Welcome to the history section of my site. On this page you will find a directory to the various articles and books archived on my site.

 

What's On This Page:

• Introduction
• Archive - Family History
• Archive - Australian History
  • General
  • Antartic
  • Christian History
  • Local History
  • New South Wales
  • Northern Territory
  • Military
  • Queensland
  • South Australia
  • Western Australia
• Archive - Australian Literature
• Archive - History: Areas of Interest (Articles and Links)
  • General History
  • British History (United Kingdom)
  • Greek History
  • Natural History
  • Roman History
  • Spanish History
  • United States History

 

INTRODUCTION:

As you will see, I'm very much into history. As you look over the various articles and books archived on my site, you will find that my historical interests are not limited to my own family, my local area or even my own country. I am interested in many areas of history throughout the world.

Not all the articles and books listed have working links. This is because I have not yet posted them on my site. Those not working indicate articles and books that will eventually make their way onto my site. This is a work in progress and will always be so. The directory will only continue to grow as time goes by.

Please feel free to pass on for consideration any article that you think will be of relevance to the site.

 

ARCHIVE - FAMILY HISTORY:

• 1881-1920: Samuel Lilley and the Mulwee School
• 1900s: Samuel Lilley and Ruby White
• 1930s and 1940s: Arthur Matthews - War Poetry and compositions
• Around November 20th: Arthur Matthews
• Bibliography for Site
• Cambrai Day - 1976: Arthur Matthews
• Cemetery Transcriptions
• Commemoration Service for the 50th Anniversary of Dunkirk: Arthur Matthews
• Dedicated to Hiroshima: Arthur Matthews
• Dunkirk - Codename "Dynamo": Arthur Matthews
• Swan Bay History
• Thoughts For a November Day: Arthur Matthews
• Tour of the Battlefields, A: Arthur Matthews
• Why Anzac?: Arthur Matthews

 

ARCHIVE - AUSTRALIAN HISTORY:

General:

• Autobiography, An: Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910)
   
• Australian Discovery: Ernest Scott
  
  Located off site.
   
• Australian Explorers, The: George Grimm (WORK CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS)
   
• Australian Legendary Tales - Folk-lore of the Noongahburrahs as told to the Piccaninnies: K. Langloh Parker (1856-1940)
   
• Australian Search Party: Charles Henry Eden
   
• Australia Twice Traversed - The Romance of Exploration: Ernest Giles
   
• Chronology Of Australian History
   
• Euahlayi Tribe, The - A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia: K. Langloh Parker
   
• Eureka Stockade, The (1855): Carboni Raffaello
   
• Exploration Time Line
   
• History of Australia from 1787 to 1882 - James Allen
   
• History of Australian Exploration From 1788 to 1888, The: Ernest Favenc
   
• Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia: Ludwig Leichhardt
   
• Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings of Australia in 1852-53, A: Mrs Charles (Ellen) Clacy
   
• Life and Voyages of Captain James Cook, The
   
• Matthew Flinders Electronic Archive
   
• Narrative of an Expedition Undertaken Under the Direction of the Late Mr. Assistant Surveyor E. B. Kennedy (1849): William Carron
   
• Oceanic Mythology: Roland B. Dixon
   
• Reminiscences of Australia - James T. Ryan
   
• Short History of Australia, A: Ernest Scott (1868-1939)
   
• Two Expeditions Into the Interior of Southern Australia, During the Years 1828, 1829, 1830, and 1831: With Observations on the Soil, Climate, and General Resources of the Colony of New South Wales (1833): Captain Charles Sturt
   
• William Dampier (1889): W Clark Russell

 

Antartic:

• Account of the Norwegian Antartic Expedition in the 'Fram,' 1910 - 1912: Roald Amundsen
   
• Home of the Blizzard, The: Sir Douglas Mawson
   
• South: Sir Ernest Shackleton

 

Christian History:

• Illustrated History of Methodism In Great Britain, America and Australia - W. H. Daniels

 

Local History:

• Barnsley History
• Boolaroo History
• Booragul History
• Carrington History
• Copeland History
• Edgeworth History
• Speers Point History
• Stroud History
• Swan Bay History
• Teralba History
• Warners Bay History

 

New South Wales:

• Address to the Inhabitants Of The Colonies, established in New South Wales And Norfolk Island, An: Richard Johnson
   
• Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson, A: Watkin Tench
   
• Epitome of the Official History of New South Wales from the Foundation of the Colony in 1788 to the Close of the First Session of the Eleventh Parliament under Responsible Government in 1883, An. Compiled Chiefly from the Official and Parliamentary Records of the Colony (1883): Thomas Richards
   
• Geography of New South Wales - J. M. Taylor
   
• Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales, both as a Penal Settlement and as a British Colony, An - Volume 1 (1837): John Dunmore Land, D.D.
   
• Historical and Statistical Account of New South Wales, both as a Penal Settlement and as a British Colony, An - Volume 2 (1837): John Dunmore Land, D.D.
   
