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The cities - Perth, Australia, and Aberdeen, Scotland - have received relatively little attention as specific geographical-cultural locales. Often perceived as industrial, isolated and lacking romantic association ...
Yes, Sydney can be vulgar, corrupt, facile, ugly, brash and mindlessly hedonistic, but it is also visually beautiful, sensual, playful, dynamic, with a sense of ...
How did Menzies develop as the giant of Australian politics?
Sir Robert Menzies is a towering figure in Australian history. As the nation's longest-serving ...
In September 1939 Britain declared war on Germany, and the life of Uwe Radok, a young German-born engineer working in Scotland, changed forever. Classified as ...
The bold, the bad, and the slightly mad...
Criminality, some say, is part of Australia's national identity, and in Great Australian Rascals, Rogues and ...
Highly Commended in the 2022 NSW Premier's History Awards
Some generations are born unlucky. Australians who survived the horrors of the Great War and ...
In Bold Types, Patricia Clarke recounts the chequered journey of women journalists in the fight for gender equality from 1860 to the end of World ...
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Winner, 2023 NSW Premier's History Awards, Australian History Prize **
Shortlisted, 2023 Prime Minister's Literary Awards, Australian History Prize ...
A landmark book - the first full political history of Australia
Winner, ACT Book of the Year Award 2023
Winner, Henry Mayer Book Prize 2023
In ...
Can Australians find their feet within the world's diplomatic manoeuvring?
After the dubious justice of the Treaty of Versailles and the turmoil of the ...
Bushrangers are Australian legends. Ned Kelly, Ben Hall, Captain Thunderbolt and their bushranging brothers are famous. They're remembered as folk heroes and celebrated for ...
A stunning collection from the archive of Australia's greatest storyteller, Banjo Paterson.
Notebooks, illustrations, photographs, letters and transcripts of some of our best-loved songs ...
Paul R. Bartrop examines the formation and execution of Australian government policy towards European Jews during the Holocaust period, revealing that Australia did not have ...
A sequel to Old Vintage Melbourne, this collection invites you again to turn back time and revisit the diverse past of the much-loved city of ...
From Australia's greatest art historian and pioneer of post-colonialism Bernard Smith comes a new edition of this classic study of an imagined southern world ...