Encyclopædia Britannica Online includes the complete encyclopaedia online along with additional material. Also included are Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopaedia and the Britannica Book of the Year. You can use Encyclopædia Britannica Online to search an Internet directory that includes more than 300,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors. Document supply available.
Cambridge Companions Online is a fully searchable, full text collection of over 360 titles from the renowned Cambridge Companion series.
The subject areas covered are literature, classics, philosophy, religion and cultural studies. Cambridge Collections Online is regularly updated with new titles in the Companion series.
A searchable online collection of more than 260 volumes published in various history series by Cambridge University Press since 1960.
This collection provides unique authoritative content covering history in 15 different subject areas including world history, ancient and medieval history, economics, science, literature, philosophy and religion.
Collections of monographs, manuscripts, and newspaper accounts covering key issues of economics, world politics, and international strategy. Some key topics such as: Partition of Africa and British Imperial Policy, the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902, the Fashoda Incident, the Witwatersrand Gold Mining Industry, African response to Imperialism, the "Scramble for Africa", Chinese emigration, etc. Document supply available. Part of Nineteenth Century Collections Online.
This database contains digital images of a wide range of original documents, including diaries, letters, trench journals, personal narratives, memoirs, ephemera, objects (shown in 3D), propaganda recruitment posters, sheet music, postcards, scrapbooks, sketches and paintings, and trench maps. The database covers the wars in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Balkans, Eastern Front, Gallipoli, Home Front, Italian Front, Middle East, war at sea and in the air, as well as the Western Front.
An archival research resource containing a vast collection of rare magazines by and for servicemen and women of all nations during the First World War. Over 1,500 periodicals written and illustrated by serving members of the armed forces and associated welfare organisations published between 1914 and the end of 1919 are included.
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Contains photographs, reports and minutes, correspondence, diaries and press cuttings along with interpretative essays from leading scholars. Together these documents form an indispensable resource for the study of 20th-Century social, political, military and gender history.
Federal Department of Veterans' Affairs website providing access to the following military nominal rolls: (1) First World War Nominal Roll (2) World War Two Nominal Roll (3) Australian Veterans of the Korean War Also listed are some 1,600 Australian civilians awarded or eligible to receive the Vietnam Logistics and Support Medal (VLSM).
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The Australian War Memorial's national collection covers Australia's past involvment in the following armed conflicts : New Zealand (Maori Wars) 1860-1866; Sudan (NSW contigent) 1885; South Africa (Boer War) 1899-1902; China (Boxer Uprising) 1900-1901; the First World War (1914-1918); the Second World War (1939-1945); British Commonwealth Occupation Forces (1946-1952); the Malayan Emergency (1948-1960); the Korean War (1950-1953); Indonesian Confrontation (1963-1966); the Vietnam War (1962-1972); the Gulf War (1990-1991); East Timor (1999 - ); Afghanistan (2000 - ); Iraq (2003 - ) and various peacekeeping operations.
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A digital library of documents about people, places and businesses from the medieval and early modern period, created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust. Includes some volumes from the Victoria County History series as well as links to directories and lists such as the Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, which lists officials in the Church of England 1541-1857.
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This site provides personal and service details and places of commemoration for the 1.7 million members of the Commonwealth forces who died in the First or Second World Wars. A record of some 60 000 civilian casualties of the Second World War is provided without details of burial location.
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Explore a diverse selection of government records about Australians and New Zealanders in World War I and the Boer War. Enhance a profile dedicated to the wartime journey of someone who served. Uncover the personal stories of service men and women through original archival records.
A growing number of Australian profiles on Discovering Anzacs have a repatriation record attached which shows what happened to that person after the war.
National Archives of Australia website Mapping our Anzacs is a tool to browse 375,971 records of service in the Australian Army during World War I according to the person's place of birth or enlistment.
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From the Royal Australian Navy this database provides detailed histories of HMA ships. Entries for each ship include statistics, photographs, war service details and voyage dates.
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This website contains: South African Graves database which comprises the records of Australians in the Victims of Conflict database of the National Memorials Council (NMC) of South Africa; Australian Memorials database. Also provides brief biographies, photographs, information on memorials in Australia and South African maps for 1900 and 1905. There are also links to Boer War related websites.
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The NSW War Memorials Register is a database of war memorials in New South Wales. It currently holds more than 3000 war memorial records, and more than 200,000 veteran records. The Register enables communities to record accurate information about war memorials, provides best practice information about war memorial conservation, and connects memorials and veterans to sustain NSW military and commemorative history.
An educational website developed by the Office of the Board of Studies for the Commonwealth Department of Veterans' Affairs. This site charts the course of Australia’s wartime history.
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International in focus, this archive presents primary documents relating to World War I including images and personal reminiscences. It has been assembled by volunteers of the World War I Military History list (WWI-L).
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