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In 1835 a renegade group of Tasmanians wishing to expand their landholdings disembarked in what was to become Melbourne. This colonising expedition was funded by ...
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 ...
Place-based cultural knowledge - of ceremonies, songs,
stories, language, kinship and ecology - binds Australian Indigenous societies
together. Over the last 100 years or so, records of ...
A powerful and lyrical work by a writer of vision and imagination, Shadow Lines is the story of Jessie Argyle, born in the remote East ...
WINNER of the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2020: Non-Fiction
This book explores the experiences of Indigenous Australians who participated in Australian exploration enterprises in ...
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 ...
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 ...
