HISTORY

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...

For the first time, The Australian Wars brings what for too long has been considered the historical past into connection with its reverberations in...

It is estimated up to 100,000 people died in the frontier wars that raged across Australia for more than 150 years. This is equivalent to the combi...

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...

A new, radically updated edition of the immensely successful introductory textbook on world prehistory.

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

In 1886, a notorious gang of horsemen wreaked havoc on the Overlanders' Trail that stretched across the Northern Territory into the wild Kimberley ...

The history of Australia has been written before - but not like this. In The Shortest History of Australia, Mark McKenna offers a compelling new ve...

A modern classic- Don Watson's history of Australia for children of the twenty-first century History told so well it gives us a better idea of who ...

 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...

Following general nurse training at Royal Perth Hospital, Jill remained on staff until 1963, with a year off to do midwifery training in Melbourne....

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...

In 1829 Captain Fremantle formally laid Great Britain’s claim to all of New Holland outside the bounds of New South Wales and to garrison a vast co...