Collection: Adult Non Fiction - History

Australia and the British monarchy have always made for an odd couple: the young, rebellious, egalitarian nation wed to the ancient symbol of colonial power. How have the royals come to be as popular now as they ever were? David Hill tells the story of this relationship from the beginning. Many h...

Australia & the Pacific is a revealing new way of looking at Australian history. Ian Hoskins, award-winning author of Sydney Harbour and Coast, expands his gaze to examine Australia's story in a Pacific context; from our relationship with neighbours Papua New Guinea, Tahiti and New Zealand to our...

ABC Radio Australia has been a constant voice in international broadcasting for more than 80 years. Australia Calling: The ABC Radio Australia Story is an account of Australia's international radio service from its earliest days as an anti-propaganda service in the opening days of WWII. It track...

Australia Remember This Too! is a photographic celebration of nostalgia, particularly for Baby Boomers, 114,000 of whom follow the `Australia Remember When' Facebook page, sharing their photos and memories. Remember Mike Willesee's A Current Affair from the '70s? Fairy bread with hundreds and tho...

When our politicians are too busy playing musical chairs to run the country, our cricketers are doing suspicious things with sandpaper, and a murderous starfish with twenty-one arms roams freely around the Great Barrier Reef it seems about time that we, as a nation, ask a tough question: how the ...

War on the Australian frontier started soon after the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788. The seeds of war were sown when it became clear that the British were invading the continent with plans to occupy the lands of Australia's first people, the Indigenous Australians. Constant violent conflict ...