Thomas Hannay - Travelling Photographer - In the Colony of Victoria 1858-1859
$99.99 AUD
Category: History
An incredible collection of photography capturing many varied facets of life in Western Victoria, by Thomas Hannay, a photographer who travelled the region with his camera and horse-drawn film laboratory from 1858-1859. Includes photographs of Victoria's first permanent European settlements just 25 year ...Show more
The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms by Richard Fidler
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
A lost imperial city, full of wonder and marvels. An empire that was the largest the world had ever seen, established with astonishing speed. A people obsessed with travel, knowledge and adventure. Winner of the Indie Book Awards 2023 Non Fiction Book of the Year Shortlisted for the BookPeople Non Fic ...Show more
Bennelong and Phillip: A History Unravelled by Kate Fullagar
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
The first dual biography of Bennelong and Governor Arthur Phillip, two pivotal figures in Australian history – the colonised and coloniser – and a bold and innovative new portrait of both. Bennelong and Phillip were leaders of their two sides in the first encounters between Britain and Indigenous Aus ...Show more
A shamrock beneath the southern cross - An history of the Shire of Belfast 2nd ed by Pamela Marriott
$29.95 AUD
Category: History
How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler by Peter Pomerantsev
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
From one of our leading experts on disinformation, the incredible true story of the complex and largely forgotten WWII propagandist Sefton Delmer - and what we can learn from him today. FROM THE AUTHOR OF NOTHING IS TRUE AND EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE 'Elegant, effortlessly readable . . . essential readi ...Show more
The Rest is History (The Official Book from the Makers of the Hit Podcast) by Tom Holland; Dominic Sandbrook
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Make room Herodotus, stand down Bede, pipe down Pepys . . . There's a new history book in town. From the chart-topping podcast The Rest is History, a whistle-stop tour through the past from Alexander the Great to Tolkein, the Wars of the Roses to Watergate. The nation's favourite historians Tom Holland ...Show more
Up Came a Squatter : The Life and Times of Niel Black , 1839-1880 by Maggie Black
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
Niel Black, a Scot from Argyllshire, arrived in Melbourne in September intending to make his fortune. Ambitious and determined, Black became one of the most successful and energetic squatters in the Western District of Victoria - a livestock breeder and a Member of the Legislative Council. He was also a ...Show more
Dark Brilliance: The Age of Reason from Descartes to Peter the Great by Paul Strathern
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
Between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment, Europe lived through an era known as the Age of Reason. This was a period which saw advances in areas such as art, science, philosophy, political theory and economics. However, all this was achieved against a background of extreme ...Show more
By Sea & Stars: The story of the First Fleet by Trent Dalton
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Dazzling, poetic and vivid storytelling from one of Australia's greatest writers, which tells the bloody, brutal and enthralling story of the epic journey of the First Fleet. Originally published as a multi-part serial in The Australian, By Sea and Stars tells the story of the epic voyage which led to t ...Show more
Mythos: The stunningly iIllustrated story by Stephen Fry
$80.00 AUD
Category: History
No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling, we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of the Underworld ...Show more
Moving to the Lucky Country - The Clanceys of Cork and Glovers of Edinburgh by Maureen Glazebrook (Text by, Notes by, Appendix by, Research by, Footnotes by, Editor, Original Author, Preface by, Cover Design by, Prepared for Publication by, Original editor)
$25.00 AUD
Category: History
A family history about the Clancy family of Ardagh, Co. Cork, Ireland and the Glover family of Haddington and Edinburgh, Scotland. It includes the history of both families in their home country and the migration of William Clancy and Ellen Hegarty and their family to Van Diemen's Land in 1837 on the ill ...Show more
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold by Stephen Fry
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: Stephen Fry's Greek Myths
No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of the Underworld. ...Show more