HISTORY

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 f...

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...

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 anc...

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...

For many of the Royal Marines sent to Port Essington, life was a living hell of malaria, scurvy, termites, shipwrecks, cyclones, boredom, isolation...

Dick Dakeyne’s self-published book Radar Gunner has won the 2015 Chief Minister’s Northern Territory History Book Award. Radar Gunner tells of Dake...

Australian history has undergone major transformations over the twentieth and twenty first centuries. Started by small groups of antiquarians and n...

Fort Dundas was the first outpost of Europeans in Australia's north. It was a British fortification manned by soldiers, marines and convicts, and b...

The story of the most audacious serial heist in the history of Australia's museums - and the British gentleman adventurer who pulled it off and got...

  The most important work of modern science now available in Vintage ClassicsDiscover Charles Darwin's most important ideas...When the eminent nat...