The Inner History of the Kelly Gang by J.J. Kenneally
$29.95 AUD
Category: New History
I have read your book with a great deal of satisfaction, and I must congratulate you on having rendered a great service in the cause of Truth and Justice… You are the only author who has the courage to do justice to the Kelly Gang; you have liberated the truth, so long supressed, regarding the policy an ...Show more
The Last Australian Childhood by Kevin Moloney
$29.99 AUD
Category: New History
The Last Australian Childhood, written by Kevin Moloney, is a collection of 40 vignettes written in the different voices of a child, reflecting his age at the time the story is set. The stories tell of Kevin's family life, growing up in suburban Melbourne inthe 1960s as a Catholic boy who lost his fathe ...Show more
The Wealth Beneath Their Feet: A Family on the Castlemaine Goldfields by Marjorie R. Theobald
$39.95 AUD
Category: New History
Told through the lives of six families, from the colourful goldfields' era to the Second World War, The Wealth Beneath Their Feet is a social history of the central goldfields of Victoria. These stories of immigrant families with limited or no financial resources are, at times, heart-rending, and we suf ...Show more
The Women of Little Lon: Sex Workers in Nineteenth Century Melbourne by Barbara Minchinton
$32.99 AUD
Category: New History
A vivid account of a remarkable but little-known chapter in Melbourne's history. Sex workers in nineteenth-century Melbourne were judged morally corrupt by the respectable world around them. But theirs was a thriving trade, with links to the police and political leaders of the day, and the leading brot ...Show more
These Walls Speak VolumesA History of Mechanics' Institutes in Victoria by Pam Baragwanath
$99.00 AUD
Category: New History
History of approx.1,000 institutes including building status, social, adult education, library history, heritage listings, plus thematic essays about the MI movement, role of women, architecture, schools of art, schools of design and schools of mines. This is the most comprehensive study of mechanics' i ...Show more
Vandemonian Trail Convicts and Bushrangers in Early Victoria by Patrick Morgan
$29.95 AUD
Category: New History
The three pre-eminent early novelists of Australia, Henry Kingsley, Marcus Clarke and Rolf Boldrewood, were intrigued by a mysterious series of bushranging events in Victoria involving the folk heroes Bogong Jack and the Tichborne claimant among others. But these stories had been reshaped by such consta ...Show more