• History of New South Wales From the Records - Volume 1 Governor Phillip 1783-1789 (1889): G B Barton (WORK CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS)  
   
• Journal of Gregory Blaxland, 1813, The: Gregory Blaxland (1778-1853)
   
• Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales: John Oxley
   
• Life and Work of Samuel Marsden - Rev J. B. Marsden
   
• Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay, A: Watkin Tench

 

Northern Territory:

• Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia: Baldwin Spencer

 

Military:

I will be seeking to piece together a military history of Australia on a separate page. To visit the page:

• Australia's military history

 

Queensland:

• Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine, from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland Compiles from the Journals of the Brothers: Edited by Frederick J. Byerley

 

South Australia:

• Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central Australia And Overland From Adelaide To King George's Sound In The Years 1840-1: Sent By The Colonists Of South Australia, With The Sanction And Support Of The Government: Including An Account Of The Manners And Customs Of The Aborigines And The State Of Their Relations With Europeans: Edward John Eyre
   
• Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia Complete: Charles Sturt
   

 

Western Australia:

• Spinifex and Sand - Five Years' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Australia: David W Carnegie

 

ARCHIVE - AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE:

• An Anthology of Australian Verse: Edited by Bertram Stevens
   
• Australia Felix: Henry Handel Richardson (1870-1946)
   
• Joe Wilson and His Mates: Henry Lawson
   
• Mates at Billabong: Mary Grant Bruce (1878-1958)
   
• Robbery Under Arms - A Story of Life and Adventure in the Bush and in the Goldfields of Australia: Rolf Boldrewood (Pseudonym of Thomas Alexander Browne)
   
• Saltbush Bill, J.P., and Other Verses: A. B. Paterson
   
• Seven Little Australians: Ethel Turner
   
• Shearing In The Riverina, New South Wales: Rolf Boldrewood [Thomas Alexander Browne] (1826-1915)
   
• Such is Life: Joseph Furphy
   
• The Man from Snowy River: Andrew Barton `Banjo' Paterson
   
• We of the Never-Never: Jeanie "Mrs. Aeneas" Gunn
   

 

ARCHIVE - HISTORY: Areas of Interest (Articles and Links):

General History

• ANCIENT HISTORY OF THE EGYPTIANS, CARTHAGINIANS, ASSYRIANS, BABYLONIANS, MEDES AND PERSIANS, GRECIANS AND MACEDONIANS, THE (VOLUMES 1 AND 2) - M. Rollin

 

British History (United Kingdom):

• ALFRED THE GREAT:
  
  Wessex - England
  
   
• ASSER, JOHN:
  
  Bishop of Sherborne and Biographer of Alfred the Great
  
   
• EGBERT
  
   
• HEPTARCHY
  
  
  
• HISTORY OF CIVILISATION IN ENGLAND (VOLUMES 1 AND 2): Henry Thomas Buckle
  
  
  
• HISTORY OF ENGLAND: Arthur D. Innes
  
   
• DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, THE
  
  
  
• NAVAL AND MILITARY HEROES
  
  This is an old book dating from about 1855 (the last date mentioned in the various calendars in the book is in 1854 and the preface is dated 1855). The book provides calendars for both the army and navy of England, in which important dates for both are remembered.
  
  
• PRINCIPAL NAVIGATIONS, VOYAGES, TRAFFIQUES & DISCOVERIES OF THE ENGLISH NATION MADE BY SEA OR OVERLAND TO THE REMOTE & FARTHEST DISTANT QUARTERS OF THE EARTH AT ANY TIME WITHIN THE COMPASSE OF THESE 1600 YEARES, THE: Richard Hakluyt

 

Greek History:

• ATHENIAN EMPIRE, THE: Rev. Sir George W. Cox

 

Natural History:

• KRAKATOA:
  
  Krakatoa is the best known of the world's volcanoes. The eruption (explosion) of 1883 was the greatest volcanic eruption in recorded history, killing at least 36 000 people.

 

Roman History:

• CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES ON THE GALLIC AND CIVIL WARS
  
   
• HISTORY OF ROME: Mandell Creighton
  
  
  
• HISTORY OF ROME FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE EMPIRE: Henry G. Liddell
  
  
  
• HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE: Edward Gibbon

 

Spanish History:

• HISTORY OF THE REIGN OF CHARLES V (VOLUMES 1 AND 2): William Robertson

 

United States History:

• CABOT: GIOVANNI and SEBASTIAN
  
   
• HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, FROM THE DISCOVERY OF THE AMERICAN CONTINENT (VOLUMES 1 AND 2) - George Bancroft
  
   
• WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
  
  This link will take you to a growing directory of articles and works concerning the American War of Independence.
  
   
• CIVIL WAR
  
  This link will take you to a growing directory of articles and works concerning the American Civil War.

 

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25/04/2008

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