Local Area Collection

This is the story of Leslie Mather DSO, an officer in the Australian Engineers, who served with distinction from the landing at Gallipoli right through the terrible three years of trench warfare on the Western Front. He was amongst the first to sail for the European theatre of war and one of the ...

Hannie Rayson - writer, mother, daughter, sister, wife, romantic, adventuress, parking-spot optimist - has spent a lifetime giving voice to others in the many roles she has written for stage and screen. In her new book, she shines the spotlight on herself. This collection of stories from a dramat...

Suburbs at War examines the homefront experience during the Frist World War (1914-1918) in the former Cities of Malvern and Prahran (now the City of Stonnington) in south-east Melbourne. It traces the local background to the War, the military training and recruitment of local men and the ways in ...

The history of approximately 1000 institutes including building status, social, adult education, library history, heritage listings, plus thematic essays about the Mechanics Institute movement, the role of women, architecture, schools of art, schools of design and schools of mines. This is the mo...

"As Australia commemorates the 100th Anniversary of the ANZAC landing at Gallipoli, it is both saddening and heart-warming to pause and reflect on those who died serving their communites and their country as surf lifesavers. Graham Ford, President, Surf Life Saving Australia, 2015"--Bookjacket.

A collection of 76 Victorian directories (131,065 pages, 15,652,740 names, estimate). Supplied on USB flash drive with master index enabling searching the entire collection in a single search, in fully searchable PDF files-scans of the original pages, with underlying searchable text. Unlike many ...

Annotation. Yalukit Willam - The River People of Port Phillip is published by the City of Port Phillip in consultation with the Boon Wurrung Foundation which describes the Aboriginal history of the City from settlement to today, including its significant Aboriginal cultural places. Before the arr...

100 stories of St. Leonard's College on its 100th birthday.

Annotation. This series presents 28 years of Thomas' journals, transcribed and annotated by Dr Marguerita Stephens (Vols 1-3). Vol 4 provides a substantial collection of Thomas' records of Kulin language - some reworked from earlier transcriptions by Dr Stephen Morey. For nearly three decades Wil...

Annotation. A story of 10th Brighton (St James) Scout Group. One of the most influential scout groups in Victoria, Australia, 1937 to 1965.

It's long overdue for the Henry Rayner story to be told, and this new biography at last gives people a chance to learn about his life and work. The book covers Rayner's formative years growing up in Australia and New Zealand, his arrival in England in 1923, his experiences at the Royal Academy Sc...