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The Library specialises in NSW local history and contains an extensive collection of both written and pictorial resources on all aspects of Australian history. Included in the collection are printed books, pamphlets, newspaper cuttings, manuscripts, ephemera, journals, maps, microfilm, microfiche, photographs and glass slides. It also holds the only comprehensive computerised index to the Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, which has been publishing scholarly articles on Australian history since 1906. Computer databases also list over 12,000 items held in the library, including an extensive press clippings and photographic holdings. Computers are available for accessing the library catalogue, specialist indexes of the society's collection such as the picture collections and the local history bibliography. The computer can also be used for internet access to other collections. Location: First Floor, History House, 133 Macquarie Street, Sydney NSW 2000. Opening hours: 10 am to 4 pm, Monday to Friday (except Public Holidays and between Christmas and New Year). Cost: free to members and to members of Affiliated Societies undertaking society research. $5.50 per day (including GST) for non-members and Affiliated Society members undertaking private research. Researchers requiring access to special collections such as the photographic collections are advised to phone for an appointment with the librarian, Donna Newton tel: 9247 8001 or email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . For permission to reproduce photographs and other material from the collection, please download pdf form Currently all our databases are unavailable. We are working to rectify the situation and apologize for any inconvenience. Further information about our Library - The Royal Australian Historical Library became officially known as the C.H. Bertie and Hugh Wright Memorial Library in 1952. This was in appreciation and recognition of the longstanding honorary services of these two retired Chief Librarians, both longstanding members and Fellows of the RAHS. These gentlemen worked together 2 afternoons week for 10 years binding books, pamphlets; maps; other historical material; card cataloguing; dealing with hundreds small manuscripts; many odds and ends saving and listing so as readily found when required. Along with many other volunteers along the way, they put the society’s collection in order for the first time: organizing, examining and classifying all the materials accumulated during the Society’s first 40 years. The earliest known custodian of the collection was Frank Walker. The library’s collection today has grown and evolved from the donation and purchase of all this material gathered over nearly one hundred and ten years. It specialises in NSW local history and contains an extensive collection of both written and pictorial resources on all aspects of Australian history. Our catalogued databases include:
These databases may be accessed from the computers in the Library and many are currently available for access from our website. Amongst our collection we also have the following:
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