Links

The following links may be useful for those researching Australian history, culture, and associated fields.

Australian culture

Australian Folklore Unit, Warren Fahey
Australian Folk Songs
Blue Mountains Association of Cultural Heritage Organisations (NSW)
The Bush Music Club (NSW)
Bush Traditions
Folk Alliance Australia
The Folk Federation of Tasmania
Jam: Folk Federation of NSW
Monaro Folk Society (ACT)
Monument Australia
People, culture and lifestyle, Australian Government
Perry Middlemiss
Simply Australia
Top End Folk Club (NT)
Victorian Folk Music Club
Wongawilli Colonial Dance Club (NSW)

Australian people

Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian National University
Obituaries Australia, Australian National University

Births, deaths, and marriages

[* Searchable indexes]
New South Wales:
NSW Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages (New South Wales, government site)
* Family history research guide (New South Wales, government site)
South Australia:
Births, Deaths & Marriages (Consumer and Business Services, South Australia, government site)
Researching your family history (South Australia, government site)
Births, deaths and marriages: Introduction (State Library of South Australia)
* Genealogy SA
— Note: Online access to SA records is via a non-government organisation
Queensland:
Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Queensland, government site)
* Family history research service (Queensland, government site)
Tasmania:
Births, Deaths and Marriages (Tasmania, government site)
Researching family trees (Tasmania, government site)
* Births, Deaths and Marriages, Libraries Tasmania (Tasmania, government site)
Victoria:
The Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria (Victoria, government site)
* Search your family history (Victoria, government site)
Western Australia:
The Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Western Australia, government site)
* Searching family history (Western Australia, government site)
Australian Capital Territory:
Australian Capital Territory, National Library of Australia
— Note: No online access to records
Northern Territory:
Births, deaths and marriages (Northern Territory, government site)
Search births, deaths and marriages records (Northern Territory, government site)
— Note: No online access to records

Other genealogical resources:
Ancestry (pay to use)
Australia Genealogy, Family Search
— See: Northern Territory Births, Marriages, and Deaths (see the “Online Resources” list at the end of the page)
Australian birth, death and marriage records, National Library of Australia

Dictionaries, modern

Cambridge Dictionary
Collins Dictionary
Lexico (Oxford Dictionary)
Macquarie Dictionary (pay to use)
Merriam-Webster (dictionary and thesaurus)
Rhyme Zone (rhyming dictionary and thesaurus)
Wiktionary

Dictionaries, old

1720: Edward Phillips, The New World of Words: Or, Universal English Dictionary, London: Edward Phillips
1724: Edward Cocker; John Hawkins, Cocker’s English Dictionary (3rd edition), London: T. Norris
1736: N. Bailey, Dictionarium Britannicum: Or a More Compleat Universal Etymological English Dictionary than any Extant (2nd edition), London: T. Cox
1838: [John Henry Brady], The Writer’s and Student’s Assistant: Or, a Compendious Dictionary Rendering the More Common Words and Phrases in the English Language, into the More Elegant or Scholastic (4th edition), Bombay: John De Nazareth
1839: Samuel Johnson, Henry John Todd, and John Walker, Johnson’s Dictionary, Improved by Todd, Abridged for the Use of Schools, with the Addition of Walker’s Pronunciation, Boston: Jenks and Palmer
1871: Alexander Reid, A Dictionary of the English Language: Containing the Pronunciation, Etymology, and Explanation of all Words Authorized by Eminent Writers, Toronto: Adam, Stevenson & Co.
1874: James Henry Murray (editor), Johnson’s Dictionary, with Numerous Additions from the Most Eminent Authorities, London: George Routledge and Sons
1895: Webster’s Academic Dictionary: A Dictionary of the English Language, New York: American Book Company, c1895
1897: Cole’s Pearl English Dictionary: Comprising Besides the Ordinary and Newest Words in the Language, Short Explanations of a Large Number of Scientific, Philosophical, Literary and Technical Terms (also known as Cole’s Penny English Dictionary), Melbourne: E. W. Cole, [ca. 1897]

Dictionaries, specialist

1889: Albert Barrère and Charles G. Leland (editors), A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo-Indian Slang, Pidgin English, Tinker’s Jargon and Other Irregular Phraseology, vol. I: A-K, [London]: The Ballantyne Press
1890: Albert Barrère and Charles G. Leland (editors), A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo-Indian Slang, Pidgin English, Tinker’s Jargon and Other Irregular Phraseology, vol. II: L-Z, [London]: The Ballantyne Press
1891: Francis Henry Stratmann; Henry Bradley, A Middle-English Dictionary: Containing Words Used by English Writers from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century (revised edition), Oxford: Clarendon Press
1898-1905: Joseph Wright (editor), The English Dialect Dictionary: Being the Complete Vocabulary of All Dialect Words Still in Use, or Known to Have Been in Use During the Last Two Hundred Years, London: Henry Frowde [editions were published in other years, e.g. 1903]
vol. I., A-C (1898)
vol. II. D-G (1900)
vol. III. H-L (1905)
vol. IV. M-Q (1905)
vol. V. R-S (1905)
vol. VI. T-Z (1905)
1909: J. Redding Ware, Passing English of the Victorian Era: A Dictionary of Heterodox English, Slang, and Phrase, London: Routledge, [1909]

See also:
1909: W. F. Webster and Alice Woodworth Cooley, The New Webster-Cooley Course in English, second book, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, c1909

Booksellers

AbeBooks.com
AntiqBook
Biblio.com
BibliOz
Books and Collectibles
ViaLibri

See also:
Amazon
Ebay (marketplace)
eBbid (marketplace)
Gumtree (marketplace)
Invaluable (auctions)
Worthpoint (lists prices of auction sales)

Updated 29 May 2022

Comments

warren fahey says

31 May 2013 at 10:26

G’day. just a quick note to say thank you for all those TROVE corrections you have painfully transcribed. I am on the home stretch of a very large e-book on Australian mining songs and your contribution in that area definitely made my job easier. I have found so much terrific material – including the original of a Frank Gardiner ballad. Great site you have going here… eclectic when it goes from old bush songs to J O’K.

- IAC says
  
  31 May 2013 at 14:09
  
  No worries. Glad the Trove work has been of help.
  Sounds like we have a shared interest in old Australian songs.
  Hoping to get a lot of Australian poems and songs transcribed and on to the site here; such a lot of work to to, but it will be worth it in the end.
  Good luck with the e-book of mining songs; hope it goes well. Looking forward to seeing it!
  
AC says

5 September 2014 at 09:59

I was born in Australia and I am working on a project about cultures in Australia and stumbled across this great site. Good work thank you, despite me not being much of a reader of anything.
Was wondering which other websites I could go to learn more info on more modern Australians and its culture of the 20th century.
I will eventually contact libraries etc for information, so if you know of any librarians or historians that love sharing their Australian knowledge, please let me know.