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  • Rulebreakers and Ghost Runners

    The British women who asserted their right to run

    by Katie Holmes ...
    The incredible untold stories of the British women who broke the rules and pioneered female running todayDid you know that until April 1975 women in the UK were banned from marathons and all races longer than four miles? Back in the 1960s, women started to break the rules and 'crash' men's road races, challenging discrimination and showing that they were perfectly capable of running marathons – or ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Failed Ambitions

    Kew Cottages and Changing Ideas of Intellectual Disabilities

    by Lee-Ann Monk, David Henderson, Christine Bigby, Richard Broome, Katie Holmes ...
    The history of Melbourne's Kew Children's Cottages (1887–2008) is the challenging story of an institution that failed its residents – and it is vividly relevant to today, when the rights of people with disabilities are the subject of a royal commission.Those with an intellectual disability were historically the most vulnerable in our society and the least protected. Governments continually failed ... Read more

    $39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mallee Country

    Land, People, History

    by Richard Broome, Charles Fahey, Andrea Gaynor, Katie Holmes ...
    Series series Australian History
    Mallee Country tells the compelling history of mallee lands and people across southern Australia from Deep Time to the present. Carefully shaped and managed by Aboriginal people for over 50,000 years, mallee country was dramatically transformed by settlers, first with sheep and rabbits, then by flattening and burning the mallee to make way for wheat. Government-backed settlement schemes devastated ... Read more

    $39.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Telling Environmental Histories

    Intersections of Memory, Narrative and Environment

    Edited by Katie Holmes, Heather Goodall ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History
    This collection explores the intersections of oral history and environmental history. Oral history offers environmental historians the opportunity to understand the ways people’s perceptions, experiences and beliefs about environments change over time. In turn, the insights of environmental history challenge oral historians to think more critically about the ways an active, more-than-human world ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Oral History and Australian Generations

    Edited by Katie Holmes, Alistair Thomson ...
    From 2011 to 2014, the Australian Generations Oral History Project recorded 300 interviews with Australians born between 1920 and 1989. The contributions to this book, a result of this project, reflect on the practice of oral history and how interviews can illuminate Australian social and cultural history.Three of the chapters consider oral history innovations: focusing on the potential for oral ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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    My First Popsicle

    An Anthology of Food and Feelings

    by Zosia Mamet ...
    Narrated by Zosia Mamet, Sian Clifford, Kaley Cuoco, Ted Danson, Matt Flanders, Tony Hale, Katie Holmes, Hamish Linklater, Rosie Perez, Andrew Rannells0, Gabourey Sidibe1, Patti Smith2, Full Cast3, Busy Philipps4 ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 4 min

    From a spectrum of talented authors, a collection of essays on food, and its entwinement with our emotions and our lives.Of all the essentials for survival: oxygen, water, sleep, and food, only food is a vast treasure trove of memory and of sensory experience. Food is a portal to culture, to times past, to disgust, to comfort, to love: no matter one's feelings about a particular dish, they are ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • The Sex Lives of Australians

    A History

    by Frank Bongiorno ...
    Cross-dressing convicts, effeminate bushrangers and women-shortage woes – here is the first ever history of sex in Australia, from Botany Bay to the present-day.In this fascinating social history, Frank Bongiorno uses striking examples to chart the changing sex lives of Australians. Tracing the story up to the present, Bongiorno shows how the quest for respectability always has another side to it ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Spider Woman

    A Life – by the former President of the Supreme Court

    by Lady Hale ...
    Lady Hale is an inspirational figure admired for her historic achievements and for the causes she has championed. Spider Woman is her story.As 'a little girl from a little school in a little village in North Yorkshire', she only went into the law because her headteacher told her she wasn't clever enough to study history. She became the most senior judge in the country but it was an unconventional ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A History of Australian Schooling

    by Craig Campbell, Helen Proctor ...
    At a time when schooling is more important than ever for families, and where there is great public concern about educational standards and outcomes, Craig Campbell and Helen Proctor show what is new and what is an echo of older agendas. They offer a comprehensive history of Australian schooling from colonial days to the present, highlighting the ways in which schooling has helped shape society ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Larrikins

    A History

    by Melissa Bellanta ...
    Australia has often been said to possess a "larrikin streak," from the Stiffy and Mo cartoons and the true-blue Crocodile Hunter to the characters in the silent film The Sentimental Bloke. When it first emerged around 1870, larrikin was a term of abuse, used to describe teenage, working-class hell-raisers who populated dance halls and cheap theaters, and this account journeys through the street ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dark Emu

    Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture

    by Bruce Pascoe ...
    History has portrayed Australia’s First Peoples, the Aboriginals, as hunter-gatherers who lived on an empty, uncultivated land. History is wrong.In this seminal book, Bruce Pascoe uncovers evidence that long before the arrival of white men, Aboriginal people across the continent were building dams and wells; planting, irrigating, and harvesting seeds, and then preserving the surplus and storing it ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Convict Women

    by Kay Daniels ...
    Who were the female convicts? What kinds of lives did they lead in a new society half a world away from home?Convict Women looks beyond the conventional images to draw a new and often surprising picture of convict women's experiences in a strange and harsh country. Beginning with the story of Maria Lord - convict, pioneer family woman, successful entrepreneur and abandoned wife - the book looks at ... Read more

    $12.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus