Collins Street looking east from Elizabeth Street, late 1880s

Collins Street looking east from Elizabeth Street, late 1880s. Photographer: Charles Rudd, Source: State Library of Victoria

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reference Collection

REF 079.945 AUS The Australasian Sketcher with pen and pencil 1880

REF 994 AUS Australia though time: 126 years of Australian history
REF 994 AUS Australian album: the way we were: Australia in photographs 1860-1920

REF 994.003 AUS The Australian encyclopedia. 1888

REF 994 AUS Australians. 1838
REF 994 AUS Australians: An historical atlas

REF 994 BRO Milestones in Australian History 1788 to the present
REF 994 TOW Town and City life in Colonial Australia

Non Fiction Collection

Use the Library Catalogue to find subject headings that will lead you to useful information. Remember you are looking for material that gives you an accurate picture of an economic, social political or cultural change which contributed to national development in Australia between 1850-1900.

Power Search  - Enter your search term into subject (always limit your search to a type of Non fiction)


Subject Headings - General
The subject Australia – History can be divided chronologically:
Australia – History – 1851 – 1901

Australia – History – 19th Century
Melbourne - History
Check the contents and index pages of the books for your topic

Immigration and population growth
History 19th century
Australia Immigration and emigration
Population Australia
Population History Australia
Gold mining Australia History
Australia Gold discoveries

The growth of an agricultural industry
Australia Agriculture
Agriculture Australia History
Australia Beef industry

The development of secondary industry or a particular secondary industry (particularly in Victoria)
Industries History Australia
Australia History Iron and steel

Iron and steel industry Australia History

The development and extension of ports, communications or urban rural transportTransport Australia History
Telephones History
Trams History
Trams Victoria Melbourne History
Railways Australia History

The development of housing or public buildings
Housing – Australia – History
Australia – Public buildings

You can also use the name of specific public buildings

The extension of education (free compulsory secular schooling)
Education – Australia  - History

The development of trade and business
Australia – Economic conditions – 1851 – 1901
Also search under specific Industries – e.g. woolgold, timber

The formation of the trade unions and the Labor Party
Trade Unions – Australia – History
Australian Labor Party – History

The improvement in sanitation health and health services
Public Health – Australia – History
History 19th century Australia
Victoria History
Victoria History 1851 -1900

The improvement in the lives of women and children
Children in Australia History
Women in Australia—History
Women in politics History
Women in Australia Social conditions

The establishment and extension of democratic government in the Australian colonies
Victoria government history
Australia Politics and government
Australia History 1851-1901
Victoria History 1851-1900
Australia Politics and government History
Australia Politics and government History

The development of defense services and military engagements
Royal Australian Navy History

Australia. Army. History
Boer War

The development of entertainment, sport or the arts
Outdoor recreation Australia
Sports Australia
Cricket Australia
Australian Rules football--History
Performing arts Australia History
Painting, Australian History

The development of another Australian colony (other than Victoria) or New Zealand
Queensland History
Tasmania History 1856-1900
South Australia – History
Western Australia History
Mines and mineral resources Western Australia History
Western Australia History 1829-1890

Basic Search - Words or Phrase Search
A keyword search in Words or Phrase Search will search for specific terms such as proper names or key terms:
Eg. Parliament, Education, Wool, Gold, Ballarat, Bendigo, Eureka Stockade, Timber, Trade Unions, Mining, Broken Hill, etc.. The search can be narrowed by entering more words, such as for example Australia or Victoria .
Some other examples of possible general words are: Australian Labor Party, Melbourne, Boer War, Sudan, etc.Entering the additional keyword videorecording or dvd will narrow the search to those formats. Eg . parliament videorecording and parliament dvd

Useful Dewey numbers for browsing

994 Australia - History

  • 994.01 to 1788
  • 994.02 1788-1851
  • 994.03 1851-1901

994.4 New South Wales

  • 994.401 to 1788
  • 994.402 1788-1851
  • 994.403 1851-1901

994.5 Victoria

Non-Fiction

994.0082 ALE Alexander, Alison. A wealth of women: Australian women's lives from 1788 to the present

305.40994 ALS Alston, Margaret. Women on the land: the hidden heart of rural Australia

355.310994 AUS Austin, Ronald J. Bold, steady, faithful: the history of the 6th Battalion, the Royal Melbourne Regiment, 1854-1993

