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The book paints a vivid picture of the society and poverty from which Blay's character was forged in England and the desperate, brutal nature ...
After Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, he was sent into exile on Saint Helena. He became an 'eagle in a ...
Greta, Victoria, 1911. A thunder-storm forces journalist Brian Cookson to seek shelter at a roadside cottage; he is taken in by three little girls and ...
IN the summer of 1865, when a Confederate warship sailed into the port of Melbourne, 42 men secretly enlisted to fight for the South in ...
Political Vision provides a behind-the-scenes view of Australian politics from the 1970s to 2000s, from Whitlam to Abbott, framing the past in a series of ...
This collective memoir is for anyone who has ever wondered why Aboriginal people choose to live in remote communities in the heart of Australia. It ...
Ever since the First Fleet dropped anchor, Australia's ports have been our opening to the world. They are also the breeding ground for many ...
When Harold Bell Lasseter disappeared in late 1930 it could have been the end of a mystery. Thirty-three years earlier he had staggered out of ...
In 1963, the first US defence facility on Australian soil was established - the US Naval Communication Station at North West Cape in Western Australia.
In ...
When author and historian Nick Brodie traced his own family tree, he began to see the pattern of European settlement in Australia. As he learnt ...
In the history and folklore of Australia's Commonwealth Public Service, the idea of the 'Seven Dwarfs' has been remarkably persistent. Originally a witty epithet ...