HISTORY

  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...

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...

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 Gulag Archipelago helped to bring down an empire. Its importance can hardly be exaggerated' Doris Lessing, Sunday Telegraph WITH A NEW FOREW...

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

 The vast continent of Australia was settled in two main streams, far apart in time and origin. The first came ashore some 50,000 years ago when th...

TOP END NURSES BUSH NURSES IN THE TOP END OF AUSTRALIA'S NORTHERN TERRITORY 1964-1974

A revised, reissued fortieth anniversary edition of this prize-winning, bestselling account of one woman's solo journey across 1,700 miles of Austr...

First there was Girt. Now comes ...True Girt In this side-splitting sequel to his best-selling history, David Hunt takes us to the Australian front...

The greatest engineering problem facing Australia – the tyranny of distance – had a solution: the electric telegraph, and its champion was the shee...

Death and Survival in the Anti-Communist Violence in East Java, Indonesia The anti-communist violence that swept across Indonesia in 1965–66 produc...

Australian governments find it easy to go to war. Their leaders seem to be able to withdraw with a calm conscience, answerable neither to God nor h...

WRITTEN BY MRS BACH Did Mrs Bach write some of our greatest musical works? It's not often that one of the world's greatest composers is accused of ...