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These datasets contain information about current and former government schools in NSW since 1848. Data notes: Schools that operated as various types of schools have multiple...

Annual report and financial statements

The passage of the Returned Soldiers Settlement Act 1916, (Act No 21 1916) allowed the settlement of returned soldiers on Crown and Closer Settlement lands. When applying for...

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CoS collection of archives, photographs, historical records

Approximately 11,000 volumes of letters and diaries of WW1 Australian soldiers have been collected by the Library. For the WWI Centenary Commemoration we have committed to...

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Name search for railway employees who died in the First World War. This index contains 1214 entries and was compiled from one volume by the State Records NSW Volunteer program....

Machine readable feed of albums recently added to SLNSW's Manuscripts, Oral History and Pictures catalogue.

Between 1788 and 1842 about 80,000 convicts were transported to New South Wales. Of these, about 85% were men and 15% were women. Almost two thirds of convicts were English...