Henry Sutton - The Innovative Man by Lorayne Branch
$65.00 AUD
Category: History
I have no hesitation in claiming Henry Sutton is Australia's greatest ever inventor and, indeed, one of the greatest inventors the world has ever seen. The range of his inventions is extraordinary, including in lighting, batteries, telephony and wireless telegraphy, photography, flight, microscopy, and ...Show more
Culloden by John Prebble
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
This text, using contemporary memoirs, letters, newspapers and regimental order books, reconstructs the common mans version of the Moorland Battle and the repression and brutality that followed it for the highlanders. It challenges the rose-tinted legend of Bonnie Prince Charlie and Culloden.
100 Nasty Women of History - Brilliant, Badass and Completely Fearless Women Everyone Should Know by Hannah Jewell
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
'Vital reading' STYLIST 'Because 100 Nasty Women is so easy to read and witty, I didn't expect it to be the life changing, important book that I'm discovering it to be' PHILIPPA PERRY * * * * * * These are the women who were deemed too nasty for their times. When you learn about (the very few) women ...Show more
Bedlam at Botany Bay by James Dunk
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
What happened when people went mad in the fledgling colony of New South Wales? In this important new history of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, we find out through the correspondence of tireless colonial secretaries, the brazen language of lawyers and judges and firebrand politicians ...Show more
Matilda - Empress, Queen, Warrior by Catherine Hanley
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
A life of Matilda-empress, skilled military leader, and one of the greatest figures of the English Middle Ages Matilda was a daughter, wife, and mother. But she was also empress, heir to the English crown-the first woman ever to hold the position-and an able military general. This new biography explores ...Show more
Castaway: The extraordinary survival story of Narcisse Pelletier, a young French cabin boy shipwrecked on Cape York in 1858 by Robert Macklin
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The astonishing and unknown story of Narcisse Pelletier - a French cabin boy cast away in 1858 on the Daintree coast of far north Queensland, where he was adopted by the local Aborigines for 17 years - as a full member of the tribe, and had a family. He was then in effect kidnapped and returned to Franc ...Show more
Major Thomas: The Bush Lawyer who Defended Breaker Morant and Took on the British Empire by Greg Growden
$20.00 AUD
$32.99 (39% off)
Category: History
Opinion is still sharply divided on whether Breaker Morant and his Australian co-defendants were criminals who got what they deserved, or scapegoats used by the British Empire. Major Thomas, the bush lawyer drafted in at the last minute to defend them, is invariably depicted either as a hero or an incom ...Show more
Isabella: She-Wolf of France, Queen of England by Alison Weir
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
In Newgate Street, in the city of London, stand the meagre ruins of Christ Church. On the same site once stood a royal mausoleum set to rival Westminster Abbey in the fourteenth century. Among the many crowned heads buried there was Isabella of France, Edward II's queen - one of the most notorious femme ...Show more
The King's War by Mark Logue; Peter Conradi
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
The broadcast that George VI made to the nation on the outbreak of war in September 1939 - which formed the climax of the multi Oscar-winning film The King's Speech - was the product of years of hard work with Lionel Logue, his iconoclastic Australian-born speech therapist. Yet the relationship between ...Show more
The State of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence by Martin Meredith
$22.99 AUD
$24.95 (7% off)
Category: History
Africa is forever on our TV screens, but the bad-news stories (famine, genocide, corruption) massively outweigh the good (South Africa). Ever since the process of de-colonialisation began in the mid-1950s, and arguably before, the continent has appeared to be stuck in a process of irreversible decline. ...Show more
James Hardy Vaux's 1819 Dictionary of Criminal Slang and Other Impolite terms as Used by the Convicts of the British Colonies of Australia by Simon Barnard
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
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 intensions. Convict clerk James Hardy Vaux came up with a useful idea: a dictionary of slang and other terms used by convicts. And so, in ...Show more