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Australian lives : an intimate history [catalogue record | book]
By Anisa Puri and Alistair Thomson
Champions all : a history of AFL/VFL football in the players own words [catalogue record | book]
by Matt Zurbo
Cottoning on : stories of Australian cotton-growing [catalogue record | book]
by Siobhán McHugh
Cracking Awaba : stories of Mosman & northern beaches communities during the Depression [catalogue record | book]
by Paula Hamilton with SHOROC Libraries
Down there with me on the Cowra Mission : an oral history of Erambie Aboriginal Reserve, Cowra, New South Wales [catalogue record | book]
edited by Peter Read
The fishermen of Iron Cove : in un mare diverso [catalogue record | book]
by Annette Salt with Leichhardt Library
Greek cafés and milk bars of Australia [catalogue record | book]
by Effy Alexakis and Leonard Janiszewski
Isabel Flick : the many lives of an extraordinary Aboriginal woman [catalogue record | book]
by Isabel Flick and Heather Goodall
Memory and Migration in the Shadow of War : Australia's Greek Immigrants after World War II and the Greek Civil War [catalogue record | book]
by Joy Damousi
Moving stories : an intimate history of four women across two countries [catalogue record | book]
by Alistair Thomson with Phyllis Cave and others
New day dawning : the early years of Sydney's gay & lesbian Mardi Gras [catalogue record | book]
by Gavin Harris, John Witte & Ken Davis.
Parra-phrases : oral histories of Parramatta Park [catalogue record | book]
A catalogue accompanying a 2001 exhibition that was a joint project between the Parramatta Heritage Centre and Parramatta Park Trust.
Parramatta girls [catalogue record | book]
by Alana Valentine
People of the Cross : true stories from people who live and work in Kings Cross [catalogue record | book]
by Gina Lennox and Frances Rush
Shelter from the storm : Bryan Brown, Samoan chieftains and the little matter of a roof over our heads [catalogue record | book]
by Siobhán McHugh
The Snowy : the people behind the power [catalogue record | book]
by Siobhan McHugh
Talking Lapa : a local Aboriginal community history of La Perouse [catalogue record | book]
New South Wales Board of Studies
Weevils in the flour : an oral record of the 1930's depression in Australia [catalogue record | book]
by Wendy Lowenstein
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