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 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...

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...

In May 1939, Australia's Naval Intelligence had the foresight to set up a network of men located on various islands north of Australia to report on...

Winner of the 2020 Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award for nonfiction and the 2019 NSW Premier's History Awards for general history. How di...

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...

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

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...

Millions of Australians who will vote in the upcoming referendum have little knowledge of the history of our relations with the traditional owners....