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In 1768 Captain James Cook and his crew set sail on a small British naval vessel, the boldly named Endeavour, bound for the Pacific Ocean ...
By the bestselling author of The Ship That Never WasJust after Christmas 1803, convict William Buckley fled an embryonic settlement in the land of the ...
A new perspective on a dramatic moment in Australian colonial history.
October 1830
Rebelling from years of maltreatment and starvation, a band of Ribbon Boys ...
From the arrival of Captain James Cook in 1770 to classic children's tale Dot and the Kangaroo, Ken Gelder and Rachael Weaver examine hunting ...
Shortlisted for the 2021 Ernest Scott Prize
Highly Commended - Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2021
Shortlisted for the Australian History Prize in the NSW Premier ...
From the grim docks of nineteenth-century London to the even grimmer shores of the brutal penal colony of Norfolk Island, this is a roller-coaster tale ...
Geoffrey Blainey is often described as Australia's greatest living
historian, a writer whose prolific output includes such iconic books about the
country's past ...
Breaking the Silence recovers the conflicted politics of Aboriginal affairs in the first decades of the twentieth century. From 1905, when the report of the ...
Part love story, part gripping political thriller, the poignant story of the much-lauded Maurice Blackburn exposes a time when influence-peddling was rife, when political possibilities ...
An engrossing account of a pivotal year in Australia's history.
This book debunks ...
How Australians set out to perfect the exceptional democracy they had achieved
A Democratic Nation- Identity, Freedom and Equality in Australia 1901-1925 tells the story ...
Shortlisted for the 2020 Ernest Scott Prize for History
Caroline Kearney faced a heart-breaking dilemma.
Caroline was a 31-year-old mother of six when her husband ...
Mallee Country tells the powerful history of mallee lands and people across southern Australia from Deep Time to the present.Carefully shaped and managed by ...
Acclaimed historians and writers reveal defining moments of Australian history and what impact they'll have on our future
What can we learn from recurring ...
