Conceived in the late 1970s as a contribution by the Australian historical profession to the Bicentenary of European colonisation, Australians: a historical library, in ten volumes, is to be found on the reference shelves of most larger libraries, and is now available in a digitised version on the Academy’s website. The core text can be searched by keyword, and PDFs of each chapter can be readily downloaded. Illustrations were central to the project, not least the maps in the Historical Atlas. Over four hundred writers contributed to the project, including geographers, demographers, economists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and political scientists, as well as historians.
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