| Author: | Malcolm May |
| Category: |
Local History |
Poetry about Gippsland from a bygone era, by Malcolm May. Illustrations by Magdalena Nocea. Beautifully illustrated poetry by someone who spent a lifetime in country Victoria and has chosen to celebrate it in this form.
| Author: | Bruce Pascoe |
| Category: |
Australiana |
| Awards: | Winner – Book of the Year in the 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards Winner – Indigenous Writer's Prize in the 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Awards |
JOE SKYRNSKI, CO-FOUNDER CHAMP EQUITY: 'A must read for every Australian! Drawn from the diaries of European explorers, it comprehensively explodes the self-serving myth we perpetrated about Terra Nullius, that the first Australians we... read more
| Author: | David Hill |
| Category: |
Australiana |
The author of the magnificent bestselling account of the First Fleet returns to early Sydney to tell the story of the years that followed as it's never been told before.
| Author: | Katherine Wilson |
| Category: |
Australiana |
| Series: | Monash Studies in Australian Society Ser. |
At a time when the labour-market is failing as a source of security and identity for many, domestic tinkering is emerging as a legitimate occupation in a way we have not seen since pre-industrial times. In Australia, practices of repair, invention, bui... read more
| Author: | Nick Anchen |
| Category: |
Australiana |
Melbourne underwent great changes in the decades following World War II, with rapid population growth and mass migration during the 1950s and ‘60s forever altering the face of the city.
Despite the changes, Melbourne in this period was of... read more
| Author: | Paoletti's Maps and Videos Pty Ltd (Produced by); Rudi Paoletti (Editor, Illustrator); Andrew Giles (Illustrator, Editor); Jeanette Paoletti (Illustrator) |
| Category: |
Local History |
This publication is primarily based on my finds rather than a detailed historical paper. Decades of research and ground work goes into finding all these sites, and this publication is for those wh... read more
| Author: | Raymond Paull |
| Category: |
Local History |
A history of the goldmining boom town in the heart of the Victorian mountains.
| Author: | PAOLETTI |
| Category: |
Local History |
During the mid to late 1850s, gold miners were making their way up the Big and Goulbourn Rivers, striking payable ground at regular intervals. This provides a pictorial history of this rich mining area which today is known as Wood's Point.
| Author: | Garry Linnell |
| Category: |
Australiana |
| Reading Level: | 3 Biography |
| Awards: | |
He fought Napoleon's army and survived. He was sent to the gallows and escaped the noose. Now he is in chains and on his way to the other side of the world. What happens next will become one of the most remarkable survival stories in history. The 19th century has just begun. T... read more
| Author: | David L. Mearns |
| Category: |
Australiana |
She was the glory ship of the then fledgling Australian Navy: a modern, handsome cruiser which carried a wartime complement of 645 men. But then, on 19 November 1941, HMAS Sydney encountered the German raider Kormoran i... read more
