Australian

HOLLIS Subject Terms  –  Background and Context  –  Secondary Sources  –  Bibliographies  –  Biography  –  Archives  –  Document Collections  –  Government Documents  –  News  –  Personal Accounts  –  Visual

HOLLIS Subject Terms

  • Aboriginal Australians in art
  • Aboriginal Australians in literature
  • Aboriginal Australians in mass media
  • Aboriginal Australians in motion pictures
  • Aboriginal Tasmanians
  • Art, Aboriginal Australian
  • Australian languages
  • Frontier and pioneer life Australia
  • Native title (Australia)
  • Rock paintings
  • Torres Strait Islanders
  • Women, Aboriginal Australian

Background and Context

Cambridge History of Australia Vol. 1 (CHA1), ed. by Alison Bashford and Stuart Macintyre, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2013.
Online Version

The Oxford companion to Australian history, ed. by Graeme Davison et al. Rev. ed. South Melbourne ; NY: Oxford University Press, 2001, 722 p.
Lamont | DU110 .O93 2001
Widener | RR 3961.33
Online Version

Encyclopedia of Women & Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia

The Oxford companion to Aboriginal art and culture, ed. by Sylvia Kleinert and Margo Neale et al. Melbourne; NY: Oxford University Press, 2000, 758 p.
Tozzer | REF | N7401 .O94 2000
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The Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia : Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, society and culture, ed. by David Horton. Canberra, ACT : Published by Aboriginal Studies Press for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 1994. 2 v.
Tozzer | REF | DU125 .E5 1994
Widener | WID-LC | DU120 .E53 1994x
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Secondary Sources

Royal Historical Society Bibliography is a comprehensive bibliography of secondary sources dealing with the British Isles, British Empire and Commonwealth from 55 BC to the present.

Bibliographies

Oxford Bibliographies Online offer annotated bibliographies of secondary sources:

Aboriginal studies resource list, by Alex Barlow. 2nd ed. Canberra, A.C.T. : Aboriginal Studies Press for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1989. 115 p.
Tozzer | Harvard Depository TOZ-LC | DU125.Z99 B3 1989 FOLIO
HOLLIS Record http://hollis.harvard.edu/?itemid=|library/m/aleph|003033389

‘A Select Bibliography of Aboriginal History and Social Change’, by Diane Barwick, et al.  Aboriginal History, vol. 1, pt 2, 1977, pp. 11-69.
Aboriginal history inTozzer | Harvard Depository | L.SOC.10.5.1.22
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The Aboriginal people of Victoria. Melbourne : State Library of Victoria, 1993- 2 v.
Widener | Harvard Depository | GN667.V6
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--v. 1. Select bibliography of pre-1960 printed sources in the collections of the State Library of Victoria
--v. 2. Select bibliography of post-1959 printed sources in the collections

Black Australia 2 : an annotated bibliography and teacher's guide to resources on Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders, 1977-82 / Marji Hill and Alex Barlow. Canberra, ACT : Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1985, 96 p.
Widener | Harvard Depository | GN665.Z99 H542 x, 1985
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Biography

History in portraits : biographies of nineteenth century South Australian Aboriginal people, ed. by Jane Simpson and Luise Hercus. Canberra : Aboriginal History Inc., 1998, 257 p.
Widener | Harvard Depository
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 Australian dictionary of biography. [Melbourne] Melbourne University Press; London, New York, Cambridge University Press, 1966-2007.
Andover-Harv. Theol | Ref. | DU82 .A9 Library's v. 15 has "Corrigenda" attached
Widener | WID-LC | DU82 .A9 "Corrigenda", inserted in v. 11-17
Online
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Archives

Many of the records held by the National Archives of Australia are digitised.

For a guide to these records, see
Australian Archives. ACT Regional Office. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in commonwealth records: a guide to records in the Australian Archives, ACT Regional Office, by Ros Fraser. Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service, 1993, 478 p.
Tozzer | REF | DU125 .A5 1993 Errata slip inserted.
Widener | Harvard Depository | GN666 .F74 1993
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Document Collections

Australian Literary and Historical Texts

Text Queensland is a collection of full text books, journals, theses, newspapers, and government documents relating to the history of Queensland.  

The Wellington Valley Project: Papers Relating to the Church Missionary Socity Mission to Wellington Valley, New South Wales 1830-1842

A History of Aboriginal Sydney

Awaba: History, culture and language of the Indigenous peoples of the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie region of NSW.  

Virtual Sourcebook for Aboriginal Studies in the Hunter Region

Original documents on Aborigines and law, 1797-1840

The struggle for aboriginal rights: a documentary history, by Bain Attwood and Andrew Markus. [St. Leonards], NSW, Australia : Allen & Unwin, 1999, 375 p.
Lamont | GN666 .S85 1999
Law School | Harvard Depository | GN666 .S77x 1999
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Aborigines and settlers: the Australian experience, 1788-1939, ed. by Henry Reynolds. Stanmore, N.S.W. : Cassell Australia, 1979. 1 vol.
Widener | Harvard Depository
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Dispossession : Black Australians and white invaders, by Henry Reynolds. Sydney ; Boston : Allen & Unwin, 1989, 226 p.
Widener | Harvard Depository | DU120 .D57x 1989
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Government Documents

Parliamentary papers and reports regarding Aborigines for the colony and state of Victoria (Scroll down to Aborigines)

To Remove and Protect: Laws that Changed Aboriginal Lives 

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers

News

Trove Digitised Newspapers, 1803-1954 includes 26 digitized Australian and Tasmanian newspapers. Each paper is currently available for an often short segment of the 1803-1954 span.

Personal Accounts

Find travel accounts in HOLLIS by searching the standard subject term: Australia “Description and Travel”.

Frontiers: experience on the Australian frontiers 1788-1950. Potts Point, N.S.W. : Hordern House, 1991, 176 p.
Widener | WID-LC | DU99.Z99 H67 1991x
--Lists descriptions of frontier life.

Analytical checklist of first-hand accounts in French of colonial Australia : with details of published English translation, by C.B. Thornton-Smith. 2nd ed.. Clayton, Vic. : English Dept., Monash University, 1986. 44 p.
Widener | Harvard Depository

Visual

Pictures: National Library of Australia

Australian Screen