Collection: Local History Reference

Melbourne's streets have always been marvellous--but the proud facades of the nineteenth-century boom aren't the half of it. What about the stories behind them? The great corset scandal of Melbourne's belle epoque; The heritage-listed toilets out the back of the Rialto; The exploits of the women ...

Advantage Melbourne is the definitive guide to investment location factors in the Asia Pacific region. With rigorously researched data, support text and third party company endorsements, advantage Melbourne is a valuable tool for any organisation planning its investment strategy. -- introduction.

For the past 20 years, Lisa Radford has written alongside (and sometimes about) contemporary art and artists in Melbourne. This anthology was published to coincide with Radford's solo exhibition 'Dear Masato, all at once' at West Space in 2016, as part of the organisation's annual commission seri...

"City of Melbourne is committed to being a city for people. We are inclusive, we care our most vulnerable and we know that the availability of safe, affordable, quality homes with secure tenure supports the health and well being of our community"--page 5.

The death of Rev J. H. Davies in April 1890 could have meant the end of the endeavor of the Young Men’s Fellowship of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria to establish a Victorian Presbyterian Church mission in Korea. But far from dampening the growing missionary spirit in the colonial Victorian C...

"This CD contains indexes to 3.9 million records drawn from the collections of 39 family history societies and institutions throughout Australia and New Zealand and is available to researchers in this fully searchable format for the first time. 19th & 20th century data drawn from cemetery records...

"The built & unbuilt aircraft projects, proposals & aviation related programs (1936-2000) of the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation and its subsequent owners- A company history- Scale drawings, photographs, index & bibliographies" -- back of title page.

In this first full biography of Alan Villiers, based on extensive research in both Australia and England, Kate Lance has produced a fascinating portrait of Villiers and the world he inhabited. Alan Villiers was born in Melbourne in 1903 and, from boyhood, had a passion for the sea and sailing.

Alan Walsh was the originator and developer of the atomic absorption method of chemical analysis, which revolutionized quantitative analysis in the 1950s and 1960s.