History

• Argus Index - The Argus, published in Melbourne from 1846-1957, was the quality newspaper of record in the nineteenth and first part of the twentieth century. This index to the Argus covers the decade 1870-1879
• atmitchell.com - Free online access to the State Library's collection of treasures relating to Australia's heritage and culture. Includes a comprehensive record of life in NSW from early exploration to the present day
• Australian History on the Internet - An annotated directory of websites relating to Australian history compiled by the National Library of Australia
• Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material - The professional organisation for conservators in Australia.
• Australian National Maritime Museum - Articles on shipping and an index to photographs of ships
• Australian National Shipwrecks Database - A database of all known shipwrecks in Australian waters.
• Australia's Maritime World - Maritime history and today's sea, ship and shore achievements, attractions, activities and adventures
• Australia's Prime Ministers
• Belongings: Post-WW2 migration memories & journeys - Belongings tells the stories of migrants who arrived in the decades after the Second World War through personal mementos, photographs and memories
• Burke & Wills Web - Historical resources relevant to the study of the Burke & Wills expedition across Australia in the 1860’s
• Cook, James, 1728-1779.. Journal of the H.M.S. Endeavour, 1768-1771 [manuscript]. - The National Library of Australia has digitized the Endeavour Journal and made it available online. It's a ship's diary from Captain James Cook.
• Historic Houses Trust of NSW
• Historical Parliamentary Information
• Illawarra Images on the Web - historical image collection from Wollongong City Library
• Migration Heritage Centre - The Migration Heritage Centre identifies, records, preserves and interprets the heritage of migration and settlement in the State of New South Wales, Australia from 1788 to the present day
• Nineteenth Century Exploration of Australia
• NSW Heritage Office - including the State Heritage Inventory and guidelines and publications on heritage policy and management
• Objects through time - Objects through Time takes you on an online journey. Explore important chapters, places and events in Australian migration history.
• Picman - pictures and manuscripts in the State Library of New South Wales
• Picture Australia - images of people, places and events in the collections of libraries, museums, galleries, archives, universities and other cultural agencies, in Australia and abroad
• Pictures Catalogue - National Library of Australia Pictorial Collection
• Register of the National Estate - includes listings for more than 12,000 places of natural, historic and indigenous significance
• The Making of Modern Australia - The website where people can share their own stories of living in Australia since 1945. The creators of the documentary TV series "The Making of Modern Australia" will read the stories and may use some of them in the series screening on ABC TV in 2010.
• The Menzies Era - Popular culture from 1949 - 1972
• Visit Gallipoli - The ANZAC Site commemorating 90 years since the Gallipoli landing. ANZAC Day is April 25th

• 4000 Years of Women in Science
• 500 Most Important People of the 20th Century - Includes a short biography and a photo of each person and is an excellent starting point for researching a person.
• Australian Athlete Profiles
• Australian Dictionary of Biography - Online edition - Australia's pre-eminent dictionary of national biography. Here are over 10,000 scholarly biographies of significant Australians who died before 1980
• Biographical Dictionary
• Biography.com
• British Monarchy
• Celebrity Link - Celebrity Link contains a huge directory of links to sites dedicated to celebrities. The links are checked regularly.
• Dead or Alive? - This site tracks whether famous people are still alive or whether they have passed away.
• Distinguished Women of Past and Present - Includes writers, educators, scientists, heads of state, politicians, civil rights crusaders, artists, entertainers, and others.
• EncycloComedia - The Comedian's Who's Who - from Abbott & Costello to Zacherley
• GoodBye! The Journal of Contemporary Obituaries - an opinionated magazine which chronicles the dead - famous, infamous and non-famous.
• History of Mathematics archive - Features biographies of mathematicians
• History of Women in Sports Timeline - A chronology of the history of female athletes around the world, beginning in 776 BC and continuing through the present
• National Portrait Gallery - Over 28,000 portraits online. Visitors can look at renderings of Samuel Johnson, Henry VIII, and other luminaries and search the entire collection of 50,167 portraits online
• PeopleSpot - Communities, people finders, biographies, records and more.
• The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela - The story of the man behind the myth
• The Nobel Prize Internet Archive
• Who2? Find Famous People Fast
• Who's who (Fashion) - Profiles and biographies of fashion designers

