Documenting a Democracy is a National Archives of Australia website - developed in partnership with Australia's eight state and territory government archives and the National Council for the Centenary of Federation - that provides 110 key documents, in both digital and transcription format, relating to the foundation of Australia. Key documents include nine sets of original legal and constitutional instruments for the creation and evolution of the Commonwealth, states and territories governments, accessed by either a place or map search tool. There is a Picture Album of people and places behind the documents; information on how Australia's constitutional boundaries were formed at Places; and an Australian history Timeline which shows what was happening when each document was written. There are also Pathways to documents on the themes of Foundation, Building, Freedoms and Land. This webpage includes a digital map of Aboriginal Australia before the advent of Europeans.
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The Early New Zealand Books Project has been developed by staff at The University of Auckland Library. It provides keyword-searchable text of significant books published about New Zealand in the nineteenth century.
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The Internet Archive offers over 20,000,000 freely downloadable ebooks and texts. There is also a collection of 1.3 million modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account.
This map links to Portable Document Format (PDF) files of individual Commonwealth electoral division maps for New South Wales and to an index map of Sydney electoral divisions.
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This site provides a searchable full-text edition of the encyclopedia. An expert or group of experts in the field maintains each entry. The site also contains an archive of earlier editions.
Contains full-text transcripts of criminal trials, from April 1674 to 1913 held at London's central criminal court. Many convicts sent to Australia were tried at the Old Bailey. The site includes English social history of the period.
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This database contains the English Reports (1220-1873) and is based on data provided by Justis. It consists of nearly 125,000 English decisions.
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This catalogue combines the Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue with content from Pollard and Redgrave's A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad 1473-1640 and Wings A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America and of English Books Printed in Other Countries 1641-1700, as well as newspapers and other serials which began publication before 1801. Its scope extends from the earliest printing in England (ca. 1473) through to the end of December, 1800. The ESTC can be used to find references to the Eighteenth Century and Early English Books online collections.
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An encyclopedia of all the languages currently in use throughout the world. Searchable by country or language name, and browsable through maps. For each language, there are details on where spoken, by how many speakers, language family and how the language is used today. Produced by linguistics organisation, SIL International.
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An online science news service, sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. It features health, science and technology news from leading research institutes.
The European Space Agency portal features the latest news in space science exploration, human spaceflight and the International Space Station, launchers, telecommunications and navigation.
The main source of European Union statistics, now available free online. Contains social, demographic, economic and environmental statistics for the European Union as a whole and for its member countries individually.
Search, view and order items from the British Library main catalogue of nearly 57 million records, or search the contents of the Library's website.
Whilst Explore the British Library gives access to the majority of the Library's collection, it does not yet include records from all the Library's catalogues.
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Order archival quality prints (photos or front pages) of The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian Financial Review, The Illawarra Mercury, The Newcastle Herald and The Canberra Times.
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A site for researching family of British or Anglo-Indian descent who lived and / or served within the Indian Sub-continent from 1600 to 1947
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If you grew up in a state or church institution or were in foster care, you may have been a State Ward. DoCS explains how you can find out if you have a Ward File and How to Request your file. Also see brochure Are you a former ward? http://www.community.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/319254/formerward_broch.pdf
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the Mormons) provides a searchable database of more than 300 million names including: Ancestral File and the International Genealogical Index. It also provides access to the Family History Library Catalogue as well as thousands of indexed web sites. Patrons visiting FamilySearch.org will see a prompt to register for a free account or to sign into their existing account to continue using all the free expanded benefits.
FamilySearch Wiki is a large, on-line library with thousands of articles and how-to instructions about doing family history. It is written by the community. You can edit an existing page or create your own. You can search by country or by subject.
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