HISTORY

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...

NORTHERN VOYAGERS AUSTRALIAS MONSOON COAST IN MARITIME HISTORY

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...

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...

This engrossing story by famous Australian author Ion Idriess is an inspiring tribute to the remarkable life of Sir Sidney Kidman - the Cattle King...

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

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 nat...

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 owne...

 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