SARAH LUKE
This book makes lively use of institutional and court records, as well as children’s testimonies, to bring to life the experiences of boys housed on industrial training ships moored in Sydney Harbour until 1911.
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DOROTHY WICKHAM AND CLARE GERVASONI (EDS)
An endorsement of the old adage ‘good things come in small packages’ is this celebration of Ballarat Heritage Services’ 21 years of publishing. The overarching theme is of Victoria’s central goldfields but looking also to wider transnational relationships.
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WA CAWTHORNE, EDITED BY RICK HOSKING
When the South Australian Company landed on Kangaroo Island in 1836 to begin the official settlement of the province, they were surprised to find several others were already living there. William Cawthorne, writing in 1854, tells of some of these people, voiced in regional English dialects and rich with nautical expressions honed through their sea life.
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GRACE KARSKENS
Take a fascinating trip down Dyarubbin (the Hawkesbury-Nepean River) in the early colonial period with a trusty and observant guide.
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MARGARET COOK
A River with a City Problem is a pleasure to read. Despite encompassing a myriad of resources and themes, the narrative histories of the Brisbane floods of 1893, 1974 and 2011 flow effortlessly.
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PAUL GOODWIN WITH GORDON GOODWIN
The Last Navigator is the inspiring story of Queenslander Gordon Goodwin DSO, a Royal Australian Air Force navigator, who survived five years of dangerous service flying missions over north-west Europe, to become the Chief Navigator for Qantas in its pre-jet years.
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JENNIFER DEBENHAM
This book tells how sixteen films about Indigenous Australians were made and exhibited, and the influence they exerted on mainstream audiences.
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MARK DUNN
Clashing cultures, clashing classes, rampant land grabs and dispossession of the original inhabitants are the central themes in this history of the Hunter Valley.
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PAULINE CURBY (EDITOR)
The notion that Cook represents the clash of an ancient culture with a rising empire is the centralising theme of this collection of ten essays.
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