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  • Rural Australia and the Great War

    From Tarrawingee to Tangambalanga

    by John McQuilton ...
    In the cities and in the countryside of Australia, the Great War of 1914 - 1918 marched to somewhat different tempos. John McQuilton evokes the wartime experience of all rural Australians by capturing the moods of the country towns and hamlets of North Eastern Victoria.Every aspect of the war - recruiting, fund-raising and, eventually, homecoming and the design of the war memorial - was marked by ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Kelly Outbreak 1878-1880

    The Geographical Dimension of Social Banditry

    by John McQuilton ...
    This book examines the Kelly Outbreak against its geographical and social background. Failure to unlock the land through selection had created a class of struggling selectors who felt that the established authority of squatters and police denied them justice. Their sympathy and support helped Ned come and go as he pleased, despite the price on his head.McQuilton's exciting narrative maintains ... Read more

    $14.44 USD

  • The Empire’s Patriotic Fund

    Public Benevolence and the Boer War in an Australian Colony

    by John McQuilton ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book examines the Empire’s Patriotic Fund, established in Victoria, Australia, in 1901 to assist the dependants of the men serving in the Boer War and the men invalided home because of wounds or illness. Acting as an autonomous body and drawing on funds raised through a public appeal, its work marked one of the first attempts in Australia to deal with the consequences of Australian ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Australia's Communities and the Boer War

    by John McQuilton ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book explores an Australian regional community’s reaction to, and involvement with, the Boer War. It argues that after the initial year the war became an ‘occasional war’ in that it was assumed that the empire would triumph. But it also laid the foundations for reactions to the outbreak of the Great War in 1914. This is the first exploration of the place of the Boer War in Australian history ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Australians (Volume 2): Eureka to the Diggers

    Eureka to the Diggers

    by Thomas Keneally ...
    In this companion volume of Thomas Keneally's widely acclaimed history of the Australian people, the vast range of characters who have formed our national story are brought vividly to life. Immigrants and Aboriginal resistance figures, bushrangers and pastoralists, working men and pioneering women, artists and hard-nosed radicals, politicians and soldiers all populate this richly drawn portrait of ... Read more

    $14.09 USD

  • Australia: A History: by the former Prime Minister Tony Abbott with a foreword by Geoffrey Blainey

    From convict colony to great democracy

    by Tony Abbott ...
    How an ancient land became a great democracy.Longlisted for Best Non Fiction in the Indie Book Awards 2026'Tony Abbott should be congratulated ... This history of Australia is vivid, readable, provocative**' Geoffrey Blainey, historian**'I think it's very good' Tom Holland, historianAustralia is one of the world's great success stories: a land long hidden from outsiders, chosen as a convict ... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Eureka: The Unfinished Revolution

    from the author of The Opera House, Batavia and Mutiny on the Bounty

    by Peter FitzSimons ...
    Eureka Stockade - the unfinished revolution . . . In 1854, Victorian miners fought a deadly battle under the flag of the Southern Cross at the Eureka Stockade. Though brief and doomed to fail, the battle is legend in both our history and in the Australian mind. Henry Lawson wrote poems about it, its symbolic flag is still raised, and even the nineteenth-century visitor Mark Twain called it: � a ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Mrs Kelly: The astonishing life of outlaw Ned Kelly's mother, from the bestselling award-winning author of THE REMARKABLE MRS REIBEY, SISTER VIV and HUDSON FYSH

    by Grantlee Kieza ...
    The astonishing life of Ned Kelly's motherWhile we know much about the iconic outlaw Ned Kelly, his mother Ellen Kelly has been largely overlooked by Australian writers and historians -- until now, with this vivid and compelling portrait by Grantlee Kieza, one of Australia's most popular biographers.When Ned Kelly's mother, Ellen, arrived in Melbourne in 1841 aged nine, British convict ships were ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Australia's Second Chance

    What our history tells us about our future

    by George Megalogenis ...
    The bestselling author of The Australian Moment asks the most important question confronting the country right now – how do we maintain our winning streak?Most nations don't get a first chance to prosper. Australia is on its second. For the best part of the nineteenth century, Australia was the world's richest country, a pioneer for democracy and a magnet for migrants. Yet our last big boom was ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • True Girt

    The Unauthorised History of Australia Volume 2

    by David Hunt ...
    Series Book 2 - The Unauthorised Histories of Australia
    In this side-splitting sequel to his best-selling history, David Hunt takes us to the Australian frontier. This was the Wild South, home to hardy pioneers, gun-slinging bushrangers, directionally challenged explorers, nervous indigenous people, Caroline Chisholm and sheep. Lots of sheep.First there was Girt. Now comes . . . True GirtTrue Girt introduces Thomas Davey, the hard-drinking Tasmanian ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Kelly Hunters: The gripping true story of the desperate manhunt to bring down Australia's most notorious outlaw, from the bestselling award-winning author of MRS KELLY, BANJO and SISTER VIV

    by Grantlee Kieza ...
    The desperate manhunt to bring down Australia's most notorious outlawWhen Ned Kelly and his band of young tearaways ambushed and killed three brave policemen in a remote mountain camp in 1878, they sparked the biggest and most expensive manhunt Australia had seen. The desperate search would end when Kelly and his gang, wearing suits of armour, tried to derail a train before waging their final ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Australia's Most Notorious Convicts: From thieves and bushrangers to murderers and cannibals

    by Barbara Malpass Edwards ...
    Thousands of convicts were transported to Australia. Of these, some managed to escape incarceration and went on to achieve notoriety in their new land. A few tried to invent a Robin Hood reputation, taking the side of the poor settler against those in authority. Some committed crimes so heinous they were both feared and despised by the general population. Their lives were desperate, their fate ... Read more

    $4.99 USD