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In 1963, the first US defence facility on Australian soil was established - the US Naval Communication Station at North West Cape in Western Australia.
In ...
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 ...
May Holman charted new territory for women, but the barriers she encountered and her methods of overcoming them still resonate today.
Throughout the 1930s May ...
With a history spanning 187 years, the authority now called Landgate, has seen momentous changes. From the days of survey expeditions, to world-leading innovations in ...
The title Many Maps, Charting Two Cultures, looks at the way two contrasting societies often misunderstood each other in the western third of Australia. Maps ...
In this fascinating book, renowned WA historian Penelope Hetherington turns her analytical gaze to marriage and divorce in colonial Western Australia. The Marriage Knot ends ...
The brutal shootings and bludgeoning to death of many Aboriginal men, women and children at Laverton in 1910 shocked the nation. It was the culmination ...
The old Fremantle Women's Asylum has a colourful history and the stones tell their story but inside the spectral wraiths of the poor demented ...
This is probably the most important colonial work to be published in WA. There are no other diary or letter sequences of such content from ...
Short stories of Onslow and the Ashburton set in the early 1900s. Riemann was judged the best short story writer in Australia in the 1950s ...
The Old North Road, from Perth to Geraldton, originally the only land route between the two towns was developed as a stock route. The barren ...
One of the best local histories published in WA and a beautiful book. A new edition with some upgrading. Essential reading.
From the earliest days of the Swan River Colony on the western coast of Australia, the settlement depended for its survival and progress on individuals ...