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At the end of the nineteenth century and in the early twentieth, John J. Cary was writing about Australia's First Peoples. His great contribution ...
Graham Berry (1822-1904) was colonial Australia's most gifted, creative and controversial politician. A riveting speaker, a newspaper proprietor and editor, and the founder of ...
Bernhard Otto Holtermann emigrated from Hamburg to Australia in 1858 as a destitute young man, where, in 1872, he unearthed the largest lump of gold ...
Renowned Australian-born archaeologist and prehistorian Vere Gordon Childe (1892-1957) had a lifelong fascination with socialist politics. In his early life he was active in the ...
"There will be a black Springbok over my dead body."
Just a year after ...
Harold Bell Lasseter had always claimed he had found an immense reef of gold hundreds of miles west of Alice Springs. In 1930, with Australia ...
This is a history of Australia, measured by the gun. From bushrangers and soldiers to the many farmers and recreational shooters shooting animals and each ...
An authentic picture of life among the headunting warriors of the Torres Strait islands, now in its 24th edition.
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 ...
