People
Databases
- Register of the National Estate - list of natural and cultural heritage places, maintained by the Australian Heritage Council. The Register includes historic places, natural areas and places of importance to indigenous people
- Australian Memory of the World Register - a selective list of Australia's significant documentary heritage
- Picture Australia - pictures of people, places and events in the collections of cultural agencies, in Australia and overseas
- Australian National Shipwreck Database
- Australian Heritage Council
- The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913
A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.
- Convict Transportation Registers Database
This database has been compiled from British Home Office records, and contains details of over 123,000 convicts sent to New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land, Moreton Bay, Western Australia and Norfolk Island. The records cover the period 1787 to 1867.
- Irish History Online - an authoritative guide (in progress) to what has been written about Irish history from earliest times to the present
- Australian Bureau of Statistics Time Series most ABS statistics can be downloaded as a time series
- How much is that? - discusses how to calculate prices into modern equivalence
Measuring worthThis site has calculators which convert money by several different measures
- This Day - BBC News search by date Perpetual Calendar - a calculator which enables you to find appropriate years when you know only the day of the week, the date, and the month
- Place names search - locate even tiny and obscure places
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Guides to unpublished sources
Digitised historical documents
- General
- Topic specific
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