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(Left) Cover of surveyor field book, 1932; (right) surveyor at work, c1913

NSW Surveyor Field Books: What Every Researcher Needs to Know

The NSW State Archives Collection holds thousands of field books submitted to the Surveyor General, dating from as early as 1794 to the 1990s. Join us for this webinar to learn how to access these fabulous records detailing the landscapes of NSW and explore the information they contain.

Distribution of 50 free girls (from the Foundling Hospital, Cork) who arrived July 1831 by the Palambam

NSW assisted immigration

… the immigrants appear almost universally to have arrived in good order, and well-satisfied with their treatment: ten significant objects/documents relating to assisted emigration from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, 1830-1890

‘Confused heaps’ and ‘systematic order’: Keeping records in 19th-century NSW

This webinar examines how records and the work of their keepers was organised and explore the material world of those ‘charged with the arrangement and care of Records’.

Proceedings [Judge Advocate's Bench]

On the Bench: Records of the Lower Courts of NSW

This webinar explores the bench books held in the NSW State Archives Collection. These wonderful volumes record the minutes of proceedings of various Benches of Magistrates as well as later Courts of Petty Sessions.