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Archival photographs of Perth have been carefully matched with specially commissioned colour photos to reveal the past and present of this fascinating city.
Perth Then ...
In 1901 Federation transformed Western Australia from an independent colony to a state of the Commonwealth of Australia, and Perth gained the status of capital ...
From convicts building their own prison to an arena inspired by an 'unsolvable' puzzle, discover the quirky stories behind some of Perth's most notable ...
He fought Napoleon's army and survived.
He was sent to the gallows and escaped the noose.
Now he is in chains and on his ...
A lively and engaging portrait of a towering and complex figure of Australian colonial history.
Lachlan Macquarie is credited with shaping Australia's destiny, transforming ...
October 1958. Early morning and a workshop yard in Perth's industrial suburb of Welshpool was the scene of considerable excitement. A crowd including workshop ...
The Shipwreck of the Batavia combines in just the one tale the birth of the world's first corporation, the brutality of colonisation, the battle ...
'Mowed them down wholesale!'
With these words, a judge summed up the last great punitive massacre of Aboriginal people in Australia.
Coniston, Central Australia, 1928 ...
The incredible true story of one of the most extraordinary and inspirational prison breaks in Australian history. New York, 1874. Members of the Clan-na-Gael - agitators ...
Revised and Updated, with analysis by the ABC's Antony Green.
Veteran political journalist Peter Kennedy has spent nearly fifty years observing twelve Premiers of ...
This second edition has been brought up to date following the latest developments in the state. The human history of Western Australia, as of all ...
An engrossing account of a pivotal year in Australia's history.
This book debunks one of the hardiest cliches in Australian history- that the 1950s ...
During the 1940s and '50s in Australia there rose to prominence many icons of Aboriginal descent, representative of the culture of the day and of ...
In the early 1800s magistrates in the Australian colonies were often frustrated by the language used by reoffending convicts to disguise their criminal activities and ...
In What Do We Want! Clive Hamilton explores the colourful, enthralling and stirring forms of protest used in the big social movements that define modern ...
