Australian history by Monash University Library Arts Faculty Team

Culture Victoria

tamsin_reed — 2019-01-23 05:11:54 UTC

Explore the Stories, Collections and Organisations that make up the rich cultural life of Victoria on Culture Victoria.

Australian War Memorial

tamsin_reed — 2019-01-23 05:14:57 UTC

Digitised content on the wartime experiences of the brave men and women who served in Australia's military forces. Includes photographs, records, manuscripts and more.

Australian Red Cross

tamsin_reed — 2019-01-23 05:51:30 UTC

Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau records.

The Dawn

tamsin_reed — 2019-01-25 04:44:45 UTC

The Dawn: A Journal for Australian Women was an early feminist journal published monthly in Sydney, Australia between 1888 and 1905. It was first published 15 May 1888 by Louisa Lawson using the pen name of Dora Falconer. The subtitle was later changed to A Journal for the Household. It became the official publication of the Australian Federation of Women Voters.

Newspapers - Trove

tamsin_reed — 2019-01-25 05:05:14 UTC

There are currently 22,848,223 newspaper pages and 2,026,782 gazette pages digitised and available to view in this system.

First World War databases - State Library of Victoria

tamsin_reed — 2019-01-29 05:33:23 UTC

To access these databases, you need to sign up as a member to the State Library of Victoria.
To do this, click the link below, scroll down to Databases, journals and ebooks > History, and click on the First World War link.

Di Holdway Collection poster archive

tamsin_reed — 2019-01-29 05:53:46 UTC

The Di Holdway Collection is an important poster archive that shows the emerging political voice of Australia’s youth culture through poster art. The collection shows how the poster was used as a political tool during the 1970s and 1980s to actively communicate information to a mass audience. It also reveals how the decorative style has effectively been engaged to highlight social issues.

Colonial Frontier Massacres in Central and Eastern Australia 1788-1930

tamsin_reed — 2019-01-31 22:59:16 UTC

This site presents a map, timelines, and information about massacres in Central and Eastern Australia from 1794 when the first massacre was recorded until 1930. The map also includes information about massacres of British colonists and others in Central and Eastern Australia in the same period.

Australian Trade Union Archives (ATUA)

tamsin_reed — 2019-01-31 23:00:39 UTC

A gateway for researchers and scholars of labour history, linking together historical detail, archival resources, published material and information about Australian industrial organisations, mainly including trade unions and also employer bodies.

Melbourne 1945

tamsin_reed — 2019-01-31 23:19:44 UTC

Compare Melbourne as it was in 1945 with today.

The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918

tamsin_reed — 2019-01-31 23:25:26 UTC

Links to the following digitisation projects:
Battle to Farm, available via http://soldiersettlement.prov.vic.gov.au, enables access to nearly 10,000 government records on the Victorian Soldier Settlement Scheme.
The National Archives of Australia developed the Discovering ANZACs website, https://discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au, in partnership with Archives New Zealand allowing the public online access to original records from armed forces and service records, and selected correspondence.

Battle to Farm: WWI soldier settlement records in Victoria

tamsin_reed — 2019-02-06 22:14:29 UTC

Enables access to nearly 10,000 government records on the Victorian Soldier Settlement Scheme. The Victorian Soldier Settlement Scheme helped settle thousands of returned WWI soldiers on farming land across Victoria through government leases, drastically transforming the landscape of regional Victoria. Through the digitised resources, we can see not only the land allocated to each settler, but the hardships they faced.

Discovering ANZACs

tamsin_reed — 2019-02-06 22:16:43 UTC

The National Archives of Australia developed the Discovering ANZACs website in partnership with Archives New Zealand allowing the public online access to original records, and files relating to the war experience both abroad and at home in Australia and New Zealand.

A large selection of photographs from the National Archives and Archives New Zealand is also available, including images of battle sites, maps and strategic plans, personal photographic collections of significant people, as well as official photographs of some soldiers and most internees.

Chinese-Australian historical images in Australia

tamsin_reed — 2019-02-06 22:19:19 UTC

A catalogue of historical images of Chinese, Chinese immigrants and their descendants held in Australia. It primarily draws on the photographic holdings of the Chinese Museum but also includes photographs from other online archives, publications and private family collections.

The Judge Willis Casebooks

jessicabirch — 2020-11-02 03:32:22 UTC

Five criminal casebooks, one civil casebook and other papers of Judge Willis, the first judge in Port Phillip (later Victoria) from March 1841 to July 1843, have survived and were passed to the Royal Historical Society of Victoria (RHSV) in 1909 by James Palmer Savage, and are now in the manuscripts collection of the RHSV. The Judge Willis Casebooks are an invaluable record of Victoria’s early legal jurisdiction and early Port Phillip life.

The Australian Women's Weekly

jessicabirch — 2020-11-02 23:54:56 UTC

Digitised as part of the "Digitised newspapers and more" which allows access to historic Australian periodicals.

Museum of applied arts and sciences digitised collections

jessicabirch — 2020-11-02 23:57:40 UTC

Explore the extensive MAAS collection through sets of objects selected by theme.
These collection sets are presented as a starting point to browse the collection and new sets are added regularly.

National Archives of Australia - Cabinet Papers

jessicabirch — 2020-11-03 00:02:10 UTC

The Cabinet of Australia is made up of the Prime Minister and senior government ministers.

Cabinet records in the National Archives provide a fascinating look at the issues and decisions our government has faced over the decades.

