Different sights: immigrants in New England. By Dr. Janis Wilton. Documenting the stories, people, places and objects that help to tell those stories. The aim is to seek and present the different perspectives and emphases that emerge when the focus is on the histories of immigrants who, so often, were seen to be on the margins of their local communities.
Migration Heritage Centre.
The Orchid man of Paterson. By Val Anderson. Details the life of Herman Montague Rucker Rupp and his study of orchids while he was Rector of St Paul's Church of England at Paterson from 1924 to 1930. The book also contains interesting snapshots of the history of the Church of England in the Paterson Valley and records the more recent efforts of locals to retrace Rupp's steps, to find, identify and photograph the orchids he found six decades ago.
Paterson Historical Society.
The Story of Lambton – a suburb of Newcastle. The Scottish Australian Mining Company established the Lambton Colliery in 1863 following which it became one of the most profitable and technologically advanced in Australia. Not surprisingly the township of Lambton which developed nearby was one of the most prosperous in the Newcastle area.
Newcastle Family History Society.
From the Spirit: A History of Newcastle Grammar School. By Anne Dunne, Troy Duncan, Rosemary Melville. The School has links to the earliest days of Anglican education in the city, beginning in 1816 when convict Henry Wrensford taught thirty eight children in a small room in Christ Church, on the site of today's Cathedral.
Newcastle Grammar School.
