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Historical resources for Western Australian History
Pamela Statham Drew has compiled the following list of Books and Articles relating to the History of Western Australia.
If you know of any books or articles that could be added to the list please contact Pamela at nickdrew@bigpond.com
Early Years
Author | Book Title | Published by |
|---|---|---|
Appleyard, R.T. & Manford, T. | The Beginning | UWA Press 1979 |
Battye, J.S. | Western Australia: A History from its Discovery to the Inauguration of the Commonwealth | Oxford1924 |
Berryman, Ian | Swan River Letters | Perth 2002 |
Blackburn, Geoff | The Children’s Friend Society | Perth 1993 |
Blackburn, Geoff | Conquest and Settlement - 21st Reg. Royal N. British Fusiliers in WA | Hesperian 1999 |
Bolton, Geoffrey | Land of Vision and Mirage | UWAP 2008 |
Bourke, Michael | On the Swan: A History of the Swan District | UWAP 1987 |
Cameron, J. | The Millendon Memoirs GF Moore’s Letters & Diary 1830-1841 | Hesperian Press 2007 |
Cameron, J. | Ambitions Fire | UWAP 1981 |
Cameron, J.M.R. | Coming to terms: The Development of Agriculture in Pre-convict WA | Geowest UWA 1977 |
Chessell, Gwen | Alexander Collie - Colonial Surgeon Naturalist & Explorer | UWAP 2008 |
Chessell, Gwen | Sir Richard Spencer Napoleonic War hero& Australian Pioneer | UWAP 2005 |
Clarkson, Gresley | The Tranby Clarksons 1829-1929 | Perth 1995 |
Cowan, Peter (Ed) | A Faithful Picture – the letters of Eliza & Thos. Brown at York in the Swan River 1841-1852 | Fremantle Arts Centre 1977 |
Crowley, F. | Master & Servant in WA | RWAHSJ Vol. 4 Part 5 1953 |
Ericksen, Rica | Old Toodyay and Newcastle | UWA Press 1974 |
Erickson, Rica | The Drummonds of Hawthornden | Lamb Patterson WA 1969 |
Fyfe, C. | The Bale Fillers: Western Australian Wool 1826-1916 | UWAP 1983 |
Hasluck, A. | Portrait with Background | OUP Melbourne 1955 |
Johnston, Ruth | The Tranby Hardy’s | Perth 1988 |
Love, M. | Georgiana Leake’s Wildflower Album: WA’s First Botanical Artist | RWAHS 2010 |
Love, M. | The Sherwood Papers: A Swan River Story | Dalkeith 1996 |
Markey, D.S. | More a Symbol than a Success | Bayswater 1977 |
Moore, G.F. | A Diary of Ten Years of an Early Settler in WA | 1884 reprinted UWAP 1978 |
Ogle, Nathanial | The Colony of Western Australia | 1839 Facsimile NSW 1977 |
O’Brien, J. & Statham Drew, P. | On We Go The Wittenoom Way | Perth 2009 |
Pashley, A.R. | A Colonial Pioneer The Life and Times of J.N.Drummond | |
Reynolds, P. | Edmund Stirling: Swan River Pioneer | Perth 2010 |
Shann, E.O.G. | Cattle Chosen | OUP 1926 reprinted UWAP 1978 |
Statham Drew, Pamela | James Stirling; Admiral and Founding Governor | UWAP 2003 |
Statham Drew, Pamela | James Stirling and the Birth of Swan River Colony | Perth 2004 |
Statham, Pamela | Swan River 1829-1850. Chapter 5 in Stannage, C.T. (ed) A New History of Western Australia | UWAP 1981 |
Statham, Pamela | The Tanner Letters: Pioneer Saga of Tasmania & Swan River 1831-1845 | UWAP 1981 |
Statham, Pamela | The Role of the Commissariat in W.A.'s Early Economic Development | Australian Economic History Review. Vol.24. March 1984 |
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