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From the arrival of the first 788 convicts in 1788, to the end of transportation in 1868, a staggering 165,000 criminals were sent to ...
Filled with stories from regular Australians about life since World War Two and woven throughout with William's own anecdotes and observations, The Making of ...
Silent Memories - Traumatic Lives is a quest for understanding, an attempt to make sense of the very emotional history of the Ukrainian post-war migrants to ...
The late 1920s saw an extraordinary protest by an Australian Aboriginal man on the streets of London. Standing outside Australia House, cloaked in tiny skeletons ...
In 1893, Australian journalist William Lane enlisted 238 followers and convinced them to sail across the Pacific with him to Paraguay, intending to create a ...
In the 1940s Australian officials searched the displaced persons' camps of war-ravaged Europe to select able-bodied, fair and hardworking Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian refugees fleeing ...
First published in two-volumes in 1814, this is the enthralling account of the circumnavigation of Australia, by the man who gave our country its name ...
I do not hesitate to declare that the natives of New South Wales possess a considerable portion of that acumen, or sharpness of intellect, which ...
For Australia, a new nation with a relatively small population, the death of 60,000 soldiers during World War I was catastrophic. It is hardly ...
In 1883 white men began to drive great herds of cattle into the Victoria River District of Australia's Northern Territory, one of the last ...
In the early 19th century crofters and villagers streamed into the burgeoning cities of Scotland, settling in the crowded and damp tenements of Glasgow and ...
Good drinkers, bad swimmers and unlikely heroes. Since the nation's birth in 1901, twenty-seven politicians have sat in Australia's driving seat. Their time ...
Hugh Edwards has been fortunate enough to have been involved with four treasure ships. Recognised as the 'primary finder' of the Batavia, in this tale ...
James Fenton (1820-1901) was born in Ireland and emigrated to Tasmania (then known as Van Diemen's Land) with his family in 1833. He became ...
