Research links and sources that may be useful...

NORMAN ENGLAND
Domesday Book online: http://www.domesdaybook.co.uk/index.html

CONVICT NEW SOUTH WALES - background reading for Colonial Cousin

• Broadbent, James and Joy Hughes, The Age of Macquarie. Melbourne University Press and Historic Houses Trust of NSW, Carlton, Vic., 1992.
• Karskens, Grace. The Colony: A History Of Early Sydney. Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2009.
• Ships arriving in Australia by date and giving details of the ship (1809-): http://www.blaxland.com/ozships/year/arrive/s2.htm
• Lists of ships to Australia and their descriptions: http://www.theshipslist.com/index.html
• Descriptions of ships: http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/all/journeys/ships/list.html#a

COLONIAL AUSTRALIA
Davies Hilary J, Surveying Success: The Hume Family in Colonial, Queensland. BHG & Boolarong Press, Brisbane, 2011.

• Davison, Graeme. The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne. Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Vic., second edition 2004.

WORLD WAR ONE - background reading for All Quiet on the Western Plains

• Billett, Bill. Mont St Quentin: A Soldier’s Battle. Rosenberg Publishing, Sydney, 2009.
• Denning, Roy.  Lorna Denning ed. Anzac Digger: An Engineer in Gallipoli & France (An Engineer with the First division AIF 1914-1918 No 1 Field Company 1914-1918). Australian Military History Publications, Loftus, NSW, 2004.
• De Vries, Susanna. Australian Heroines of World War One: Gallipoli, Lemnos and the Western Front. Pirgos Press, Chapel Hill, Brisbane, 2013.
• Evans, Martin Marix. Over the Top: Great Battles of the First World War, Arcturus Publishing, London, 2002.
• Evans, Martin Marix. Vital Guide: Battles of World War 1, The Crowood Press Ltd, Ramsbury, England, 2004.
• Gorrell, Richard. ‘Towner, Edgar Thomas (1890-1972)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biopgraphy/towner-edgar-thomas-8834/text15499, accessed 8 November 2013.
• Malthus, Cecil. Armentieres and the Somme. Reed Books, Auckland, NZ, 2002.
• Messenger, Charles. Trench Fighting 1914-18, The Pan/Ballantine Illustrated History of the First World War Book No 2, Pan/Ballantine, London, 1972.
• National Archives of Australia. World War 1 Service Records online.
• Reece, Ian H. Harold’s Diary: An Australian Digger’s records from World War 1, Ian Reece, Toowong, Qld, 2005.
• Rees, Peter. The Other Anzacs: Nurses at War, 1914-1918. Allen & Unwin. Sydney, 2008.
• Williams, H.R. (John Grehan & Martin Mace, eds.), An ANZAC on the Western Front: The Personal Reflections of an Australian Infantryman from 1916 to 1918, Pen & Sword Military, Barnsley, England, 2012 rpt.

ROYAL OBSERVER CORPS, WORLD WAR TWO
‘Royal Observer Corps’ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Observer_Corps ‘The Royal Observer Corps Museum: Collecting and Preserving the Heritage of the ROC’ http://therocmuseum.info/aboutus.html

Chronological history of the Royal Observer Corps’ http://www.rocassoc.org.uk/open/national/roca/hist_ng2.htm

‘The Royal Observer Corps’ http://www.thetimechamber.co.uk/beta/sites/roc-posts

‘Royal Observer Corps (ROC) History’ www.aeroventure.org.uk/royal-observer-corps-history.php


LIFE
​Relaxation Centre, Brisbane: www.relaxationcentreqld.org