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Arts Victoria coordinates this collection of sources from selested cultural organisations. Themes include: A Diverse State, Indigenous Culture, Immigrants & Emigrants, Land & Ecology, Built Environment, Sporting Life Creative Life

National Library of Australia presents a portal to collections from around the nation. Find and get over 241,958,863 Australian and online resources: books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives and more.

Presented by the Museum of Australian Democracy. "Getting it Together: From Colonies to Federation is a resource for teachers in the middle years classroom (years 5 to 8). A series of 7 packages, Getting it Together explores each state's unique journey to

Museum of Australian Democracy. This is a source for some fairly heavy weigh parliamentary documents including "Governor La Trobe's Instructions, 11 September 1839" and "Chinese Immigration Act 1855 (Vic)"

These lessons from the UK National Archives provide student questions focussing on some fantastic primary sources. Check out Empire and Industry 1750 - 1850 and Victorians 1850 - 1901 for issues relating to Making a Better World. Make sure you hit the Sho

a great resource for using primary source documents to examine historical questions about work and politics surrounding the factories of Industrial England - sources and lesson ideas included

Collection of photos showing panoramic view of Ballarat in 1872, showing the growth in only 20 years since the discovery of Gold. Only made possible by the Industrial Revolution.

This is the PowerPoint that Marion Littlejohn used in a presentation at the HTAV in 2012. It is about the Industrial Revolution and contains some excellent images teachers may be able to use. The site also contains links to other useful presentations. As many do not contain notes, I wonder whether teachers might ask students to analyse and hypothesise what each presentation is saying.

This is a huge site with practical classroom activities, links to good websites, interactives and lessons specific to the UK History curriculum. Some of the offerings are perfect for the Australian curriculum. Well catagorised and easily searched.

In this BBC production Professor Jane Humphries uses testimonies of children to explore the abuses and mistreatment. Covers orphans, human scarecrows, chimney sweeps and more

A collection of first person accounts of historical events from the ancient world

A wealth of background material for teachers and on-line activities for students, this site covers Egypt, Rome, Greece and other ancient civilizations. 

An extensive archive of documents and materials on Sumer, Egypt, Greece and Rome. Presented by Fordham University in New York