Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for it and gave it back. In 1889, thousands of hopeful people raced southward from the Kansas state line and westward from the Arkansas boundary to stake claims ...Show more
Jews Don't Count by David Baddiel
$17.99 AUD
Category: History
David Baddiel examines the -ism that woke culture and identity politics leave behind: antisemitism. Jews Don't Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight against homophobia, disablism, transphobia and, particularly, racism. People, possibly, like you.It is t ...Show more
Tutankhamun's Trumpet: The Story of Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects by Toby Wilkinson
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
On 26 November 1922 Howard Carter first peered into the newly opened tomb of an ancient Egyptian boy-king. When asked if he could see anything, he replied: ‘Yes, yes, wonderful things.’ In Tutankhamun’s Trumpet, acclaimed Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson takes a unique approach to a well-worn subject. Inst ...Show more
Banjo Paterson: A Life in Pictures and Words from the Banjo Paterson Family Archive by Alistair Campbell
$44.99 AUD
$49.99 (10% off)
Category: History
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, poems and stories have been brought together for the first time. Banjo's great-grandson and sole executor of the po ...Show more
The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy And The Wrecking Of Henry I's Dream by Charles Spencer
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
‘As gripping as any thriller. History doesn't get any better than this' BILL BRYSON 'A brilliant read … Spencer has a real facility for getting these characters to leap fully formed from the page … Game of Thrones but in the real world' ANTHONY HOROWITZ 'The medieval Titanic … Charles Spencer explores ...Show more
The Astonishing History of Ballarat. Volume 3. 1851-1878 - The Story of the Quartz Miners of Ballarat by Doug Bradby; Carson Ellis (Illustrator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
In 1856, at the height of the alluvial goldrush, Ballarat produced 823,334 ounces of gold. By 1878 the figure was a mere 12,984 ounces. Ballarat was 'on its last legs.' However, in the Black Hill, Llanberris, Temperance and Imperial mines, miners had developed efficient ways to find and extract gold fro ...Show more
The Astonishing History of Ballarat. Volume 4. 1879-1959 - How the Quartz Miners Prolonged Mining in Ballarat by Doug Bradby; Carson Ellis (Illustrator)
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
The Astonishing History of Ballarat, Volume 4, reveals the crucial role played by quartz mining in Ballarat from 1879 until today. Quartz mining only produced about 16% of all gold found in Ballarat, but it saved Ballarat when the alluvial gold petered out in the mid 1870s.
The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters by Adam Nicolson
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 'A thrilling and complex book, enlarges our view of Homer ... 'There's something that hits the mark on every page' - Claire Tomalin, Books of the Year, New Statesman Where does Homer come from? And why does Homer matter? His epic poems of wa ...Show more
A History of Christianity - The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
Christianity, one of the world's great religions, has had an incalculable impact on human history. This book, now the most comprehensive and up to date single volume work in English, describes not only the main ideas and personalities of Christian history, its organisation and spirituality, but how it h ...Show more
Chinese Roots by Yvonne Horsfield
$26.95 AUD
Category: History
A BIOGRAPHICAL ACCOUNT OF THE WELL-KNOWN BALLARAT TONG WAY FAMILY FROM 1863 ONWARD... Striving to become accepted, this account is filled with the historical impacts of a family looking to find a home while they dealt with the battles of religion and the introduction of the White Australia Policy.
Encounters with Euclid - How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World by Benjamin Wardhaugh
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
Euclid's Elements of Geometry was a book that changed the world. In a sweeping history, Benjamin Wardhaugh traces how an ancient Greek text on mathematics - often hailed as the world's first textbook - shaped two thousand years of art, philosophy and literature, as well as science and maths. Thirteen v ...Show more
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
This is the critically acclaimed, best-selling account of the forgotten story of one of history's most brutal massacres. In December 1937, the Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking. Within weeks, more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers were systematically raped, tortured, and mur ...Show more