796.3360994 AUS The Australian game of football : since 1858

359.00994 AUS Australia. Department of Defence (Navy.) An outline of Australian naval history

796.33609 BLA Blainey, Geoffrey, A game of our own: the origins of Australian football

994.5 BLA Blainey, Geoffrey, Our side of the country

994.5 BRO Broome, Richard, Arriving.

994.02 CAN Cannon, Michael, Life in the country

994.03 CAN, Cannon, Michael, Life in the cities

994.04 COC Cochrane, Peter. Australians at war

994.402092 MOW, Clarke, Patricia, A colonial woman: The life and times of Mary Braidwood Mowle 1827 - 1857

305.230994 END Cliff, Paul. The Endless playground: celebrating Australian childhood

305.40994 CUR Currie, Wendy. Women of Australia: shaping our history

994.5103 DAV Davison, G. The rise and fall of marvellous Melbourne

994.0099 DEV De Vries-Evans, Susanna. Strength of spirit: pioneering women of achievement, from First Fleet to Federation

305.42 DIX Dixson, Miriam. The real Matilda: woman and identity in Australia 1788 to the present.

994.5 DIN Dingle, T. The Victorians: Settling

305.230994 AUS Dow, Gwyneth M. Australian childhood: an anthology

994.51 EAS Eastwood, J. Melbourne: The growth of a metropolis

359.00994 EVA Evans, Alun. Royal Australian Navy

305.230994 FAB Fabian, Suzane, Children in Australia: an outline history. Melbourne: Hyland House, 1980.

994.02 FIT Fitzgerald, Brian, 1949, The British Empire in Australia: an economic history 1834-1939

994.03 GAR Gard, S. A history of Australia: Towards Federation

994 TOW Gibbs, R.M (compiler) Town and city life in colonial Australia

994.03 GIL Gilbert, P.F.Rural Life 1860-1890: selectors, squatters, bushmen & bushrangers

994 CRE Grimshaw, Patricia. Creating a nation

796.336 MOR Hess, Robert M. More than a game: an unauthorised history of Australian Rules Football

640.460994 HIG Higman, B.W. Domestic service in Australia

357.0994 HOL Holloway, David. Hooves, wheels & tracks: a history of the 4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse Regiment and its predecessors

994 HUN Hunt, O.W. Australia in the making

330.780994 HUN Huntsman, Leone. Sand in our souls : the beach in Australian history

994.02 HOL Holden, Robert. Orphans of history: the forgotten children of the First Fleet

994 JAC Jackson, R.V. The population history of Australia

371.80922 SCH Kinsella, John. School days

324.6230994 LEE Lees, Kirsten. Votes for women: the Australian story

994.5 LEW Lewis, Miles, The city's history and development

994.0049162 IRI McClaughlin, Trevor. Irish women in colonial Australia

331.0994 MAC MacLachlan, Bruce. Understanding sport, work and leisure

994.02 MEL, Melbourne Historical Journal v.10 1971

305.420994 MCM, McMurchy, Megan, For love or money

796.0994 MOU Moult, Allan, Australian adventures in leisure

994.00222 WOM Ohlsson, Ingrid. Women of Australia: their lives and times : a photographic gallery

324.6230994 OUR Australia. Office of the Status of Women. Our centenary of women's suffrage.

968.048 PAK Pakenham, Thomas. The Boer War

355.4110993 PLO Plowman, Peter, Across the sea to war : Australian and New Zealand troop convoys from 1865 through two world wars to Korea and Vietnam

