Module

This resource is aligned to the Australian Curriculum: HASS for Year 5 students. It adopts an inquiry learning approach that develops students’ skills as historians.

The resources available for each house may be different, due to the fact the availability, organisation, and location of records vary from state to state.

Learn some useful tips and suggestions to get you started researching your town or local area with the National Library's collection.

Learn some useful tips and suggestions on how to use newspapers for family history research.

Start exploring the Library's diverse collections to search through time and place to build family stories and local narratives.

Discover early family histories of the Canberra region while learning about how you too can explore your town and put your family history puzzle back together.

Find family photos and piece together dates and places from the many clues they contain. 

40 recordings of folk music, folklore and reminiscences from people in rural New South Wales recorded 1983-1988.

Learn how to uncover facts and colour from historical documents, manuscripts, newspapers and more.

Recordings of folk songs and dance music from Queensland and also stories, legends and recollections of customs and immigrant settlement, particularly German and Scandinavian in rural Queensland.

Recordings of folk music, dance music, folklore and oral history from New South Wales and Queensland recorded during the period 1955-1990.

421 photographs taken in the period 1858–1910 in Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and South Australia, mostly of public buildings, street scenes, rural scenes and events.