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1. FreeMap History

Tony Campbell: Online guide to all issues concerning historical maps and links ot historical map images.

2. FreeConnected Histories, British History Sources 1500 - 1900

: Connected Histories provides an integrated search facility for interrogating a number of major online resources in early modern and 19th-century British history. The single

3. FreeArt History Resources on the Web

An extensive collection of both imagery and scholarship, this gateway covers art history from the prehistoric to the 20th century. It also has links to research resources, art

4. FreeFamily History South Australia

FamilyHistorySA.info: Genealogy and family history information about South Australians and their ancestors at home and abroad. Shipping and passenger lists up to 1842. Marriages up to 1845. Links

5. FreeCompanion to Tasmanian History

Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies, University of Tasmania: The website provides information about every important aspect of Tasmanias's history, covering all periods and all places. Expanded version of the print work of the same title.

6. OnsiteAmerica: History and Life

ABC-CLIO: America; History and Life covers the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. (Literature on the history of the rest of the world is covered

7. FreeAustralian Media History Database

Centre for Media History, Macquarie University: The Australian Media History Database lists sources, resources, courses and current researchers in the field of Australian media history. The database aspires to list all research

8. FreeHAT - The History of Australian Theatre On Line

Contains articles about Australian Theatre history and a 3500 entry historical database of people associated with Australian Theatre.

9. FreeThe Manning Index of South Australian History

State Library of South Australia: This index contains many thousands of references to South Australian newspaper and magazine stories for the years 1837 to 1937. It also includes extensive selected text from the indexed publications, other primary and secondary sources and numerous extracts from Mr Manning's own writings. Notable publications (selectively) indexed include Adelaide Times, Advertiser, Chronicle, The Critic, Express & Telegraph, Frearson's Weekly, The Herald, Illustrated Adelaide Post, The Irish Harp, The Lantern, The Mail, The News, Observer, Register, SA Gazette & Mining Journal, and Southern Australian. The index is divided into the four folders: South Australia - includes coverage of a number of state level topics; Adelaide - includes a number of topics which predominately relate to the city and the metropolitan area as a whole; Port Adelaide; and Place Names of South Australia - an alphabetical list of South Australian place names (including suburbs of Adelaide). Biographical references are generally located on pages dealing with the place or activity with which a person is most associated. For example, several references to aviator Jimmy Melrose can be found in the entry for Melrose Park. Many Place Name pages have a list of obituaries of notable residents - generally at the bottom of the page or part of page dealing with the place.

10. OnsiteAustralasian Military History Database - MIHLIST

Informit: Covers pre-1980 Australian, New Zealand and Papua-New Guinean military history and related topics.

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Our subject guides

"Australian history: selected websites"

These are selected sites for researching Australian history on the Internet and provide a starting place for researchers in this field. They lead to a diverse range of information on Australian history resources as well as providing links to other useful sites.

"Australian history; print resources"

A guide to the printed resources relating to Australian history at the National Library. In addition to the works mentioned here the Library holds a large range of primary and secondary resources on this topic.

"Family history sources in the Newspapers and Microforms Reading Room"

A guide to Australian and selected overseas genealogy resources, including births, deaths and marriages registers, electoral rolls, government records, and shipping records. Arranged by subject within a State or Country.

"Australian family history and genealogy: selected websites"

This resource contains links to a variety of information relating to family history and genealogy including guides, indexes and digitised images of documents. It also provides links to other informative sites and contact with other family historians via indexed family trees, mailing lists and bulletin boards.

"Mura Gadi : a guide to manuscript, pictorial and oral history materials relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the National Library of Australia"

Mura Gadi is an online guide to significant manuscripts, pictures and oral histories in the National Library of Australia relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples prior to 2003. Although it does not list the many books, periodicals and other publications in the Library relating to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, these materials can be found using the Library's online catalogue at http://www.nla.gov.au/catalogue/

"Australian companies; print resources"

A guide to selected printed works relating to companies at the National Library. Includes references to company directories, annual reports and histories

"Cemetery records"

A guide to cemetery records held at the National Library of Australia. Contains print sources only; microfiche guides are listed in the online guide called Family History Sources in the Newspapers and Microforms Reading Room.

"Australian censuses and musters; print resources"

A guide to printed information relating to census and muster resources at the National Library of Australia. A large proportion of the census information held at the National Library is kept in microform format. Further information on how to find these items can be found in Family History Sources in the Newspapers and Microforms Reading Room (available on eResources).