305.420994 FRE Quartly, Marian. Freedom bound. I: documents on women in colonial Australia

359.10994 RIC Rickard, D.R. In the Navy

376.994 SEL Selzer, Anita. Educating women in Australia : from the convict era to the 1920s

994.403 COL, Sharpe, Alan, Colonial N.S.W 1853 - 1894

994 SHE Sherington, G. Australia’s Immigrants

355.40994 SIM Simmelhaig, Helen. For Australia's sake

968.048 SMU Smurthwaite, David. The Boer War, 1899-1902

994.03 TAT Tate, J.E Boom and Depression 1860 – 1893

994.5 VIC Victoria illustrated 1834 – 1984

994.02 YOU Younger, R. M., The pioneer years

Videorecordings

305.230994 GRO Fabian, Suzane. Growing up in Australia series [videorecording]: 1788 to 1985 Melbourne: Video Classroom, 1986.

Electronic resources

994 AUS Australia Through Time: 126 Years of Australian History.[CD-Rom] 1995. ABC/Random.

994 AUS History of Australia. [CD-Rom] 1997. Webster.

940 5394 VOI Voices from a war. [CD-Rom] 1997. Australian War Memorial

Websites

Australian Dictionary of Biography Searchable by name, gender, occupation and more.

Biggest Family album Musuem Victoria

Culture and Recreation Portal

Documenting a democracy 110 key documents in the history of Australia.

Ergo

The Evolution of Education in Australia website

Facsimile newspapers
Historic Australian Newspapers, 1803 to 1954

Fight for Rights Human rights in Victoria

Founders of the eight hours movement  (working conditions & union movement in Victoria)

Fuse

Gold Interactive resources as well as documents and images covering every aspect of the goldrush

Historic Australian Newspapers, 1803 to 1954 details of particular event/ person

History of the Union Movement website

Immigration Museum, Melbourne

Migration Heritage Centre History of migration & settlement to NSW from 1788

A multicultural history of Australia Timelines, audioclips, lesson ideas and activities that explore multicultural history.

NLA Australian History: selected websites
Themed resources for history teachers. Includes online texts, archives, museums, libraries, associations and overseas sources of Australian history.Promotes the use of Australian archival records. Particularly good explanation of using primary sources. See also National Archives of Australia

Our House – History of Australian homes website

Picture Australia Easily searchable galleries of Australian images, paintings, drawings and photos.

Sewers and sanitation in Melbourne  website

State Records of NSW

Sydney Journal Sydney Journal Journal devoted to historical situation in Sydney. Includes some excellent overviews of development of different aspects of the Sydney & NSW community

Technology in Australia, 1788-1988
Essays and articles covering technical innovations such as refrigeration in context with the history of Australian industry, agriculture and mining.

Australian Image Websites

  • Remember copyright - The following sites allow students to copy their images for educational purposes but the source of the image must be fully and correctly acknowledged
  • Record source details for bibliography

Australian Dictionary Of Biography The ADB Online contains over 10,000 articles on 11,237 persons (some articles are on more than one person) who were important in Australian history or who represent aspects of the Australian experience. All the articles have been taken from the hard-copy volumes of the ADB published between 1966 and 2005.

The Australian Screen is a look at the Australian film and television industry, from its earliest days to the present. You can view clips from Australian feature films, documentaries, TV programs, shorts, home movies, newsreels, advertisements, other historical footage, and sponsored films produced over the last 100 years, with curator's notes and other information about each title.

Australian War Memorial Use the Collections Search to locate photographs, art, film and sound.

National Archives of Australia http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/PhotoSearchStartup.asp Follow the Search link, remember to narrow search by 1950s or 1960s. For ideas on keywords, use the Browse subjects link.

National Library of Australia Pictures Catalogue Go to Search to locate pictures in the archive.

Picture Australia @ http://www.pictureaustralia.org/
Use the Advanced search option, narrow the date to 1950s or 1960s, and use keywords for images.

Screensound Australia http://www.screensound.gov.au
The National screen and sound archive. Again, to search for specific actors and films

State Library of Victoria – Search the Pictures catalogue

National Museum Australia: Making Tracks Significant objects from the National Museum of Australia's collection, includes some early cricket memorabilia

This guide prepared by Dianne Ruffles, Marie Buckland, Fiona Starford and Maggie Arundell
Last updated 19th April, 2010