Surveyor Thomas Scott Townsend (1812–1869) is an elusive, almost legendary figure, closer to folklore than to history. His name is given to the country’s second highest mountain, but the details of ...

Australians have often gone to great lengths to see their favourite sporting teams, even back in the 1860s. This is evidenced ...

We often don’t realise we’re living through a major historical moment until the time has passed. The pandemic we find ourselves in now is one such historical moment. Dr Chris Wallace and Professor ...

The internet is a valuable aid to research into family history. Australian websites contain a variety of information relating to family history and genealogy including guides, indexes and digitised ...

Theses completed for higher research degrees (PhD, Masters or Honours) form an important body of original research. There are a number of places you can search for Australian theses, we have outlined ...

Access to Records by Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants Assistance with records searching is available if you are a Forgotten Australian, Former Child Migrant (sometimes referred to as a ...

The Cambridge Dictionary defines fake news as “false stories that appear to be news, spread on the internet or using other media, usually created to influence political views or as a joke.” Dictionary ...

You may find that not all information about a convict is recorded on the Ticket of Leave Butts 1827-1867, particularly for earlier records. There were consequences for not producing a Ticket of Leave ...

The resources available for each house may be different, due to the fact the availability, organisation, and location of records vary from state to state. The three sources most commonly used to ...

The arrival of an ancestor in Australia is a key moment in a family's history. They may have arrived as a fare-paying passenger, as an 'assisted' migrant, a member of a ship's crew, in military or ...

Australian newspapers in the Library's collection are categorized and stored according to format. You can identify if the newspaper you have located in our catalogue ...

Electoral rolls list people who are registered and eligible to vote at federal, state, territory and local government elections and referenda. Before Federation and for some years afterwards, there ...