Primary Sources: World History

Search or browse more than 60 newspaper titles. Date coverage varies by title, but inclusive dates are 1803-1954

Website tells the story of Australia through the documents which gave the national, state and territory governments the right to govern.

Photographs taken by anthropologists Edwin Cook and Susan Pflanz during fieldwork in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea, with the Narak-speaking people of Western Highlands Province. 1961-1972

Photographs taken by anthropologist Harold Scheffler during field research with peoples of Choiseul, Rendova, Simbo and other islands of the Solomon Islands. The images date from 1958-1961 and 1967-1968.

Chronological list and some fulltext links to archival materials relevant to Papua (former Irian Jaya) held in the National Archive of Australia, Canberra.

Sixteen films documenting the cultural life in Fiji and Tonga by geologist J.E. Hoffmeister. 1920-1939

Presents information on the history of Muslim immigration to Australia from earliest times to the 20th century, via photographs and government documents. From the National Archives of Australia.

Photographs, films and dissertations, documenting aspects of the cultures and peoples of the Pacific Islands, with a strong emphasis on Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. (1919-1989)

Dissertations and theses, written between 1946 and 2001, documenting social life, customs, history and other topics pertaining to the Highlands Region of Papua New Guinea.

Photographs taken by anthropologist Roger M. Keesing during field research with the Kwaio people of Malaita, Solomon Islands. The images document aspects of Kwaio culture. (1963-1989)

Photographs taken by anthropologist Roy A. Rappaport during fieldwork with the Tsembaga Maring people of Madang Province in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. The images document aspects of Maring culture. (1960-1963)

Photographs of Pacific Islanders taken by American physician Sylvester Maxwell Lambert. Many images taken in Papua New Guinea, Solomn Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, Kiribati and Tuvalu. 1919-1939

Images and dissertations documenting anthropological and other research in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and other southwest Pacific Islands.

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