

(7) 1799 Pay List - PRO Reel 412

(8) 73rd Regiment of Foot, 1st Battalion - 25 Jun 1812 - 24 Sep 1812 - PRO Reel 3869

(9) 73rd Regiment, Invalid Company - 25 Jun 1812 - 24 Sep 1812 - PRO Reel 3869

(10) 46th Regiment of Foot (South Devon) - 25 Mar 1815 - 25 Jun 1815 - PRO Reel 3795

(11) 48th Regiment of Foot - 25 Mar 1818 - 24 Jun 1818 - PRO Reel 3797

(12) 3rd Regiment of Foot (Buffs) - 25 Dec 1824 - 25 Mar 1825 - PRO Reel 3695

(13) 40th Regiment of Foot - 25 Sep 1827 - 24 Dec 1827 - PRO Reel 3774

(14) 39th Regiment of Foot - 25 Jun 1830 - 24 Sep 1830 - PRO Reel 3772

Australian National University (ANU) database of serials relating to Southeast Asian history and culture.

Full text accounts of South Pacific exploration. James Cook's journals are linked to an interactive map of his voyage.

Resources for history teachers.

A selection of articles and photographs from the last 150 years to mark the newspaper's anniversary.

An educational site about Australian bushrangers. The site is hosted by the University of New England's School of Curriculum Studies server.

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.

The Companion to Tasmanian History is a comprehensive website providing information about every important aspect of Tasmania’s history, covering all periods and all places, published by the Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies, School of History and Classics, University of Tasmania.

This site provides information from the BBC on World War I. It includes information on battles such as those at Verdun, the Somme and Passchendale, and information on war memorials, the Russian revolution and the war poets.

A searchable archive of ancient and modern history websites.

Excellent student resource for information about the Roman Empire from the American Public Broadcasting Service. Includes lots of reference material, reading lists and web links.

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.

British medieval history covering the period 800 AD to 1499 AD with detailed timelines, key medieval episodes, biographies of medieval people, photographs of medieval places, maps and 3D reconstructions of ruined castles and abbeys.

Timeframes is an online database of more than 20 000 heritage images from the Alexander Turnbull Library, a division of the National Library of New Zealand. The picture collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library cover the social and natural history of New Zealand, the Pacific and Antarctica, from the earliest European contact to the present.

The London Times newspaper has been captured, with all articles, advertisements & illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.

Particularly useful to genealogists for searching shipping notices.

A guide to the Victorian era on the web.

Developed by the Board of Studies NSW and the Commonwealth Department of Veterans' Affairs especially for students and teachers of Australian history and geography. Many of the photographs, artworks and documents discovered in the archives of the State Library of NSW are published on this website.

History page of the Virtual Library series of evaluated websites.

Information and resources about women's experiences in world history.

Links to easy-to-use history websites.

This site is an archive of primary documents relating to World War I including images and personal reminiscences.

The Yad Vashem Museum is the world's largest repository of information on the Holocaust. The activities of Yad Vashem include education, commemoration, research and documentation. This site provides access to the Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names.