General History Resources

• Australian Explorers page. A chronology of Australian exploration with links to relevant eBooks, together with an extensive list of Australian explorers and their biographies. Also see the Australian Explorers Journals page, a virtual library of writing by the explorers themselves.
• Australian Discovery page. Details of early maritime contact with Australia.
• The First Fleet page. Details of the First Fleet which arrived in Australia in 1788.
• A Short History of Australia by Ernest Scott.
• A chronology of Australian history.This timeline appeared in A Short History of Australia by Ernest Scott.
• A chronology of Western Australian history. See Western Australia: a History from its Discovery to the Inauguration of the Commonwealth by J S Battye.
• A list of Governors and Ministries of the Commonwealth and the states. See A Short History of Australia by Ernest Scott.
• A List of Convicts sent to New South Wales on the First Fleet, in 1787. From The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay.
• Dictionary of Australian Biography. Biographies of about 1000 people prominent in the development of Australia--explorers, artists, politicians, scientists, etc. All died before 1950.
• Western Australia: a History from its Discovery to the Inauguration of the Commonwealth by J S Battye.
• The History of Tasmania, Vol 2 by John West.
• A Source Book of Australian History by Gwendolen H Swinburne. Contains extracts from documents relating to Discovery and Exploration and to General Australian History.
• The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea by George Collingridge.
• The History of Australia and New Zealand from 1606 to 1890 by Alexander and George Sutherland.
• The First Discovery of Australia with an account of the Voyage of the Duyfken and the Career of Captain Willem Jansz. by T D Mutch.

Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land