Indigenous Studies: Australasian Sources

Brings together creative works from throughout Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. Starting in the 1930s and spanning up to the present, these fictional and poetry works are enriched with biographies and interviews.

Items from the published print collections which have been digitised and archived to provide online access.

Provies access to a wide range of poetic texts and related material, including interviews, photographs and audio/visual recordings.

The service and sacrifice of Australia's veterans over the past 100 years, as seen through the eyes of those who served.

Documents relation to Australia's constitutional and political history.

Through first-person accounts, including letters and diaries, narratives, and other primary source materials, the collection shares the voices of the time, providing a unique and personal view of events in the region from the arrival of the first settlers through to Australian Federation at the close of the nineteenth century.

Material relating to Australia and the Australian people, including digitized books, magazines, recordings, manuscripts, ephemera and much more.

Films, television and radio programs, videos, audio tapes, records, compact discs, phonograph cylinders and wire recordings.

Archives, manuscripts and rare printed material relating to the Pacific Islands. Hocken collections are a member library, so we have access to full text digital collections (images and pdfs).

Primary sources from China, Japan, Korea, and South East Asia, with document-based questions for educators and students of all levels. An initiative by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University.

Oral history interviews conducted with civil rights activists and other participants in the events. Also includes photographs and a few documents and articles. By the University of Vienna, translated in to English.

The National Diet Library's online exhibition "Birth of the Constitution of Japan" presents the major events and important documents involved in the framing and enactment of Japan's Constitution.

Mass education materials published in Hong Kong and in Mainland China, particularly Shanghai, in the years 1947-1954. These cartoon books, pamphlets, postcards and magazines, on topics such as foreign threats to Chinese security, Chinese relations with the Soviet Union, industrial and agricultural production, and marriage reform, were produced by both Kuomintang (Nationalist) and Gongchantang (Communist) supporters.

The Fine Arts Library and Harvard-Yenching Library holds rubbings of objects that date from the Qin Dynasty (221–207 BCE) to the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644 CE).

Includes historical images that present a visual archive of 20th century East Asian cultural heritage. Currently, the collection consists of images that document early 20th century China including the the Sino-Japanese Conflict (1937-1945), a visual history of Buddhist practices and temples in China, and other images of daily life in both rural and urban China.

Contains information and primary sources on Buddhism, Confucianism, and the countries of East Asia throughout their history. The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is located at the History Department of Fordham University, New York.

The Japanese Historical Text Initiative is a digitized, searchable database of important Japanese historical documents and their English translations.

Digital archive of works produced between 1945-1950 from the Korean collection of the University of Washington libraries. The closing of World War II on August 15, 1945 liberated Koreans from thirty-six years of Japanese occupancy. Koreans were overjoyed by their new freedom, but soon faced harsh reality.

During the Korean War, propaganda pamphlets were airdropped over North Korea. This collection contains propaganda leaflets produced by the United States Army as well as leaflets produced by the communist forces in Korea.

On December 13, 1937 the Japanese Imperial Army invaded Nanking and the ensuing six weeks became known to history as the Nanking Massacre. This web site provides access to first hand accounts and photographs from Westerners who remained in Nanking after the Japanese invasion.

The National Archives of Japan's Digital Archive provides access to the descriptions and digitized images of the historical records preserved by the National Archives of Japan.

The North Korea International Documentation Project serves as an informational clearinghouse on North Korea for the scholarly and policymaking communities, disseminating documents on the DPRK from its former communist allies that provide valuable insight into the actions and nature of the North Korean state.

Diaries of Sir Robert Hart, a British Consular official in China, covering 1854-1908. They were taken out of Hart's Peking office by a well-meaning colleague before it, his house and their contents were destroyed during the Boxer disturbances.

Find out about the 7 million archives created and used by the New Zealand Government, dating from around 1840 to the recent past. Some records are digitised and available online. If not, they’ll be held in one of the four archives in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch or Dunedin — or, in some cases, in an approved repository.

DigitalNZ brings together over 30 million digital items from over 200 different organisations all around Aotearoa. We aggregate New Zealand-related material so that it can be easily searched on one wesbsite. Our content partners include libraries, museums, galleries, government departments, media organisations, community groups, and many others.

The Early New Zealand Books Collection aims to provide a complete online full-text and keyword-searchable corpus of books about New Zealand which were published in the first two-thirds of the nineteenth century.

The collection has been developed by staff at The University of Auckland Libraries and Learning Services.

Significant New Zealand and Pacific Island texts and materials held by Victoria University of Wellington Library. Includes both digitized and born-digital material.

NZ Museums showcases New Zealand's museums and galleries and their collections. It's also a directory of museums and galleries, and an online collection management system.

These collections tell the story of the Presbyterian Church in Aotearoa New Zealand. It’s the story of a diverse range of people; Scottish settlers and Māori, missionaries and ministers, the families of Chinese goldminers and new New Zealanders from the Pacific and beyond. It’s a story of women and of young people and communities.