State Library of NSW Photographs
Teacher and school children outside the school, Blacklead (?) 1871-1875
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- The Ivory Tower and Beyond: participant historians of the Pacific There is a tradition of participant history among historians of the Pacific Islands, unafraid to show their hands on issues of public importance and risking controversy to make their voices heard. This book explores the theme of the participant historiaCall Number: DU 28.12 M867 2009
- The fabrication of Aboriginal historyCall Number: DU 123.4 W55 2002 v.1, v.3
- How empire shaped usPublication Date: 2016
- Themes in Australian history : questions, issues, and interpretation in an evolving historiographyCall Number: DU 96 F37 1990
- Witnessing Australian stories : history, testimony, and memory in contemporary cultureCall Number: DU 108 B88 2013
- Clio in Oceania : toward a historical anthropologyCall Number: GN 662 C6415 1991
- Remembering : writing oral history - Subject term: Oral history--New Zealand. - Subject term: Oral tradition--New Zealand. - Geographic term: New Zealand--Social life and customs. - Geographic term: New Zealand--Historiography.Call Number: DU 418 R46 2004
- From the ruins of colonialism : history as social memoryCall Number: DU 108 H38 1997
- Texts and contexts : reflections in Pacific Islands historiographyCall Number: DU 28.11 T49 2006
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- Going to the sources: a guide to historical research and writingCall Number: D 16 B893 2013
