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Account of a Voyage around the World - English translation of the nineteenth century Welsh Work 'Hanes Mordaith o amgylch y Ddaear'. Includes the original Welsh text.
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http://oldwelshbooks.net/hlc/hm/hmc.html
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An Anthology of the Discovery of Australia - What the first visitors saw and why they attached names to coastal features. Includes quotes, with comments in italics, from their diaries, especially from Matthew Flinders.
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http://kr.cs.ait.ac.th/~radok/discaust/
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Anne-Maree Whitaker - Anne-Maree Whitaker is an independent professional historian. She has published widely in Australian Catholic and Irish Australian topics. Her latest book is about Joseph Foveaux.
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http://www.geocities.com/joseph_foveaux/
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Australia Beyond the Fatal Shore - Companion website to the PBS series written and hosted by Robert Hughes. An introduction to some of the individuals Robert Hughes talks with and about as he explores the history and culture of Australia.
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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/australia/
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Australia's Cultural Network - Articles and links relevant to Australia's history. Take the history path finder to narrow the items down to ones related to history.
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http://www.acn.net.au/
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Australia, Australians & Us. - A lighthearted, Historical, Geographical and Cultural look at Australia and events that shaped Australia into what it is today, designed for non Australians and those foreign to our shores.
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http://australasia.freewebsitehosting.com
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Australian Australia - Historical and cultural information about Australia and Australians.
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http://www.australianaustralia.com/page/History/238
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Australian Explorers - General information on eleven different explorers for primary school children.
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http://www.davidreilly.com/australian_explorers/
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Australian History - Overview from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, with links to cited attractions.
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http://www.dfat.gov.au/aib/history.html
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Australian History on the Internet - Part of the National Library of Australia site, this site includes many interesting links, including Australian historical documents online.
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http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/histsite.html
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Australian Medical Pioneers Index - A biographical database of Australian doctors to 1875. Includes background material on medical history, colonial medical life, medical qualifications and timeline
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http://www.medicalpioneers.com
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Convict Creations - Historical background on Australian convict culture, information on a selection of artists, and convict-inspired crafts.
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http://www.convictcreations.com
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German-speakers in Australia - History of German-speakers in Australia, of their immigration and of their contribution to Australia.
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http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/dnutting/germanaustralia/
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History of Australia - General history of Australia, from the World History Archives.
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http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/24/index-c.html
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History of Morse in Australia - A fascinating look into the early days of wireless telegraphy in Australia with photographs from the Overseas Telecommunications Commission archives.
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http://www.satellite-terminals.com/radio_history/default.htm
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Indigenous Peoples: the Aboriginal Peoples of Australia - Illustrated and carefully annotated guide to links focused specifically on the history, lore, sacred traditions, arts, and beliefs of the Aboriginal Peoples of Australia by Kathleen Jenks, Ph.D.
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http://www.mythinglinks.org/ip~australia.html
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Lassereria - Encyclopedia and commentary on the search for Harold Lasseter and his lost gold reef.
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http://www.lasseteria.com
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Nineteenth Century Exploration of Australia - Features an 1893 map of explorers' routes, plus links to online biographies of the explorers, and the text of a book chapter on Australian exploration by naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace.
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http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/australia/
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Radical Tradition - Articles on 'the history of working class struggle and anarchism in Australia'.
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http://www.takver.com/history/index.htm
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Rare Maps Digitisation Project - A selection of rare maps from the National Library of Australia.
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http://www.nla.gov.au/rmaps/
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SNOWY - The Making of Modern Australia - History of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme covering social, political, cultural and industrial aspects.
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http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/snowy
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The Public History Site - A site offering information, contacts and resources for historians working in the public sphere. Includes a wide range of links.
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http://www.publichistory.uts.edu.au/
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Timeline of Aboriginal Resistance - Short descriptions of incidents of Aboriginal resistance to European invasion.
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http://users.tpg.com.au/2juls/resistance.html
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Totalisator history a world's first - The history of the invention of the world's first automatic totalisator in Australia in 1913 by George Julius.
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http://members.ozemail.com.au/~bconlon/index.html
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VL: Australia History - Extensive links to articles and scholarly resources from the WWW Virtual Library History Network, maintained by Philip George of Index NZ.
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http://vlib.iue.it/history/oceania/Australia/index.html
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