The Everyday War - World War I and the City of Melbourne

jessicabirch — 2020-11-10 04:30:59 UTC

The majority of Australians experienced World War I not on the battlefields of Europe or Africa but at home, in everyday ways in the cities and towns where they lived and worked. While spatially distant from the battlefront, daily life in Melbourne was filled with events and interactions that brought the war home and affected the city and its citizens on multiple levels. Public life and entertainment, economic prosperity, the day-to-day running of the city, international trade relationships, housing and health, and the lives of ordinary individuals — all would be changed and shaped by the conflict.

Historic plans collection (1834-1984)

jessicabirch — 2020-11-10 04:33:34 UTC

While these plans are mainly concerned with recording ‘cadastral’ information, or the boundaries of properties, there are many sequences and plans that record other types of information as well. You might find:

early descriptions of soils and native vegetation
location of huts, fences, gardens and other capital improvements made by squatters
location of other buildings
tracks used by colonial settlers
reserves set aside for public use
early place names
location of pastoral runs
ship wrecks
the general progress of European settlement at various times
progress of cadastral, geodetic and physiographic surveys at particular times

Melbourne History Resources

jessicabirch — 2020-11-10 04:34:36 UTC

The Melbourne directories are a comprehensive listing of city addresses and occupants organised alphabetically by streets across the central city. It is augmented by alphabetical, trade and professional listings, as well as information on leading financial, government, official, ecclesiastical, legal and municipal institutions, and other miscellaneous advertisements, maps and information. The directory includes town as well as suburban listings, with coverage including Melbourne proper and, from year to year, the expanding suburbs of the greater metropolitan region.

Reason in revolt : source documents of Australian radicalism

jessicabirch — 2020-11-10 04:37:27 UTC

The Reason in Revolt project aims to bring together primary source documents of Australian radicalism as a readily accessible digitised resource. By 'radical' we refer to those who aimed to make society more equal and to emancipate the exploited or oppressed. As it grows and develops, the project website will become an expanding record of the movements, institutions, venues and publications through which radicals sought to influence Australian society.

Vagrants and Murderesses: Melbourne's Criminal Women

jessicabirch — 2020-11-10 04:38:09 UTC

On 3rd of Feb 1855 Bridget Plunkett was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for the crime of robbery. A 48 year old servant unable to write, Plunkett does not appear a woman of any great significance. However, ‘No. 1’. Is carefully written in the left hand corner of her prison record.

Plunkett, most likely unbeknownst to her, was the first of many women to be recorded in the first book of the Victorian Female Prison register. Created by the Penal and Gaols Branch , the the Victorian Female Prison register records the name and details of female prisoners in custody in Victorian gaols since 1855.
Plunkett was to be the first of many. Between 1855 and 1948 over 7000 women were recorded in the register. Today, sixteen volumes containing over 7000 files are open for public viewing at the Public Record Office Victoria. 900 of these are accompanied by mugshots, stunningly evocative images that show complex moments and emotions.

Lots Wife Student Newspaper

jessicabirch — 2020-11-10 04:44:37 UTC

Lot's Wife is the official student newspaper of Monash University's Clayton Campus. Lot's Wife is distributed around campus on a monthly basis, and is freely available to all students, staff and visitors to the University. Lot’s Wife is run entirely by students, under the leadership of a small number of editors elected by the student body.

Historic Hansard

jessicabirch — 2020-11-12 02:26:19 UTC

1901-1980 Commonwealth of Australia parliamentary debates presented in an easy-to-read format for historians and other lovers of political speech.

Parliament of Australia Hansard

jessicabirch — 2020-11-12 02:32:02 UTC

The Hansard is the report of the proceedings of the Australian parliament and its committees. This includes the Senate, House of Representatives, the Federation Chamber and all parliamentary committees.

National Archives of Australia

jessicabirch — 2020-11-12 02:33:00 UTC

The National Archives of Australia cares for and makes accessible the most significant Australian Government records to help tell our national story – past, present and future.

With more than 40 million items, our collection includes records about military service, immigration, First Australians and much more.

Australian Federation full text database

jessicabirch — 2020-11-12 02:33:44 UTC

This database provides access to the key primary source texts of Australian Federation, including the official reports of the debates of the 1890s, the major participants' accounts and memoirs, as well as a number of important related texts.

Long time listener - Listening Post magazine

2021-04-22 02:36:39 UTC

Listening Post is the magazine produced by Sydney community radio station 2SER FM from 1979 to 1997. It was launched just before the station itself in October 1979, designed to capture the mood, but also the progress, of a rapidly changing media industry at the time. With the print edition, 2SER, or ‘Sydney Educational Radio’, was able to provide the city and its surrounds with a broad resource to connect and continue to learn. Initiated by the station’s first manager, Keith Jackson AM, the magazine soon gained a dedicated following of those who wanted to get a grass roots, but also truly independent, view of the Australian media landscape.

A Century of Australian Advertising Posters

2021-04-22 02:37:56 UTC

What can we learn from the sentiment and imagery used to sell Australians of the past food, excitement and adventure? How are they reflected in the advertising images we still see today?

The National Library of Australia holds a vast number of late-19th and 20th-century Australian advertising posters that are now available to explore online. The collection features many famous brands and illustrators of the time, including Bushells, Ever Ready, James Northfield, Gert Sellheim and Norman Lindsay.

2022-11-21 03:40:03 UTC

The largest collection ever assembled of historic photographs dating from 1859 to the 1960’s in and of the South-West of Victoria.

Multilingual Archive of Australia

melanie_thorn — 2023-09-18 00:58:11 UTC

Radical archives

melanie_thorn — 2023-10-24 22:41:34 UTC

BADAC stories

melanie_thorn — 2024-10-16 00:06:33 UTC

Ballarat and District Aboriginal Co-op and it's founding. Interviews with the founders and staff.

Oral histories of Lake Tyers and surrounds

melanie_thorn — 2024-10-16 00:20:58 UTC