Members' Books: History

Modernist Disguise. Masquerade in Modern Performance and Visual Culture

by Ron J Popenhagen Edinburgh University Press: edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978—4744-7005-6  Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism, Drama…

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No Longer Silent: Voices of 21st-Century Nurses

Published 2023 by Australian College of Nursing and Ocean Reeve Publishing. ISBN: 978-1-923061-15-6 (hardcover)           …

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GREAT EXPECTATIONS. Emigrant Governesses in Colonial Australia

  ISBN: 9780642279620 Partricia Clarke Jobs were few and poverty was widespread among educated middle-class…

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BOTANIC ENDEAVOUR: the Florilegium Society celebrates the Banks and Solander Collection

ISBN : 9780646816081 Colleen Morris and Brett Summerell, Brett (author.) and Beverley Allen (writer…

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The Reader's Digest in Surry Hills: The design and construction of a heritage building – an architect’s story

John James West Grinstead Publishers; ISBN: 9780975742556 This book describes the design and the creation of a significant…

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FIRST KNOW YOUR ENEMY COMPREHENDING IMPERIAL GERMAN WAR AIMS & DECIPHERING THE ENIGMA OF KULTUR

John A. Moses with Peter Overlack In thesearch for the deeper causes of the ‘War to…

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DISCOVERING VERMEER: A PASSIONATE QUEST

by Helen Topor ISBN 9 780646 985718 In New York the last thing Helen expects…

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MISTRESS OF HER PROFESSION COLONIAL MIDWIVES OF SYDNEY 1788-1901

by  Lesley Potter Anchor Books (August 2017) ISBN 9780648061601 Dr Lesley Potter’s book weaves the…

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SCORCHED EARTH. Australia’s secret plan for total war under Japanese invasion in World War II

Sue Rosen Allen & Unwin (June 2017) ISBN  9781925575149 In 1942 the threat of Japanese…

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'A passion for exploring new countries' MATTHEW FLINDERS & GEORGE BASS

Josephine Bastian published by Australian Scholarly Publications ISBN  9781925333725 Matthew Flinders and George Bass were…

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DIETRICH BONHOEFFER: BEING THERE FOR OTHERS

by John Moses St Laurence Tract No.9, St Laurence Press ISBN: 978-0-9924370-1-5 (pbk)  Dietrich…

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PICTORIAL HISTORY: CAMDEN & DISTRICT

By Ian Willis ISBN: 978-0-9876067-9-2 (pbk) KIngsclear Books Beginning with the search for cattle that had…

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THE LUCK OF THE IRISH

Babette Smith ISBN: 9781742378121
ISBN-10: 1742378129; Allen & Unwin; paperback, 2014. All 250 Irish convicts survived…

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The Man Who Hunted Whales: A tale of Kangaroo Island and a doomed ship

ISBN 9780646553009 Awoonga, 2011 In 1836, Captain Robert Clark Morgan landed the first official settlers…

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Nazi Dreamtime: Australian Enthusiasts for Hitler's Germany

ISBN: 978 1 92187542 7 Australian Scholarly Publishing (Melbourne), 2012. The Nazi Dreamtime tells the…

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Cook's Hill Life Saving & Surf Club. The First Hundred Years

ISBN: 978-1-921596-64-3 Brolga Publishing, Melbourne, 2011. The drama of this story comes from numerous sources…

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From Antarctica to the Gold Rushes in the wake of the Erebus

ISBN: 978-9215969-2-6 Brolga Publishing, Melbourne, 2011. The story of Alexander Smith (1812-1872) of the British…

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The Reluctant Revolutionary: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Collision with Prusso-German History

ISBN 978-1-84545-531-6 Berghahn Books, New York, 2009 Investigates the Lutheran theologian's grounds for agitating for…

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