Australian History
The Origins of Irish Convict Transportation to New South Wales by Bob Reece
by Alan Atkinson •
Making the Australian Male: Middle-class masculinity 1870–1920 by Martin Crotty
by John Rickard •
Looking for Leadership: Australia in the Howard Years by Donald Horne
by Guy Rundle •
An Indelible Stain?: The question of genocide in Australia’s history by Henry Reynolds
by Tony Barta •
The True Life of Jimmy Governor by Laurie Moore and Stephan Williams
by Peter Pierce •
James Griffin and John Wren
Dear Editor,
Some of your readers will be familiar with the problem. You set aside a few days to get to the National Library to pursue a research project. You obtain the manuscripts, order the material in the Petherick Room, and settle down to uninterrupted industry, when an avuncular bore with too much time on his hands buttonholes you and bangs on about his own project. You do not wish to appear uninterested, yet hope that the windbag will leave you alone and get back to his own table, perhaps even write the book that he rehearses so insistently as the precious minutes tick by.
... (read more)Australian Gothic: the Gothic revival in Australian architecture from the 1840s to the 1950s by Brian Andrews
by Miles Lewis •
Religion and Culture in Asia Pacific: Violence or healing? by Joseph Camilleri
by Michael Kirby •
Lady Spy, Gentleman Explorer by Heather Rossiter and Miles Lewis
by Michael McGirr •