A Family at War : Resource Guide

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Creating your letters and family album will require you to use a wide range of resources. This guide will point you in the right direction in your search for information. There are a small number of resources that are reference resources and are generally "not for loan". This is to ensure that they are always available for class use. Use the reference resources listed here to gain an understanding of what was happening in Australia during the war years. Reference Collection 994 AUS Australia though time: 126 years of Australian history. 1994. 2nd ed. Random House. Sydney. 994.003 AUS The Australian encyclopedia. 1988. 5th ed. Australian Geographic Society. Terrys Hill NSW. 994 AUS Australians. 1987. Fairfax Syme & Weldon. Broadway. NSW. 909.82 CHR Ross, John, ed. 1999, Chronicle of the 20th century, Ringwood, Vic.:Viking 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 the Australian world at that time as well as the war itself. Subject Words Search A search under Subject Words will search possible subject headings for the topic: Eg. World War. The search may be narrowed by searching the subject divisions or by adding more subject words. Eg. World War, 1914 – 1918 This subject can be divided geographically by country eg. Australia, France, Great Britain. Eg. World War, 1914 – 1918 - Australia The subject can be further divided. Words such as Campaigns, Battles, Sources, Pictorial works, Women, Personal accounts, etc. can be added. Eg. World War, 1914-1918 – Australia – Personal Accounts Have a look at the list of subject headings on the OPAC to find other useful ones. The subject Australia – History Can be divided chronologically eg. 1901-1918 or 20th century The subject Victoria – History Can also be divided chronologically. General Words Search :A keyword search in General Words (Title & Contents) will search for specific terms such as proper names or key terms: Eg. Propaganda, Great War or First World War. The search can be narrowed by entering more words, such as for example Australia or Women. Some other examples of possible general words are: Australian army, Gallipoli, ANZACs, Conscription, home front. Entering the additional keyword videorecording or dvd will narrow the search to those formats. Eg. war videorecording and war dvd Non-Fiction 994.00922 AUS, Australian dictionary of biography, 1966. Carlton, Vic. : MUP. 994.04 BAS, The Home front, 1914-1918. 1983. Melbourne : Oxford. 994.04 LEW Lewis, Robert and Tim Gurry. 2001. Homefronts at war: the Australian experience of war in World War 1, World War 2, and the Vietnam war, Apsley, Qld.: ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee of Queensland. 940.3161 YOU McKinlay, Brian, ed. 1990. Young ANZACS : the contribution of Victorian schools to the Gallipoli campaign 1915, Melbourne, Vic.: Ministry of Education 940.488 WHA Stanley, Peter, comp. 1983. What did you do in the war daddy? : a visual history of propaganda posters. Melbourne: Oxford University Press 940.40994 ANZ Pelvin, Richard, comp. 2004. Anzac: an illustrated history 1914 – 1918. South Yarra, Vic.: Hardie Grant 994.041 GIL Gilbert, P.F., 1976 Australia at war 1914 - 1918, Milton, Qld.: Jacaranda. 994.04 GAR Gard, Stephen, 2000. Australia: a new nation, South Yarra, Vic.: Macmillan. 994.04 TUR Turner, L.C.F. 1971 The Great War, Melbourne, Vic.: Cheshire. 940.426 CAR Carlyon, Patrick 2003 The Gallipoli story, Camberwell, Vic.: Penguin 994.042 HOM Young, James. 2004. News news news: momentous events and daily life as reported in the Australian press, Newtown, NSW: Woollahra. 940.041 SCA Scates, Bruce and Raelene Frances. 1997. Women and the Great War, Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. 940.426 MAR HIL Hill, Anthony. 2001. Soldier boy : the true story of Jim Martin the youngest ANZAC, Ringwood, Vic.: Penguin. Videos 940.394 WOR World War One: the Australian home front. 940.425 ANZ Anzac Day – World War One Videos 940.394 WOR World War One: the Australian home front 940.425 ANZ Anzac Day – World War One 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 War Memorial : Australians at War Online exhibitions, educational materials for students, photographs and artworks Statistics of Australia's involvement in Wars This month in Australia's Military History 1918: Australians in France 1918 Australians in France Picture Australia Searchable database of thousands of images Imagining Australia 1914–1918 Museum Victoria's online exhibition of Australian Life during the war years. Diaries, text & audio poems & animations Site for researching the ANZACs of World War 1 Includes menu for searching. Trenches on the web World War one. Includes menu for searching. Australia at War : a companion site for the TV series Includes animated documentaries, stories & personal histories Women and the war 1914 – 1918 Stories from World War 1 Navies of World War 1 or the Great War Military Stories and Anecdotes from World War 1 Stolen Years: Australian Prisoners of War The First World War.com this site has many useful sections: Memoirs and Diaries War Timeline Weapons of war World War 1 1914 -1916 The Australian Homefront During World War 1