Kin by Nick Brodie
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
When author and historian Nick Brodie traced his own family tree, he began to see the pattern of European settlement in Australia. As he learnt about the generations of his family, Nick uncovered the social and cultural contexts and historic circumstances that shaped his ancestors: the Irish, the convic ...Show more
Notre-Dame: The Soul of France by Agnès Poirier
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
The profound emotion felt around the world upon seeing images of Notre-Dame in flames opens up a series of questions: Why was everyone so deeply moved? Why does Notre-Dame so clearly crystallise what our civilisation is about? What makes 'Our Lady of Paris' the soul of a nation and a symbol of human ach ...Show more
F*cking History by Captain, The
$25.99 AUD
Category: History
Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. Too bad it's usually boring as sh*t. Enter The Captain, the ultimate storyteller who brings history to life (and to your life) in this hilarious, intelligent, brutally honest, and crude compendium to events that happened before any of us were born. ...Show more
The First Kingdom : Britain in the Age of Arthur by Max Adams
$59.99 AUD
Category: History
The bestselling author of The King in the Northturns his attention to the obscure era of British history known as 'the age of Arthur'. Somewhere in the shadow time between the departure of the Roman legions in the early fifth century and the arrival in Kent of Augustine's Christian mission at the end of ...Show more
Diamonds and Deadlines - A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and a Female Tycoon in the Gilded Age by Betsy Prioleau
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
The first major biography of the glamorous and scandalous Miriam Leslie, titan of publishing and an unsung hero of women's suffrage Among the fabled tycoons of the Gilded Age--Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt--is a forgotten figure: Mrs. Frank Leslie. For twenty years she ran the country's largest ...Show more
The Highland Clans by Alistair Moffat
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
The story of the Highland clans is a gripping one, full of celebrated names and heroic deeds. It is also, as Alistair Moffat reveals, the story of a fearless people, shaped by the unique traditions and landscape of the Scottish Highlands. Here, he traces the history of the clans from their Celtic origin ...Show more
Atoms and Ashes: From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima by Serhii Plokhy
$55.00 AUD
Category: History
'Absolutely stunning. . . a formidable achievement. A six-part historical thriller that is essential reading for both our politicians and the ordinary citizen' Kai Bird Best-selling historian Serhii Plokhy returns with an illuminating exploration of the atomic age through the history of six nuclear dis ...Show more
Mary, Queen of Scots: A Study in Failure by Jenny Wormald; Anna Groundwater (Foreword by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\Stewart Dynasty in Scotland Ser.
Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, has long been portrayed as one of history's romantically tragic figures. Devious, naïve, beautiful and sexually voracious, often highly principled, she secured the Scottish throne and bolstered the position of the Catholic Church in Scotland. Her plotting, including probable ...Show more
Four Sisters:the Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses by Helen Rappaport
$19.99 AUD
Category: History
On 17 July 1918, four young women walked down twenty-three steps into the cellar of a house in Ekaterinburg. The eldest was twenty-two, the youngest only seventeen. Together with their parents and their thirteen-year-old brother, they were all brutally murdered. Their crime: to be the daughters of the l ...Show more
Women: Our History by Lucy Worsley
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Re-examining history from a female perspective, this book celebrates the numerous important roles women have played in culture and society that are less often told.Packed full of evocative images, this gloriously illustrated book reveals the key events in women's history - from early matriarchal societi ...Show more
The Kings and Queens of England by Ian Crofton
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
From the reign of Alfred the Great - the first king of Wessex to call himself king of England' - in the ninth century, to the shock of Norman invasion in the 11th, and from the brutal vicissitudes of late medieval kingship to the comfortable ceremonial of modern-day constitutional monarchy, the story o ...Show more
South: The Illustrated Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917 by Ernest Henry Shackleton
$35.00 AUD
Category: History
In 1914, the polar explorer Ernest Shackleton announced an ambitious plan to lead the first trek across Antarctica via the South Pole. The expedition would prove fraught with adventure--and peril. South is the remarkable tale of the ill-fated expedition, told in Shackleton's own words--breathtakingly il ...Show more