Historical resources

Online archives search

To find information on records held in the Archives - view the Online Archives Search or visit our Photographs��貹�� for information on the Archives' photographic collections.

��¼� calendars handbook

Online versions of (1950 - 2012)
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(1959 – 1998)
(1968 – 2009)

Calendars and Handbooks are sources for ��¼� course descriptions, staff lists and administrative information about the university. They also contain maps of the campus.

Uniken/ ��¼� magazine

All issues of Uniken / ��¼� magazine are available for viewing via ��Ի��. Print copies can be accessed in the Archives.

Tharunka

Issues of the student magazine Tharunka are available for viewing via ��Ի��. Print copies can be accessed in the Archives.

Online exhibitions

View photographs and information on ��¼� Women,��international students,��named buildings on the Kensington campus, the C. S. (Jim) Smith caricatures,��Archives' posters collection,��development of the Kensington Campus,��lost features of the Kensington campus, ��Foundation Days,��chancellors,��vice-chancellors and former chancellor Sir John Clancy��.

�� also provides more examples of images of the ��¼� campus during the 1960s.

Online exhibitions

University timeline

��¼�'s 70th anniversary timeline

In 2019 ��¼� Alumni produced a to celebrate the university's 70th anniversary, using many photographs from the Archives' collection.

��¼�'s 60th anniversary slideshow

In 2009 ��¼�'s Media Office produced a slideshow to celebrate the university's 60th anniversary, using many photographs from the Archives' collection.

A pdf of the slideshow can be viewed at 60th Anniversary slideshow.

��¼� published histories

Reference material on the university is also available for access in the Archives' Reading Room.

Published histories about ��¼� include:

Cashman, R., Hughes, A. & Zavos, Z. (2005). The Pavilion on the Village Green: A History of the University of New South Wales Sports Association.
Daniels, Eric C. (1988). A History of the Faculty of Architecture.
Davis, Adela R. (2019). Something Borrowed, Something Blue: 50 Years of New College, ��¼� 1969-2019.
Dixon, Marion. (2001). Thirty Up: the story of the ��¼� Law School.
Douglas, J. B. (1996). A Brief History of the Department of Statistics, the University of New South Wales (1948 - 1983).
Frame, Tom. (2017). Widening Minds: The University of New South Wales and the education of Australia's defence leaders.
Hampton, B., Allen, B. & Loeffel, R. (2009). The History of the ��¼� Faculty of Engineering 1949 - 2009.
Hampton, B. (2012). The History of the ��¼� School of Chemical Engineering 1949 - 2009.
Hampton, B. & Allen, B. (2010). The History of the ��¼� School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications 1949 - 2009.
Hampton, B. & Allen, B. (2010). The History of the ��¼� School of Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering 1949 - 2009.
Hampton, B. & Allen, B. (2010). The History of the ��¼� School of Mining Engineering 1949 - 2009.
Hughes, Anthony T. (2024). The Badge We Wear: A History of Sport at ��¼� Sydney.
Lawrence, L. J., Ward, C. R., Neef, G. & Rickwood, P. C. (2003). Fifty Plus: A History of Geology at the University of New South Wales 1949 - 2002
Le Moignan, Mick. (2017). ��¼�: Australia's Global University.
Loeffel, R. (2007). The History of the ��¼� School of Surveying and Spatial Information Systems 1949 - 2007.
Luscombe, Desley (ed) (2001). ��¼� Campus: A Guide to its Architecture, Landscape and Public Art.
McLintock, Rae (1993). The Development of the Buildings and Grounds of the University of New South Wales.
O'Connell, M. (2010). The History of the ��¼� School of Civil & Environmental Engineering 1949 - 2010.
O'Farrell, Patrick (1999). ��¼� A Portrait: The University of New South Wales 1949-1999.
Pfennigwerth, Ian. (2012). ADFA: the first 25 years of the Australian Defence Force Academy.
The School of Chemistry (1999). The School of Chemistry: the University of New South Wales (1879 - 1999).
Scobie, Claire (2015). Basser, Philip Baxter and Goldstein: The Kensington Colleges.
Willis, A. H. (1983). The University of New South Wales: The Baxter Years.
Winton, Ronald (1999). With Hand and Mind and Heart: A look back at the first quarter century of the Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales.