Out of the Goldfields - A History of Ovens and Murray Hospital For the Aged
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
O'Leary of the Underworld: The Untold Story of the Forest River Massacre by Kate Auty
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A powerful investigation that reveals the deep injustices inflicted on Aboriginal people in the Kimberley in the 1920s In June 1926, a posse of police officers and white civilians murdered at least twenty Oombulgurri people at Forrest River in the Kimberley. After the massacre, a conspiracy of silence ...Show more
He Belonged To Wagga - The Great War, the AIF & Returned Soldiers In An Australian Country Town by Ian Hodges
$44.00 AUD
Category: History
Wagga's volunteers who served in the First World War were the country men of AIF lore. Some who laboured on farms might have been the bushmen of legend; a significant proportion earned their living in the same professions and occupations as city dwellers. Many of the local men who survived were profound ...Show more
For the Term of His Natural Life: An Australian Classic by Marcus Clarke
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
First published in 1874, this is a powerful tale of an Australian penal settlement, which originally appeared in serial form in a Melbourne paper. It follows the story of Rufus Dawes, a young man transported for a murder which he did not commit. Australian author and content.
Flinders: The fascinating life, loves & great adventures of the man who put Australia on the map by Grantlee Kieza
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
The extraordinary life, loves and voyages of the man who put Australia on the map Fearless, sharp-eyed and handsome, Matthew Flinders was one of the greatest of all maritime adventurers and undertook one of the most important voyages of discovery - to circumnavigate and map the famed Great Southern Land ...Show more
The Last Charge of the Australian Light Horse by Peter FitzSimons
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
On 31st October 1917, as the day's light faded, the Australian Light Horse charged against their enemy. Eight hundred men and horses galloped four miles across open country, towards the artillery, rifles and machine guns of the Turks occupying the seemingly unassailable town of Beersheba. What happened ...Show more
Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue: Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages by Michael Keen, Joel Slemrod
$44.99 AUD
Category: History
An engaging and enlightening account of taxation told through lively, dramatic, and sometimes ludicrous stories drawn from around the world and across the ages Governments have always struggled to tax in ways that are effective and tolerably fair. Sometimes they fail grotesquely, as when, in 1898, the B ...Show more
We Come With This Place: The multi-award winner by Debra Dank
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
A deeply personal, profound tribute to family and the Gudanji Country to which Debra Dank belongs. We Come with This Place is a remarkable book, as rich, varied and surprising as the vast landscape in which it is set. Debra Dank has created an extraordinary mosaic of vivid episodes that move about in t ...Show more
The Peculiar Strangers by Vivienne Mcwaters
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
They came to find gold, some did and some didn't. Some settled in North-East Victoria. These are their stories. Vivienne McWaters' second book is a masterful telling of the Chinese diaspora. It's a fascinating book of stories and history of the Chinese who came seeking gold.
Ned Kelly's Last Days: Setting the record straight on the death of an outlaw by Alex C Castles
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Australia's leading legal historian examines the chain of events that occurred between Ned Kelly's last stand at Glenrowan and the day he faced the public executioner revealing the truth behind the drama, intrigue, and pathos of the death of Australia's most notorious outlaw. Ned Kelly - Australia's bel ...Show more
The Story of Australia: For the Young (And the Curious) by Don Watson
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
A modern classic- Don Watson's history of Australia for children of the twenty-first century History told so well it gives us a better idea of who we are - and who we are likely to become. Don Watson's The Story of Australia is a modern history of our nation that integrates new understandings about Ind ...Show more