Australasia

A 19th century lithograph showing the town of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. (Florilegius/SSPL/Getty Images)

Ye Olde Travel Guide: Sydney 1848

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Australians: Eureka to the Diggers

Hard labour: a woman tarring and flinting in Oxford Street, central London, 1919. (Getty Images)

First World War

The Library “Our Excess Girls": women after the First World War

Gold Mining At Mount Alexander

General History

Convicts and colonisers: the early history of Australia

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First World War

Was there a guerrilla campaign waged by pro-German elements in what was then German New Guinea during WWI?

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Recreating a Victorian farm and the life of Captain Cook

An illustration depicting inhabitants of Hawaii making an offering to Captain Cook

The Library The mystery of Cook’s lost journal