\[ **up: [[Geography]] | [[Countries of the world]]** ] --- # Australia - *See also:* - [[Australian English]] - [[Asians--Australia]] --- ## History ### Pre-1788 - [[First Nations--Australia]] --- ### 1788–1900 #### Family [[“Fractured families have been common to Australian life since white settlement in 1788.”]][^1] [[“... there were as many lone-parent families in the nineteenth century as there are today and serial relationships, step-parenthood and boys without resident male role models have long been commonplace.”]][^2] #### External resources - [Vagrants and Murderesses: Melbourne’s Criminal Women](https://vagrantsandmurderesses.com/) --- ### 1901–1914 --- ### World War I (1914–1918) [[2024-0722. Once Britain declared war against Germany in August 1914, Australia was automatically also at war.|Once Britain declared war against Germany in August 1914, Australia was automatically also at war.]][^3] #### External resources - [1914–1918-Online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War](https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/) - [Common British Army acronyms and abbreviations of the First World War](https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/soldiers/a-soldiers-life-1914-1918/common-british-army-acronyms-and-abbreviations-of-the-first-world-war/) - [Digitised First World War records](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/first-world-war/centenary-digitised-records/) - [IMW Collections](https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections) - [Lives of the First World War](https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/) - [Operation War Diary](https://www.operationwardiary.org) - [The Guards Museum](https://theguardsmuseum.com/resources/archives-and-research/) - [The National Archives: British Army officers of the First World War](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/british-army-officers-after-1913/) + [Opposing War: Women’s Protest in World War I](https://labourhistorymelbourne.org/2016/12/06/opposing-war-womens-protest-in-world-war-i/) --- ### Inter-war years (1919– #### 1920s #### 1930s: Great Depression ### World War II (1939–1945) ### Post-war and modern Australia --- ### General external resources - [National Library of Australia](https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/) - [Macquarie Dictionary](https://eds-p-ebscohost-com.rp.nla.gov.au/eds/detail/detail?vid=2&sid=f4e79102-1698-4508-b62e-215c0b2a6fee%40redis&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmU%3d#AN=nla.ebs1972774e&db=cat07626a) - [National Archives of Australia](https://www.naa.gov.au/) - [NameSearch](https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/SearchScreens/NameSearch.aspx) + [The Australian National Dictionary](https://australianwords.au/) — searches and shows results from various **historical** Australian dictionaries. Free to use. --- [^1]: Tanya Evans, ‘[[Evans. ‘The Meanings and Experiences of Single Mothers in Nineteenth-Century Sydney, Australia’, 2014.|The Meanings and Experiences of Single Mothers in Nineteenth-Century Sydney, Australia]],’ *Annales de démographie historique*, no. 1 (127) (2014), p. 73. [^2]: Tanya Evans, ‘[[Evans. ‘The Meanings and Experiences of Single Mothers in Nineteenth-Century Sydney, Australia’, 2014.|The Meanings and Experiences of Single Mothers in Nineteenth-Century Sydney, Australia]],’ *Annales de démographie historique* 127, no. 1 (2014), p. 73. [^3]: ‘First World War 1914–18’, *Australian War Memorial*, 2 June 2021, https://www.awm.gov.au/articles/atwar/first-world-war.