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A Wealth of Women: The Extraordinary Experiences of Ordinary Australian Women from 1788 to Today
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Here is the story of the lives of ordinary Australian women from 1788 to the present. Drawing on the information provided by hundreds of families, as well as ...
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An Octogenarian's Reminiscences
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James Bonwick, a teacher, author, historian and archivist, was born in 1817 at Lingfield, Surrey, the son of a carpenter. Having worked and travelled around the world, James has written his memories ...
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Australian Battlers Remember: The Great Depression
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This is a book about ordinary and renowned Australians telling their stories of struggle and survival during the Great Depression. In 1929, a world depression hit Australia with the ...
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Australian Etiquette 1885: Rules and Usages of the Best Society in the Australasian Colonies
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This comprehensive book covers everything such as: Manners, Introductions, Salutations, Visiting, Dinner Parties, Table Etiquette, Courtship, Weddings, Home Life, the Letter Writer, Funerals, Business, Dress, Pastimes … and much more.
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Black Kettle and Full Moon: Daily Life in a Vanished Australia
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Our Price: AU$27.95
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This is history at its sparkling best – interesting, enlightening, painstaking and objective. If you want to know about prime ministers and politicians, wars and class, economics and ...
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Circus: The Australian Story
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Sparked by his own insatiable curiosity about his own family’s celebrated past in the Australian circus, author Mark St Leon, presents a comprehensive, entertaining and visually stunning history of circus in Australia.
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Etiquette in Australia 1902
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A useful reference book for those researching Australia's social history at the beginning of the 20th century ...
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Life's Been Good: The Children of the Great Depression
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This collection of interviews with people who grew up through the Depression - men and women, urban and rural dwellers, native-born and migrant - portrays the essence of this era. These are the speakers' own stories in their own words ...
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Looking For Australia
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What are the qualities at the heart of Australian culture? How did they arise? What distinguishes us from other nations beyond a fondness for calling each other ‘mate’? And what do such national quirks reveal about our society, our past and our attitudes towards it? Topics covered include the effects of convict origins on national character, what drove the bushrangers to their daring deeds ...
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My Australian Girlhood: Sketches and Impressions of Bush Life
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Written in 1902, 'My Australian Girlhood' gives interesting insights into life in the Australian bush at the time ...
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On Tap: A Cavalcade of Trivia and Tall Stories Celebrating 200 Years of the Australian Pub
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Our Price: AU$9.95
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There has always been a pub--hotel, inn or shanty or what you will--there should always be a pub, and there must always be one'. So wrote Henry Lawson in 1916.
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Past and Present Australian Life, Being for the Most Part Personal Reminiscences
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Our Price: AU$23.50
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The book is mostly personal reminiscences of Zillmann with stories of the first explorers, convicts, blacks, and bush-rangers of Australia and a short historical sketch of the colonies, their progress and present condition. The book was compiled to provide English readers with a detailed description of life in the Australian colonies ...
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Pioneering Days: Thrilling Incidents in the Early Sixties
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Written in 1913 by one of just a few remaining pioneers of Western and North-Western Queensland, George Sutherland has recorded "reminiscenses of the distant past, of men and matters-the dangers and hardships they underwent through droughts and floods, savage blacks, hunger and thirst, &c."
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Radio in Australia
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Our Price: AU$32.95
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Sand in Our Souls: the Beach in Australian History
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Images of 'the beach' pervade Australian popular culture. However the deeper significance of the experience of 'the beach', and its influence on Australian culture generally, have not yet been seriously ...
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Savage or Civilised?: Manners in Colonial Australia
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In colonial Australia manners marked the difference between savagery and civilisation, between vulgarity and refinement. Colonists recoiled in shock and confusion at the customs of Indigenous Australians. Manners mattered, to individuals and to society ...
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Signs of the Times: A Nostalgic Celebration of Australian Advertising Signs
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A unique collection of more than 300 photographs of classic Australian advertising signs. It will appeal to the professional designer, the collector, the sign-lover and the nostalgia-buff alike. A unique addition to every library ...
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Street Kid: A Tale of Trouble and Survival Between the Wars
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Our Price: AU$15.00
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The author grew up in the deprived suburbs of Sydney, where the streets were the playground for many and also an environment where kids found trouble. Young George ...
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The History of Australian Corrections
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Australia's convict era is well-recorded, however the justice and punishment systems that followed, as well as Australia's prison and correctional system have scarcely been documents - until now. Sean O'Toole covers the transportation process, the convict era and ...
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The Little Book of Australia: A Snapshot of Who We Are
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David Dale's book is the definitive reference book about this carefree country. Instead of boasting about what makes Australia great, 'The Little Book of Australia' explains what makes us unique - for better and for worse. Here is everything you need to know about the anthropology of the Australian tribe. Common and uncommon knowledge ...
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The Native-Born: The First White Australians
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'The Native-Born' is the story of the first white people to be born in Australia, the children of convicts, soldiers and free settlers. John Molony's intense curiosity about these people ...
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Traeger: The Pedal Radio Man
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This is a story about the man who gave a voice to the bush with the invention of the miracle pedal radio and enabled John Flynn to create a 'mantle of safety' for the Royal Flying Doctor Service ...
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