Debates and Proceedings of the Australasian Federation Conference, Melbourne, 6-14 February, 1890; Debates of the National Australasian Convention, Sydney, 2 March–9 April 1891; Debates of the Australasian Federal Convention of 1897/8 in three sessions.
Full text journals, books, images, and primary sources from the humanities, social sciences and life sciences.
JSTOR is a fully-searchable database containing ebooks, and current and back issues of scholarly journals in a wide variety of subject areas, concentrated in the arts, social sciences and humanities. JSTOR offers access to various discrete subject-based collections.
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Originally derived from two essential reference collections for historical legal studies, the Nineteenth Century and Twentieth Century Legal Treatises microfilm collections. Provides digital images on every page of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926.
Full-text searching on more than 10 million pages provides researchers access to critical legal history, including casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and more.
This presentation gives an overview of the Australian Newspapers service. It contains over 20 million digitised historic newspapers. The service is now being integrated with Trove. Librarians on the panel describe how they have used the information to solve legal cases. Most of these involve family names and history including ownership of property.
Holley, Rose Legal research using digitised historic newspapers., 2010 . In Australian Law Librarians Association Event, National Library of Australia, Canberra (Australia), 28 July 2010. [Presentation]
This project will produce a rich understanding of how crime has been prosecuted in Australia. It will also tell us much about Australian history – how people lived, how they behaved, how they dealt with conflict and tragedy, how legal and political institutions responded to crime and its consequences. This project is supported by the Australian Research Council (ARC Laureate Fellowship, 2013-18) and Griffith University.
Original texts, transcripts and information relating to various constitutional and other legislative documents of the 19th and 20th century (Documenting a Democracy).
A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.