What's New -
(1/10/06)
J.S. Battye's book, Western
Australia: a history from its discovery to the inauguration of the
Commonwealth, written in 1924 is now available as a free e-book
through Project Gutenberg.
http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty.html#letterB
Katijin,
a guide to indigenous records in the Battye Library is now available.
The next issue of Studies
in Western Australian History, from the UWA Press is A Convict
Legacy, no. 24, edited by Anne Brake and Jacqui Sheriff. This
volume is based on a collection of seminar papers.
http://www.uwapress.uwa.edu.au
About the Local
History Collection
The Local History Collection provides information about Fremantle and
neighbouring suburbs in Fremantle and East Fremantle local government
area.
Books, pamphlets,
brochures, local newspapers, reports, photos, maps and oral histories
are all available. Access is available to published and unpublished
documents and other original material, including biographical and
building history files. They are not for loan but can all be used in the
library.
Click here
to view Fremantle's
Time Line.
Click here for help in researching Fremantle
History.
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Local History Photographic Collection
Hours: Monday to Friday 9.30am -
5pm
Telephone:
9432 9739
Email:
lhc@fremantle.wa.gov.au
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