Robyn Annear
A City Lost and Found: Whelan the Wrecker's Melbourne by Robyn Annear
by Ian Morrison •
As Eric Hobsbawn points out in his autobiography, Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life (2002), ‘the world needs historians more than ever, especially skeptical ones’. History, however, is not a popular subject in today’s schools. Three of these four books make attempts, variously successful, to engage young readers in a sense of the past. The other is a bizarre compilation of odd details, and could be considered an account of the history of certain sciences; it almost fits into the historical ambit.
... (read more)The Birth of Sydney edited by Tim Flannery & Buried Alive, Sydney 1788-92 by Jack Egan
by Robyn Annear •
Inside the Rocks: The archaeology of a neighbourhood by Grace Karskens
by Robyn Annear •