Canberra History Resources

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The hardest thing about writing these books was having to leave a whole bunch of fascinating things out of them. I kept discovering more stories and cool things about the history of Canberra, so I've made this web page to share some of what I found.

The Puzzle Maker's Notes for each book (Canberra and Junior Canberra) give you extra information on some of the puzzles, to help you solve them, or find out more about the topics.

Web Links

Canberra's History and Government

• ACT Heritage Library
• The National Capital Authority
• Understanding the Capital (National Capital Authority)
• Welcome to Australia's National Capital
• National Trust of Australia (ACT)
• Canberra District Historical Society
• ACT Heritage (Environment ACT)
• ACTPLA Street Name Search Canberra's Suburb and Street Names
• Virtual Canberra: Australia's National Capital
• ACT Legislative Assembly - Education
• Canberra Nara Sister City
• ACT Chief Minister's Department - Flags and Emblems
• Commonwealth Heritage Listings
• The Story of our Nation's Capital (Primary Schools) National Capital Authority
• Reflections of a Nation (Secondary Schools) National Capital Authority

  Online Exhibitions, Architecture and Modern History

• Women in the making of Canberra
• Poles-A-Part Exhibition
• The Giant's Eye - The Optical Munitions Exhibition
• Ideal City - The 1912 Competition to Design Canberra (National Archives)
• A Short History of Railways in Canberra
• A Vision Splendid - How the Griffins imagined Australia's capital (National Archives)
• The Griffin Legacy
• Home Sweet Home? Living in Canberra in the 1920s and 1930s (National Archives)
• The Story of Canberra
• Canberra's Top Secret Tour
• canberrahouse
• Government House

  Biographies

• Australia's Prime Ministers (National Archives)
• The Murrays of Yarralumla and Winderradeen
• Rosemary Follett
• Stasia Dabrowski
• Sylvia Curley
• Rosalie Gascoigne
• Garth Nix
• Calthorpe's House - Life during WWII (Dawn Waterhouse)
• Growing Up in Canberra (Dawn Waterhouse again)

  Places to Visit

• Australian Academy of Science
• Australian American Memorial
• Australian Railway Historical Society (ACT Division)
• Australian War Memorial
• Blundell's Cottage (National Capital Exhibition)
• Blundell's Cottage (National Trust)
• Calthorpes' House
• Duntroon
• Duntroon Dairy (Environment ACT)
• Gorman House (National Trust)
• High Court of Australia
• Hotel Kurrajong
• Hotel Kurrajong (National Trust)
• Jervis Bay
• Lanyon
• Mugga-Mugga
• National Carillon
• National Gallery of Australia
• National Library of Australia
• Old Parliament House
• Old Parliament House (National Trust)
• Parliament House
• St John's Schoolhouse Museum
• Tuggeranong Homestead

Books & CDs

A Colonial Woman - The Life and Times of Mary Braidwood Mowle
Patricia Clarke
Allen & Unwin, 1986

Australian States : Australian Capital Territory
Robert Gott
Heinemann Library, 1997

Canberra 1820-1913
Lyall Gillespie
Australian Government Publishing Service, 1991

Canberra - A History of Australia's Capital
E. davies, J. Hoffman and B. Price
ACT Ministry for Health, Education and the Arts, 1990

Canberra's Secrets
Magaret Wade, 2003
Pub, Date

Images of Early Canberra - The Mildenhall Collection
William James Mildenhall
Australian Government Publishing Service, 1993

My First Home in Canberra
collected and edited by the Canberra Stories Group, 1995

Murray of Yarralumla
Gwendoline Wilson
Tabletop Press, 2001

Not Without My Corsets!
collected and compiled by Fion and Marion Douglas, 1996

Over my Shoulder - Growing up with Canberra from the 1930s
Meryl Hunter
Canberra Stories Group, 1995

Pictorial History : Canberra
Mary Machen
Kingsclear Books, 2000

Reflections of Canberra Images from acrhives of the ACT Heritage Library (CD)
Created by Sutherland Studios
Urban Services, ACT Government 1998

Settlers' Stories (1913-1975)
collected and edited by the Canberra Stories Group, 2000

Voices of Old Ainslie
collected and edited by the Canberra Stories Group, 1994