A comprehensive overview of the history of greyhound racing in NSW, beginning with the origins of the sport in coursing and tin-hare racing through to the current controversies threatening its existence. This is essential reading for anyone with an interest in “the sport of the people”.
46 unsorted boxes in a damp basement contained the “archives” of one of Australia’s least orthodox media institutions. Amazingly, from those daunting vestiges, Liz Giuffre and Demetrius Romeo wove a compelling book about 2SER and its colourful people. Also a window onto the world outside as it changes.
This volume of Public History Review visits Changi, least glamorous of all ex-pat lifestyles; the Rachel Forster Hospital, where ladies became doctors; Collarenebri, where Aborigines searched for a place to bury their dead; and Cabramatta, where a community created a monument to legitimise its presence.
From January 1919 two waves of Spanish Flu swept across Australia. This book tells the story of the 15,000+ Australians who died, the many more who were incapacitated, and medical and health specialists who, by literally putting their lives on the line, saved countless more and gave Australia a template for what was to come a century later in 2020
Two Sisters Daring Plan that Saved Opera's Jewish Stars from the ThirdReich
Truth is stranger—and more interesting—than fiction in this historical account that’s Schindler’s List meets The Sound of Music. Bestselling
New York Post investigative journalist Isabel Vincent delves into pre-World-War-II history to recover the amazing story of two British spinsters—Ida and Louise Cook—who masterminded a plan to spirit dozens of ......
Grand homes, the opulent life of the squatocracy, class conflict, gentry and convict origins, skulduggery, human foibles and noble visions: the true story of one of Australia's leading pastoral families, centered around Como, one of Australia's favourite historic homes.
The highlights of Canberra great collections. The book features many breathtaking works of are alongside war relics amazing vehicles The magna carta and more
‘A Carlton please!’ a name that’s still shouted across every bar and hotel in Australia. It was one of six breweries that united to form the company we know today as CUB (Foster’s), yet we still call it Carlton. But this is not a book of that great company – it’s a book of the people that made Carlton the greatest. They were all part of the long ......
In 2000 AD, it is time for Australian history to speak directly to people - to explain and reveal things. This book pursues the challenge on two fronts: big themes like the environment, society and communications; and specifics which tell us about Australia over the decades: tea-drinking, brickworks, Cobb & Co, and other topics.
