PPHS World History Immersion

Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) was the botanist who sailed with Captain James Cook on his first voyage of exploration into the Pacific region between 1768 and 1771. Banks was one of several scientists on the voyage that began a massive expansion in European knowledge about the Pacific region. In subsequent years, he remained extensively involved in Pacific exploration and early Australian colonial life as well as in other globally-focused initiatives of European science and politics. he collection includes 10,000 manuscript pages, arranged in 96 series and divided into 19 subject headings.

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Welcome to Australian Periodical Publications 1840-1845 - a digital library of Australian journals that began publication between 1840-1845.

This site provides full transcripts of diaries written over thirteen years by Lachlan Macquarie (1761-1824), governor of colonial New South Wales between 1810 and 1822, and his wife, Elizabeth (1778-1835). Elizabeth Macquarie’s diary (roughly 20,000 words) describes the couple’s journey to Australia in 1809, including accounts of Madeira, Rio de Janeiro, and Cape Town. Her husband’s diaries are in eight sections (ranging from 2,000 to 15,000 words), each recording official tours of inspection to parts of the New South Wales interior and to Van Diemen’s Land (present-day Tasmania). The diary charts a significant moment in the history of European expansion. Lachlan Macquarie’s governorship is widely regarded as ushering in the consolidation of the European colonies in Australia. He embarked on an ambitious program of public works, redesigned Sydney, and fostered social reformation and the emergence of free institutions in the convict colony. It was during his administration that the first moves of European expansion into the interior of the continent were undertaken.

This website provides extensive information about the history of Australia at war, through primary and secondary material, as well as information about the memorial itself. Major conflicts covered by this site range from the Anglo-Maori Wars in New Zealand (1860�1866) to the 2003 Iraq War. There are two main categories of databases on the site—Collections databases and Biographical databases.

Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) was the botanist who sailed with Captain James Cook on his first voyage of exploration into the Pacific region between 1768 and 1771. Banks was one of several scientists on the voyage that began a massive expansion in European knowledge about the Pacific region. In subsequent years, he remained extensively involved in Pacific exploration and early Australian colonial life as well as in other globally-focused initiatives of European science and politics. he collection includes 10,000 manuscript pages, arranged in 96 series and divided into 19 subject headings.

20 years of cultural history in billions of webpage snapshots

Search by name or crime to see records of individuals sentenced to transportation to Australia.

Storylines is a State Library of Western Australia project to explore, identify and return Aboriginal heritage material from our collections. The project team is working with community members to identify people, places and stories in the photographs and other materials. We welcome any new information about items in this archive.

The maps and plans prepared since 1829 by the Survey Office and its succeeding agencies document the allocation of land holdings in Western Australia over time.

As well as early explorations and surveys, key collections of these plans include what are known as 'cancelled public plans'. The concept of a cancelled public plan is simple. In the 1800s, the Surveyor General introduced the practice of making land plans available for public inspection. These plans were working plans, continually updated to reflect the status of lands as they were assigned to occupiers, made open for selection, reserved for government use, etc. As each plan became populated with information and amendments, it was 'cancelled' and replaced by a new public plan which itself was then used as the new working plan (and amended, corrected and added to). In this manner, these is a succession of cancelled public plans for a given area of land, prepared at different points in time and showing how land has been allocated since the mid 1800s.

Newspapers and gazettes from 1803 - present

The George Handy Bates Samoan papers are made up of correspondence, documents, memoranda, clippings, photographs, and other material relating to George Handy Bates's tenure as a special investigator into Samoan affairs beginning in 1886, and as a commissioner to the 1889 Berlin Conference on Samoan Affairs.

In summer of 1966, Joan Griffis was recruited by the National Association of Broadcasters to work as an on-air teacher in American Samoa. For the next two years, she worked in Pago Pago, American Samoa, teaching English as a second language, with her lessons being broadcast to high schools on all of the American Samoan islands. She then spent an additional two years at the Feleti Teacher Training school—later the American Samoan Community College—where she and a small staff worked closely with Samoan high school students, helping them prepare for college on the mainland, while also conducting teacher training classes. In 1970, she returned to the continental United States.

Over the course of four years in American Samoa she also shot more than 1,200 slides, with a major interests being traditional Samoan crafts and life. “When it was appropriate we used some of the slides in my televised English lessons,” she now says. “Samoa was changing rapidly and many of the traditional crafts were not being taught to Samoan youth.”

The eighteen slides in this online collection depict the process of making siapo, as bark-cloth is known in Samoa. The slides were donated by Ms. Griffis to the Pacific Collection in 2009, in conjunction with another major gift to the University of Hawaii Library: A full-size siapo piece made by Mary Pritchard, one of world’s preeminent makers of traditional bark-cloth, and the person most often credited for reviving the nearly lost art in Samoa. Sort by "Title" to view the images in chronological order.

Newspapers, Magazines and Journals, Letters and Diaries, and Parliamentary Papers from the mid 1800s - present