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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

Ergo is the State Library of Victoria's web site for secondary students. It focusses on research and study skills. Explore History provides information, primary sources and links for the following themes: Rebels & outlaws,Fight for rights, Land & explorat

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

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.

Fantastic site for introducing Medieval topics to students. Have used this with Year 8 students and they loved it.

Imperial Federation map 1886 from the Boston Public Library. A wonderful source to analyse British Imperialism and what raw material the colonies supplied to fuel the Industrial Revolution. Great comparison insert from 1786