Heritage - A History of How We Conserve Our Past by James Stourton
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
What is heritage? When was it invented? What is its place in the world today? What is its place tomorrow? Heritage is all around us: millions belong to its organisations, tens of thousands volunteer for it, and politicians pay lip service to it. When the Victorians began to employ the term in something ...Show more
Dark Brilliance: The Age of Reason from Descartes to Peter the Great by Paul Strathern
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
Between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment, Europe lived through an era known as the Age of Reason. This was a period which saw advances in areas such as art, science, philosophy, political theory and economics. However, all this was achieved against a background of extreme ...Show more
Bluestockings: The First Women's Movement by Susannah Gibson
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
In Britain in the 1750s, women had no power and no rights - all money and property belonged to their fathers or husbands. A brave group risked everything to think and live as they wished, despite the sneers of contemporaries who argued that books frazzled female brains and damaged their wombs. Meet the ...Show more
The Road by Christopher Hadley
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'An absolute joy to read and an early contender for every list of History Books of the Year' Sunday Telegraph 'On nearly every page a random passage takes one's breath away' The Times Have you ever heard the march of legions on a lonely country road? For two thousand years, ...Show more
The Last Bushrangers by Mike Munro
$29.99 AUD
$34.99 (14% off)
Category: History
The story of Australia's last bushranging gang - the murderous Kenniffs. Easter Sunday, 1902, deep in the Carnarvon Ranges a police constable and station manager are slain then later incinerated, their remains stuffed into saddlebags. Accused of the ghoulish crime are two members of the bushranging Ken ...Show more
A Short History of London by Simon Jenkins
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
LONDON: a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied by the Saxons, conquered by the Danes and ruled by the Normans. This unremarkable place - not even included in the Domesday Book - became a medieval maze of alleys and courtyards, later to be chequered with grand estates of Georgian splendour. It swel ...Show more
Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth by Adam Zamoyski
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
'Napoleon is an out-and-out masterpiece and a joy to read' Sir Antony Beevor, author of StalingradA landmark new biography that presents the man behind the many myths. The first writer in English to go back to the original European sources, Adam Zamoyski's portrait of Napoleon is historical biography at ...Show more
Trim, the Cartographer's Cat: The Ship's Cat Who Helped Flinders Map Australia by Matthew Flinders; Gillian Dooley; Philippa Sandall
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
A fun and quirky gift book about a much-loved ship's cat: Trim, who helped Flinders map and lap Australia. Trim was the ship's cat who accompanied Matthew Flinders on his voyages to circumnavigate and map the coastline of Australia from 1801 to 1803. Trim, The Cartographer's Cat is a charming ode to t ...Show more
The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments from the Bronze Age Collapseto Nuclear Near Misses by Dan Carlin
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
From the creator of the wildly popular podcast comes Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: History at the Extremes. Dan Carlin has created a new way to think about history. His award-winning podcast is revered for its unique blend of high drama, enthralling narration, and Twilight Zone-style twists. A politica ...Show more
The Wars of the Roses by Hugh Bicheno
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The Wars of the Roses were a prolonged brawl over an inheritance by a deeply dysfunctional extended family. The inheritance in question was the throne of England; the story is one of unbridled ambition and murderous treachery. From the 1450s, when the mentally unstable Henry VI struggled to control the ...Show more
Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples by Neil MacGregor
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
No society on Earth lacks beliefs about where it has come from, its place in the world, and the connection of individuals to the eternal. Until recently, it was widely assumed that religion was on the wane almost everywhere- now, far from becoming marginalised, the relationship between faith and society ...Show more
Timelines - The Events That Have Shaped Human History by John Haywood
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
An original new way of appreciating the vast series of events that have shaped world history, allowing complete and quick comparability between different periods and regions. In Timelines, John Haywood presents a grand sweep of global history in an immediately accessible format. Using concise, insightfu ...Show more