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Historical Records of Victoria

Cumulative Index

Volume 8 Index

Edited by Ian MacFarlane

The cumulative index to The Historical Records of Victoria is an essential search tool for this important historical reference work.

About this Title

The Foundation Series of Historical Records of Victoria, Volumes 1–7, reproduces every available official document that survives from the vital first years of the Port Phillip District, 1835 to1840. This monumental work fills many gaps in existing knowledge and enables both specialists and the general public to test long-held beliefs about the origins of the state of Victoria.

This vast treasury of documents, assembled by editors Michael Cannon, Pauline Jones and Ian MacFarlane on behalf of Public Record Office Victoria, was published between 1981 and 1998. Attractively presented and appropriately illustrated, they form an indispensable resource for historians, researchers of all kinds, and interested citizens.

Each volume of the series covers a different aspect of early colonial society, and the arrangement of documents within each volume is thematic.

Volume 8, Cumulative Indexes, is the key to this treasury, and essential to its effective use.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction Preface
Index to Volumes 1 to 7
Index of Aboriginal personal names
Corrigenda to Volumes 1 to 7

About the Author

Ian MacFarlane has been a journalist, writer, radio broadcaster and public relations consultant. During twenty-one years at Public Record Office Victoria he co-edited Historical Records of Victoria, and compiled Genealogical Sources, two resource guides Ten Victorian Women 1854–1895 and Victorian Aborigines 1835–1901, as well as Eureka: from the Official Records and 1842 The Public Executions at Melbourne. With Myrna Deverall he produced ‘My heart is breaking’ (1993), a guide to records about Aboriginal people held at Public Record Office Victoria and the National Archives of Australia, Victorian Regional Office. He has also written a history of Australia’s first steam warship, HMCSS Victoria, and has produced several exhibitions of important nineteenth-century official documents.

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