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Bain Attwood
Beyond the generalisations of national and colonial history, what can we know about how Aboriginal nations interacted with the British settlers who invaded their country, the men appointed by the…
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James Mitchell
Men at War takes an intimate look at the Australian 2/2nd Pioneer Battalion, which was formed in Victoria in 1940 as Australia entered the Second World War.
In 1941 and…
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Paul Dalgarno
Entertaining, insightful, funny and thought-provoking, Prudish Nation adjusts the country's bedside lamp to show us a little more clearly who and what we really are.
Danielle Scrimshaw
A joyous look at the history of lesbian and bisexual women in Australia – from colonisation to convict times, through suffrage and liberation to today.
Carmel McKenzie
This is a fascinating work of St Kilda's development and human history
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Jordana Silverstein
Cruel Care tells a story of government, politics and the emotions that drive decisions. It asks why Australia has treated child refugees with violence and why governments say that the…
Claire G. Coleman
A deeply personal exploration of Australia’s colonisation past, present and future by one of Australia’s finest contemporary authors.
Henry Reynolds
In Forgotten War, winner of the 2014 Victorian Premier’s Award for non-fiction, influential historian Henry Reynolds makes it clear that there can be no reconciliation without acknowledging the wars fought…
Sally Young
In 1941, the paper emperors of the Australian newspaper industry helped bring down Robert Menzies. Over the next 30 years, they grew into media monsters.
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Jamie Callister
Published to coincide with Vegemite's 100th anniversary, the fascinating true story of the man who invented Australia's most enduring cultural icon, fully revised and updated.
Michelle Arrow (ed.)
Three generations of women explore the trailblazing Whitlam era.
David Dufty
Alan Turing saved millions of lives. But Bletchley Park wasn't the only major code-breaking operation during World War II. Down under, there was Central Bureau.
Central Bureau - Australia's own…
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Anne Scrimgeour
In 1946 Aboriginal people walked off pastoral stations in Western Australia's Pilbara region, withdrawing their labour from the economically important wool industry to demand improvements in wages and conditions. Their…
Chris Wallace
Political Lives is an intimate history of image-making and image-breaking in national politics.
Patricia Clarke
Patricia Clarke recounts the chequered journey of women journalists in the fight for gender equality from 1860 to the end of World War II.
Meg Foster
Bushrangers are Australian legends. Ned Kelly, Ben Hall, Captain Thunderbolt and their bushranging brothers are famous. They’re remembered as folk heroes and celebrated for their bravery and their ridicule of…
Brett Mason
Two Australian scientists played a vital yet largely unknown role in the Allied victory in the Second World War. Almost eight decades later, Wizards of Oz finally tells their story.
Marcia Langton, Rachel Perkins
The dramatic story of the collision of two worlds that created contemporary Australia. It begins in 1788 in Warrane, now known as Sydney, with the friendship between an Englishman, Governor…
Joel Stephen Birnie
From the early Bass Strait sealing industries to George Augustus Robinson’s ‘conciliation’ missions, to Aboriginal internment on Finders Island and at Oyster Cove, My People’s Songs is both a constellation…
Peter Beilharz,Sian Supski
An exploration of the work and legacy of one of Australia’s most distinguished historians
Phillip Deery
Phillip Deery’s Spies and Sparrows: ASIO and the Cold War shines a powerful new light on the history of ASIO and raises important and enduring questions about the nature and…
Katy Barnett,Jeremy Gans
An illuminating and entertaining history of the law’s treatment of animals
Thomas H Ford, Justin Clemens
What does the first poetry in Australia, written by the Judge who declared the land terra nullius, tell us about the singular nature of colonialism here?
If we are to take seriously the need for telling the truth about our history, we must start at first principles.
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Ann McGrath, Laura Rademaker, Jakelin Troy (eds)
Everywhen is a groundbreaking collection about diverse ways of conceiving, knowing, and narrating time and deep history.
John Blaxland, Clare Birgin
This unofficial account of Australian Signals intelligence reveals the organisation's efforts to reveal the secrets of others.
Marlee Silva
My Tidda, My Sister shares the experiences of many Indigenous women and girls, brought together by author and host of the Tiddas 4 Tiddas podcast, Marlee Silva. The voices of…
Christine Helliwell
Winner of the Les Carlyon Literary Prize and the Prime Minister's Literary Awards Australian History Prize. First Runner Up for Templer Medal Book Prize (UK). Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's…
Stuart Macintyre
The fifth edition of A Concise History of Australia brings together the long narrative of Australia’s First Nations’ peoples; the arrival of Europeans and the era of colonies, convicts, gold…
Lucy Frost
Many thousands of abandoned children were treated as free labour in late 19th century Australia, yet their stories have been hidden until now, even to their descendants. Lucy Frost's painstaking…
Gary Presland
The Kulin nation lived around Port Phillip Bay and the Yarra River valley. Gary Presland looks at the Eastern Kulin peoples from before European invasion in the mid-1830s and their…
Frank Bongiorno
A landmark book - the first full political history of Australia
Robert Kenny
Traces the life of Nathanael Pepper of the Wotjobaluk people, who was born as the first pastoralists were driving cattle and sheep into Victoria’s Wimmera region. The story of Pepper’s…
James Boyce
With the founding of Melbourne in 1835, a flood of settlers began spreading out across the Australian continent. In three years more land - and more people - was conquered…
Joan Beaumont
How a nation still in grief from the Great War found the courage and resilience to face a new tragedy, the Great Depression.
Henry Reynolds, Nicholas Clements
Henry Reynolds and Nicholas Clements uncover the extraordinary story of one of Australia’s greatest military leaders.
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The second edition of the bestselling Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia, a unique tool for exploring and understanding the lives and cultures of Australia’s First Peoples.
Susan Lawrence,Peter Davies
Everyone knows gold made Victoria rich. But did you know gold mining was disastrous for the land, drowning it in floods of sand, gravel and silt that gushed out of…
Robert Hughes
An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian Britain into a horrific penal system which was to be the precursor to the Gulag…
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Billy Griffiths
‘People would have known about Australia before they saw it. Smoke billowing above the sea spoke of a land that lay beyond the horizon. A dense cloud of migrating birds…
David Hunt
Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia. In this hilarious history, David Hunt tells the real story of Australia’s past from megafauna to Macquarie, the cock-ups and…
Bill Gammage
Explodes the myth that pre-settlement Australia was an untamed wilderness, revealing the complex, country-wide systems of land management used by Aboriginal people.
Sharon Huebner, Ezzard Flowers
Kia Kia, Noogiting Wirren, Minang Yorga, Minang Boodja.
Stuart Kells
The Convent: A City Finds its Heart tells the story of a site’s rich history and the efforts to preserve it. This is an uplifting tale of community activism.
Shauna Bostock
The powerful story of a Bundjalung woman's journey to uncover her family history.
Jane Carey
Taking to the Field is the first comprehensive history of Australian women in science from the colonial period to contemporary times.
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Peter Yule
Many dramatic incidents have played out in our courts from early history until the present, under a system of justice where barristers are the contestants. The reader will find many…
Hugh Tranter
From sea-stained dispatches to data sent back from deep space, Southern Signals is the story of Australia's use of communications to bridge vast distances through war and peace, exploration and…