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

Chris Patten, the last governor of colonial Hong Kong, is pictured here receiving the Union Jack flag shortly before Hong Kong was returned to China, ending over a century of British rule. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images)

The British empire: 10 big questions

Gold Mining At Mount Alexander

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