HISTORY

  The last decade of the nineteenth century was a tough time for South Australia's Top End settlement of Palmerston. The major industries of minin...

  In 1942 the air defence of the northern Australian frontier town of Darwin was operated by airmen from the United States. Flying P-40E Warhawks,...

This is a true story of greed, courage, exploration, murder, wasted efforts, life and death struggles, insubordination, incredible seamanship, and ...

Author: Alan Powell This fifth edition has been revised to bring the Territory story into the 21st Century. 'Powell has achieved an outstanding suc...

This is a must text book for students of history and others who have an interest in the Northern Territory’s history. Although first published in 2...

Central Australia has, with reason, been seen as the last frontier of Australia and, politically, the forgotten country. This book distils the conc...

The Iwaidja woman, her belly opened by a bayonet, slipped below the dark water. Her 6-year-old daughter, Reveral, watched in terror. Her baby siste...

FROM HOSPITAL TO UNIVERSITY A NORTHERN TERRITORY NURSING STORY

  Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia... In this hilarious history, David Hunt tells the real story of Australia's past fro...

SHORTLISTED, Baillie Gifford Prize, United Kingdom, 2025 Helen Garner's acclaimed three volumes of diaries are collected here in one sumptuous book...

Australia's contribution to Indonesia's independence struggle is broadly well-known and this book explores an important part of the story: Australi...

Dr Robyn Smith, the author, is a lecturer in colonial history at Charles Darwin University and a conjoint lecturer at the University of Newcastle. ...

When acclaimed historian Henry Reynolds moved from Hobart to Townsville to teach Australian history in the 1960s, he discovered the books of the pe...

Discover Majapahit, Indonesia’s greatest empire. In the 14th and 15th centuries, the Majapahit kingdom reigned supreme in eastern Java, and its inf...

  This is the story of a founding document in Australian democracy and the people who made it. It paints a vibrant picture of the profound and anci...

George Goyder was the first European explorer to see great salt lakes in the inland in flood and to witness the amazing transformation that follows...

The maritime history of Australia's monsoon coast, stretching from Broome to Thursday Island, has a known story that is far older, more complex and...

Miles Franklin-award winner Melissa Lucashenko's searing essays and journalism published together for the first time. 'For thousands of years, glob...

Ochre and Rust takes nine Aboriginal and colonial artefacts from their museum shelves, and positions them at the centre of these gripping, poignant...

A Charles Darwin University academic has shed light on the death of explorer Ludwig Leichhardt, whose disappearance in the Outback has remained a m...

A landmark history of Australia's first successful settler farming area, which was on the Hawkesbury-Nepean River. Award-winning historian Grace Ka...