Women writing history
Women Our History
Re-examining history from a female perspective, this book celebrates the numerous important roles women have played in culture and society that are less often told. Packed full of evocative images, this gloriously...
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Women: Our Story
A celebration of the pivotal but less-recognized roles women have played in culture and society reexamines history from a female perspective, from early matriarchal societies through the Suffragette movement and twentieth-century...
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These Truths: A History of the United States
In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation.
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Paper Emperors: The Rise of Australia’s Newspaper Empires
Reveals who owned Australia's newspapers and how they used them to wield political power. A corporate and political history of Australian newspapers spanning 140 years, this book explains how Australia's media system came to be...
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The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
A gripping account of how the early Christians annihilated the art and teachings of the Classical world from a brilliant young historian.
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A Revolution of Feeling: The Decade that Forged the Modern Mind
In the 1790s, Britain underwent what the politician Edmund Burke called 'the most important of all revolutions ... a revolution in sentiments'. Inspired by the French Revolution, British radicals concocted new political worlds to...
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The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
A new history of ingenuity from the author of The Secret Lives of Colour.
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Ottoman Odyssey: Travels through a Lost Empire: Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award
A journey across the former Ottoman Empire reveals the legacy of its influence on people from the Balkans to the Levant, and the integral diversity threatened amid rising nationalism.
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You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World
For the ten years from 1902, when Australia's suffrage campaigners won the vote for white women, the world looked to this trailblazing young democracy for inspiration. Clare Wright's epic new history tells the story of...
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Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere
One hundred years after women were first granted the vote, award-winning author Jeanette Winterson celebrates how far we have come on the road to equality, and calls on women and men alike to continue the fight. ...
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Lenin on the Train
A gripping account of how Lenin's 1917 train ride to Petrograd ignited the Russian Revolution.
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The Guns of August
Barbara Tuchman's universally acclaimed, Pulitzer prize-winning account of how the first thirty days of battle determined the course of the First World War is to this day revered as the classic account of the conflict's...
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Serving Our Country: Indigenous Australians, War, Defence and Citizenship
After decades of silence, Serving Our Country is the first comprehensive history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's participation in the Australian defence forces. This book reveals the courage, resilience and...
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The Vikings
Far from being just 'wild, barbaric, axe-wielding pirates', the Vikings created complex social institutions, oversaw the coming of Christianity to Scandinavia and made a major impact on European history through trade, travel and...
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The Celts
The Celts are one of the world's most mysterious ancient people. In this compelling account, Alice Roberts takes us on a journey across Europe, uncovering the truth about this engimatic tribe: their origins, their treasure and...
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Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table
Told by a descendant of one of the Community's original families, Oneida is a captivating story that straddles two centuries to reveal how a radical, free-love sect, turning its back on its own ideals, transformed into a purveyor...
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1947: Where Now Begins
As the clock strikes the end of the war, the time begins to turn towards a new age - the one we call now.
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SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
A sweeping, revisionist history of the Roman Empire from one of our foremost classicists.
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Mischka’s War: A European Odyssey of the 1940s
On a winter's day in 1943, 22-year-old Mischka Danos chanced on a terrible sight as he skied through Latvian woods—a pit filled with the bodies of Jews killed by the occupying Germans. The world was full of such atrocities,...
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The House: The Dramatic Story of the Sydney Opera House and the People Who Made It
The extraordinary story of the 20th century's most recognisable building, with new insights into the controversy and drama that surrounded its construction.
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The Unwomanly Face of War
'Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? A whole world is hidden from us. Their war remains unknown . . . I want to write the history of that...
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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets
In this magnificent requiem to a civilization in ruins, the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate reinvents a singular, polyphonic literary form, bringing together the voices of dozens of witnesses to the collapse of the USSR in...
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Behold, America: A History of America First and the American Dream
'The American dream is dead,' Donald Trump said when announcing his candidacy for president in 2015. How would he revive it? By putting 'America First'.The 'American Dream' and 'America First' are two of the most...
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The Catch: The Story of Fishing in Australia
In every coastal town in Australia, there's a bait shop and a boat ramp, and, in garages around the country, fishing rods are strung up waiting for their next outing. Many of us have a special fishing spot, and families pass on...
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Circulating Queerness: Before the Gay and Lesbian Novel
A new history of the queer novel shows its role in constructing gay and lesbian lives.
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The Ancient Greeks: Ten Ways They Shaped the Modern World
They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alexandria. But who were the ancient Greeks? And what was it that enabled them to achieve so much? This title...
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The Butchering Art
In The Butchering Art, historian Lindsey Fitzharris recreates a critical turning point in the history of medicine, when Joseph Lister transformed surgery from a brutal, harrowing practice to the safe, vaunted profession we know...
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The Witches: Salem, 1692
A Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling historian explores one of the great mysteries of American history: the Salem witch trials
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The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka
Ten years in the research and writing, inimitably bold, entertaining and irreverent in style, Clare Wright's The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka is a fitting tribute to the unbiddable women of Ballarat-women who made Eureka a story for...
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