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The Europeans in Australia

Alan Atkinson

It is the duty of historians to be, wherever they can, accurate, precise, humane, imaginative - using moral imagination above all - and even-handed.

The Worst Woman in Sydney

Matriarch of the criminal underworld … or the Robin Hood of inner Sydney?

We all think we know the story of Ned Kelly, Australia's most famous outlaw, but we've never seen him in full colour like this before …

Minding Her Own Business

Catherine Bishop

A history that populates the streets of colonial Sydney with entrepreneurial businesswomen earning their living in a variety of small – and sometimes surprising – enterprises.

The National Tertiary Education Union

John Michael O'Brien

Paul Davey

Unfolding like a political thriller, Joh for PM reveals for the first time the details of the campaign that rocked Australian politics.

Hugh Dolan, Adrian Threlfall

View the Reg Saunders teaching resource on the Reading Australia website

Van Diemen's Land

Mr Murray Johnson, Mr Ian McFarlane

Carefully researched, using the findings of archaeologists and extensive documentary evidence, some only recently uncovered, this important book fills a long-time gap in Tasmanian history.

Australian Soldiers in Asia-Pacific in World War II

Dr Lachlan Grant

Focusing on the day-to-day interactions between soldiers on the ground and the people and cultures they encountered, this book paints a picture not only of individual lives transformed, but of dramatically shifting national perceptions, as the gaze of Australia turned from Britain to Asia.

The Europeans in Australia

Alan Atkinson

This is the third and final volume of the landmark, award-winning series The Europeans in Australia that gives an account of settlement by Britain. It tells of the various ways in which that experience shaped imagination and belief among the settler people from the eighteenth century to the end of World War I.

Anzac, The Unauthorised Biography

Carolyn Holbrook

Raise a glass for an Anzac. Run for an Anzac. Camp under the stars for an Anzac. Is there anything Australians won't do to keep the Anzac legend at the centre of our national story?

Kings Cross: A biography

Louis Nowra burrows beneath the sensationalist Underbelly 'sex and sin' narrative, revealing stories and a cast of characters – some household names others little-known - that not even a writer could conjure up.

In the shadow of Gallipoli: The hidden story of Australia in WWI

Robert Bollard

Fighting Anzacs have metamorphosed from flesh and blood into mythic icons. The war they fought in is distant and the resistance to it within Australia has been forgotten. In the Shadow of Gallipoli

Air Disaster Canberra: The plane crash that destroyed a government

Air Disaster Canberra: The plane crash that destroyed a government

Andrew Tink

The Sydney Harbour Bridge (Revised edition)

Peter Spearritt

'...clear, concise and vibrant history takes the reader on the journey from 19th-century dreams to 20th-century reality.' — Troy Lennon, Daily Telegraph

A Swindler's Progress

Kirsten McKenzie

Turning Points in Australian History

Edited by Martin Crotty, David Roberts

Anzacs and Ireland

Jeff Kildea

The Other Side of the Frontier

Ancient and Modern

Stephen Muecke

Deadly Sounds, Deadly Places

Peter Dunbar-Hall, Chris Gibson

Australian Frontier Wars, 1788-1838