Welcome to Local History by Edwin Jaggard, Robert Baugh and the History Association of Western Australia

Book Description

Secondhand. Fair condition. Significant wear to book corners and edges, particularly back cover. Marks on covers. Previous owner has stamped inside page. Interior and binding are still very good.

An Education Department publication produced in Western Australia's bicentenary year 1979 to stimulate student interest in discovering the past.

Contains stories of the state from its indigenous roots to its colonial and modern history, along with a list of suggested activities for students.

Explores the social history of regional towns like York and early settlements of Albany in 1826 and the Swan River Colony in 1829. Chapters include biography and family history, talking history, diaries, letters, papers and photographs, cemetery puzzles, old buildings, people and places.