• American President: Resource on the U.S. Presidents - In-depth information reviewed by prominent scholars on each president and administration.
• Archaeology - A publication of the Archaeological Institute of America
• Bissonnette on Costume - a visual dictionary of fashion
• Costume History
• Encyclopedia Titanica - A unique resource for anyone interested in the Titanic
• Fashion Era - Looks at women's costume and fashion history and analyses the mood of an era.
• Historic Scotland - In our web site you can find information on more than 300 properties in our care and Scotland's listed buildings and scheduled ancient monuments.
• History Explorer - This is an interactive timeline of American history. It features collections, exhibitions and programs from the National Museum of American History including a world map from 1511 and Plymouth Rock.
• History of Commercial Aviation
• History of Fashion in Slides - A collection of images representing the history of fashion, primarily in the Western World, from the "prehistoric" to the present day.
• History of flight from around the world - Features country profiles for nearly two dozen countries and pioneer profiles for individuals such as Lawrence Hargrave, Amelia Earhart and the Wright brothers. Browse by maps or persons.
• JewishEncyclopedia.com - This website contains the complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906
• MedHist - A guide to history of medicine resources on the Internet
• Money - Past, Present & Future - Includes monetary history, forms of money and 'Current Value of Old Money' link
• Oxford Reference Online - Enter your library barcode and select History to seach a collection of biographical and historical dictionaries
• The Costumer's Manifesto - Links to the history of costume and fashion
• The Presidents of the United States - potted biographies and images of presidents from 1789 to the present.
• Timeline Index - People, Events, Periods and Places in a chronological context
• Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation - The aim of this site is to make the complete records of Howard Carter's excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun available.
• UK Castles - A directory of castles built in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, is arranged by country, and then by county.
• UK Documents Online - Online access to The UK National Archives' collection of digitised public records, including both academic and genealogical sources. Includes colour images of the original wills of selected famous people. Searching the index is free but there is a charge to download images

• ANZAC Day - From the Australian Government's Culture and Recreation Portal.
• ANZAC Day - Teaching and Learning about ANZAC Day - From the New South Wales Board of Studies.
• Australian Army War Diaries - Excerpts of digitised diaries from those who served Australia during the First and Second World Wars, the Korean War,and in the South East Asian conflicts.
• Australian War Memorial - A must see site for information about Australians at War. Includes access to the Memorial's biographical and collection databases
• Australians at War
• Australia's War 1939-1945 - WW2 site established by the Department of Veteran's Affairs
• Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System - Contains information on over six million soldiers and sailors from 44 states and territories who were involved in the Civil War.
• Commonwalth War Graves Commission - Has Debt of Honour Register for all British & Commonwealth war dead in World War I & II
• Despatches From Gallipoli - Charles Bean, Keith Murdoch, Phillip Schuler and Charles Smith were four Australians who went to Gallipoli as journalists during World War 1. This website aims to introduce these men and their writing, as well as to highlight their role in the development of an Australian identity.
• Digger History - An unofficial history of the Australian Armed Services
• First World War.Com
• Historic government publications from World War II - Digital library of US government documents, and photographs, with links to other WWII history sites
• Mapping Our Anzacs - Interactive, searchable database leading to digitised images of war records for individuals throughout Australia
• Medals of the World - Images and descriptions of thousands of medals from around the world
• Military history - Jensen's Web Sources for Wars & World Military History
• Nominal Roll of Vietnam Veterans - The Nominal Roll of Vietnam Veterans honours and commemorates the men and women who served in the Royal Australian Navy, Australian Army and Royal Australian Air Force in Vietnam, or in the waters adjacent to Vietnam, during the conflict between 23 May 1962 and 29 April 1975
• Register of war memorials in New South Wales
• The Australians at War Film Archive - A record of the stories of over two thousand war veterans.
• The Battle of the Somme - Find out how the Battle was planned and fought, about the experiences of the people who were involved and about the battlefields today.
• Vietnam Project - The Virtual Vietnam Archive "enables scholars, students and all interested in this remarkable period in our world history to conduct research directly from universities, schools, libraries, and homes.
• Vietnam War - Australian involvement
• War Times Journal Portal - The Portal link list is an on-line military resource for researchers, hobbyists, military professionals and all others with an interest in military history, science and defense
• World War 1 - Trenches on the Web - These pages contain information on the people, places, and events that comprised one of the worst calamities of modern history
• World War 1Colour Photos - World War I.... who would have thought there were original colour photos of WWI? This site contains hundreds of photos taken by the French in the last two years of World War One.
• World War I Document Archive - Primary documents of WWI including conventions, treaties, official papers, documents by year, personal reminiscences and a biographical dictionary
• World War Two Nominal Roll - Information from the service records of some one million individuals who served during World War Two

• BBC History - Includes in-depth articles, timelines and short biographies of historic figures. Covers a broad range of topics from ancient history to wars and conflict
• Best of History Web Sites - An anthology of online history resources.
• British History Online - The digital library of text and information about people, places and businesses from the medieval and early modern period, built by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust
• HyperHistory Online - HyperHistory presents 3,000 years of world history with an interactive combination of synchronoptic lifelines, timelines, and maps.
• Mostly Medieval - Exploring the Middle Ages
• On This Day - Highlights worldwide historical events using audio and video clips from the archives of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Browse events by date, year (1950 to present), or themes such as conflicts and wars, disasters, science, and royalty
• The World Fact Book of International Disputes - Summarizes specific historical and current disputes listed under the countries involved
• TheHistoryNet - From the world's largest publisher of history magazines
• ViewFinder - Online image resource for England's history
• WebChron - historical and cross-cultural chronologies including Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Western Civilization
• World Heritage List
• Year by Year 1900-2001 - Historic events of the 20th Century