Access academic content from over 200 scholarly publishers, including university presses like Princeton, Yale and California.
Full access to Cambridge’s Histories & Companions titles.
Brings together material from within former British colonies and Commonwealth nations, alongside some from former French and Portuguese territories.
BBC History Magazine is a British publication devoted to both British and world history and aimed at all levels of knowledge and interest.
Historical Records of Australian Science published by the CSIRO records the history of science, pure and applied, in Australia, New Zealand and the southwest Pacific.
Open Library collects details of published books. It also holds loanable copies of ebooks including some about or from Australia. It makes audiobooks available to print for disabled people.
The National Library of Scotland Maps site contains many high-resolution, colour, zoomable maps. The maps are mainly of Scotland and date from 1560 to 1970.
NationalMap is an online map-based tool. It allows easy access to spatial data from Australian government agencies. Various datasets can be overlaid and explored on the map.
The Historical Aerial Photography collection tracks the use and development of land. It is a helpful way of locating places in Australia from 1928 to the present.
Australian medical pioneers is a database of early Australian doctors. It includes doctors who were resident in Australia up to 1875.
Map Search allows layering of various historical Australian maps over current maps. It provides an interactive way of exploring how places have changed over time.
The Australian Dictionary of Biography contains biographical information on over 13,000 people. It is a useful source of historical information on notable Australians.