Bitter Roots, Sweet Fruit: a History of Schools in Collingwood, Abbotsford and Clifton Hill by Karen T. Cummings
$39.99 AUD
Category: New History
Aims to identify and locate every school that has ever existed in the area covered by the former city of Collingwood, comprising the suburbs of Abbotsford, Collingwood and Clifton Hill. It also placed the schools within the Melbourne and Victorian educational context as well as within the wider context ...Show more
The First Migrants - How Black Homesteaders' Quest for Land and Freedom Heralded America's Great Migration by Richard Edwards; Jacob K. Friefeld; Angela Bates (Preface by)
$69.99 AUD
Category: New History
The First Migrants recounts the largely unknown story of Black people who migrated from the South to the Great Plains between 1877 and 1920 in search of land and freedom. They exercised their rights under the Homestead Act to gain title to 650,000 acres, settling in all of the Great Plains states. Some ...Show more
Talking Sideways by Malcolm Reg; McKinnon Dodd
$32.95 AUD
Category: New History | Reading Level: 3
'That's the way it is with us mob. We were brought up to talk kind of sideways. That's the respectful, true Aboriginal way.' Reg Dodd grew up at Finniss Springs, on striking desert country bordering South Australia's Lake Eyre. For the Arabunna and for many other Aboriginal people, Finniss Springs has ...Show more
The Wealth Beneath Their Feet: A Family on the Castlemaine Goldfields by Marjorie R. Theobald
$39.95 AUD
Category: New History
Told through the lives of six families, from the colourful goldfields' era to the Second World War, The Wealth Beneath Their Feet is a social history of the central goldfields of Victoria. These stories of immigrant families with limited or no financial resources are, at times, heart-rending, and we suf ...Show more
Australia: William Blandowski's Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Life by Harry Allen
$60.00 AUD
Category: New History
William Blandowski was an explorer, natural scientist and artist who led an expedition to the junction of the Murray and Darling Rivers from 1856 to 1857. Australia is the first publication in English of his illustrated encyclopaedia of Aboriginal life. Blandowski explores the potential of images to por ...Show more
Australian History Live by Ian Warden
$60.00 AUD
Category: New History
This book is a collection of virtual time-travellings back to Australiae(tm)s past. AustralianHistory Live! is a compelling look at Australian history using first person accounts asreported in the press and in journals and diaries. Included in the collection are grippingaccounts of occasions both great ...Show more
A Short History of England by Simon Jenkins
$24.99 AUD
Category: New History
From the invaders of the dark ages to the aftermath of the coalition, one of Britain's most respected journalists, Simon Jenkins, weaves together a strong narrative with all the most important and interesting dates in a book that characteristically is as stylish as it is authoritative.A Short History of ...Show more
The Inner History of the Kelly Gang by J.J. Kenneally
$29.95 AUD
Category: New History
I have read your book with a great deal of satisfaction, and I must congratulate you on having rendered a great service in the cause of Truth and Justice… You are the only author who has the courage to do justice to the Kelly Gang; you have liberated the truth, so long supressed, regarding the policy an ...Show more
Places Women Make - Unearthing the contribution of women to our cities by Jane Jose
$29.95 AUD
Category: New History
Places Women Make tells stories of women shaping the Australian city - its buildings, spaces, and social and political agendas. Jane Jose takes a fresh look at city life, great places and the unsung urban heroines who made them. She explores the design of cities, the places we need and suggests urban l ...Show more
The English and Their History by Robert Tombs
$35.00 AUD
Category: New History | Reading Level: very good
A New York Times 2016 Notable Book Robert Tombs's momentous The English and Their History is both a startlingly fresh and a uniquely inclusive account of the people who have a claim to be the oldest nation in the world. The English first came into existence as an idea, before they had a common ruler ...Show more
Australian Bush Pubs 2/e: A Celebration of Outback Australia's Iconic Watering Holes by Cathy Craig and Savage Lewis
$49.99 AUD
Category: New History
From the authors of Australias favourite bush camping and 4WD guides comes a striking review of Australias iconic bush pubs. No-one is in a better position to know which are the countrys most extraordinary bush pubs - or to write about and photograph them. Lavishly illustrated with striking and fascinat ...Show more
The East Indian by Brinda Charry
$32.99 AUD
Category: New History
Meet Tony- the first Indian to set foot on American soil.Among the settlers, slaves, and indentured servants that make the treacherous journey across the Atlantic to the New World in the early 1600s - for some, an exciting opportunity, for others, a brutal abduction - there is also Tony. As a child, his ...Show more