1964: The Year the Swinging Sixties Began by CHRISTOPHER SANDFORD
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
1964 is a living history of one of the most pivotal years in the twentieth century. In Britain, a new Labour government promised to bring the 'white heat of technology'. The Beatles and Rolling Stones cemented their grip on the charts, while the introduction of BBC Two ended the two-channel monopoly and ...Show more
Ghosts of the British Museum: A True Story of Colonial Loot and Restless Objects by Noah Angell
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
What if the British Museum isn't a house of learning, but a vast sinkhole of still-bubbling historic injustice? What if it presents us not with a carefully ordered cross section of history but is instead a palatial trophy cabinet of colonial loot swarming with volatile and errant spirits? When artist a ...Show more
The Shortest History of Italy: A Captivating Journey from the Roman Empire to the Renaissance to a Modern Republic by Ross King
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
Embark on a captivating journey through 3000 years of Italy's rich history Italian history has always been about resilience and rebirth ... It is a country that for so many centuries has offered up visions of the wonders to which we humans, at our very best, can aspire. Italy was the centre of Europe's ...Show more
The Cubbies by Joan Healey
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
This is the rollicking tale of Australia’s first true adventure playground, when children were allowed to use a patch of public land as their own backyard, to play in freely as they wished, not as adults directed them. They chased their dreams and escaped their everyday lives by scavenging materials, bu ...Show more
The Book Of Roads And Kingdoms by Richard Fidler
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
A lost imperial city, full of wonder and marvels. An empire that was the largest the world had ever seen, established with astonishing speed. A people obsessed with travel, knowledge and adventure. Winner of the Indie Book Awards 2023 Non Fiction Book of the Year Shortlisted for the BookPeople Non Fic ...Show more
Invitation to a Banquet - The Story of Chinese Food by Fuchsia Dunlop
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
Chinese was the earliest truly global cuisine. When the first Chinese laborers began to settle abroad, restaurants appeared in their wake. Yet Chinese has the curious distinction of being both one of the world's best-loved culinary traditions and one of the least understood. For more than a century, the ...Show more
Saga Land: The Island Stories at the Edge of the World by Richard Fidler, Kari Gislason
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A new friendship. An unforgettable journey. A beautiful and bloody history. This is Iceland as you've never read it before ... Broadcaster Richard Fidler and author Kári Gíslason are good friends. They share a deep attachment to the sagas of Iceland - the true stories of the first Viking families who se ...Show more
The Greatest Nobodies of History: Minor Characters from Major Moments by Adrian Bliss
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
History belongs to the heroes. But to get the full story, sometimes you have to ask the side characters. The lives of Leonardo da Vinci, Henry VIII and Queen Victoria fill bookshelves and fascinate scholars all over the world. But little attention is given to the ferret who posed for the renaissance ma ...Show more
A History of Witchcraft: Sorcerers, Heretics & Pagans by Jeffrey B. Russell, Brooks Alexander
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Witchcraft has always been a fluid and intriguing belief system that has enchanted and sometimes terrified humanity. Now in its third edition, A History of Witchcraft has established itself as the authoritative history of witchery and the occult. Beginning with magic in the ancient world, Jeffrey B. Rus ...Show more
The Wager by David Grann
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BALLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION*'The beauty of The Wager unfurls like a great sail... one of the finest nonfiction books I've ever read' Guardian 'The greatest sea story ever told' Spectator'A cracking yarn... Grann's taste for desperate predicaments finds its fullest expre ...Show more
Widows of the Ice - The Women That Scott's Antarctic Expedition Left Behind by Anne Fletcher
$32.95 AUD
Category: History
As Captain Scott lay freezing and starving to death on his return journey from the South Pole, he wrote with a stub of pencil his final words: 'For God's sake look after our people.' Uppermost in his mind were the three women who would now be widows: Kathleen, his own bohemian artist wife; Oriana, the d ...Show more
The English Soul: Faith of a Nation by Peter Ackroyd
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
From celebrated historian and writer Peter Ackroyd, a magisterial portrayal of English Christianity over the centuries. This book portrays the spirit and nature of English Christianity, as it has developed over the last fourteen hundred years. During this time, Christianity has been the predominant ...Show more