"Explore remarkable photographs and drawings from Australia, New Zealand and other Pacific Islands dating as far back as the mid-19th century." U.K. National Archives
An online full-text collection of a selection of Australian periodicals published between 1840-1845. Part of the Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project
"The Library holds the greatest collection in the world of material relating to Australia and the Australian people. It ranges from the earliest European works about the Great Southern Land to the most current publications. The collection includes all formats of material, from books and magazines to pictures, photographs, maps, sheet music, oral history recordings, manuscript papers, ephemera and much, much more!" Selected materials from the collections have been made available online.
Volume 1. Africa -- Volume 2. Australia -- Volume 3. Canada -- Volume 4. India -- Volume 5. New Zealand -- Volume 6. USA.
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Suggested terms to look for include - diary, diaries, letters, papers, documents, documentary or correspondence.
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Knocking About by 
Women Writing Home, 1700-1920: Female Correspondence Across the British Empire by
