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  • $35.00 1788: Brutal Truth of the First Fleet
    Book Never before or since has there been an experiment quite as bold as this. Eleven of the tiniest ships sailed for eight months over the roughest of seas, carrying fifteen hundred people, food for two years and all the...
  • $14.50 Aborigines Their Present Condition
    CD record Written by Mr J R B Love, a son of the manse and student from South Australia, this reports on "two years of travel and investigation into the condition of the natives of unfrequented regions". It covers tribes in...
  • $19.50 Active Service with Australia in the Middle East
    CD record "An illustrated notebook on the life of Australians in the MiddleEastern theatre of war" is how the editors describe this book on theAustralian Imperial Force during 1941. Almost all of the reports arefrom men on...
  • $47.50 All-Australia Memorial: Victoria
    CD record During and following the 1914-18 war a number of editions of All-Australia Memorial were published for three states - New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria. As far as can be ascertained the Victorian...
  • $23.50 Anzac Book 1916
    CD record "This book of Anzac was produced in the lines at Anzac on Gallipoli in the closing weeks of 1915. Practically every word in it was written and every line drawn beneath the shelter of a waterproof sheet or of a...
  • $29.50 ANZAC Memorial
    CD record The Anzac Memorial is a comprehensive compilation of names and primary source material from the First World War and is compiled as a memorial to the Anzacs who fought and died in the Great War. This third edition...
  • $10.00 Arrows of Hope: Selected convict stories
    Book Selected convict stories [over 80] 167 pages with index List of Names Book 1 ANLEZARK Thomas Ainsworth--AYRES William--BARTON George--BECKLEY Ann-- BLACKALL Samuel--BRACKLEY John--BROOKS--Thomas--BULL Elizabeth--BURKE...
  • $15.00 Arrows of Hope: Selected convict stories vol.2
    Book 277 pages of select convict stories with index   List of Names Book 2 ADAMSON Ann--ANKIN George--ANTHONY Henry--ASHCROFT John--ATWELL William--BENNETT James--BOWLES Justice--BRAXTON George--BRENNAN...
  • $19.50 As You Were 1946
    CD record This is "the first of a new series of post-war Service volumes which will provide a contemporary record of developments in the Australian Navy, Army, and Air Force". The As You Were series completed the series of...
  • $19.50 As You Were 1947
    CD record As You Were: A cavalcade of events with the Australian Services from 1788 to 1947, "adds another volume to the story of the Australian Navy, Army and Air Force which was continued in As You Were 1946 from the...
  • $19.50 As You Were 1948
    CD record As You Were: with the Australian Services at Home and Overseas from 1788 to 1948 is the third volume of the As You Were series published by the Australian War Memorial. The fifthy-nine stories are all contributed...
  • $19.50 As You Were 1949
    CD record As You Were 1949 continues the service rendered by its predecessors. Its aim is to recall and to record the courage and humour, the boredom and the achievements, the travel and adventure, deeds and misdeeds, and,...
  • $19.50 As You Were 1950
    CD record As You Were 1950 - fifth in its line - has been made possible by the collaboration of the ex-Service men and women who have supplied the stories, articles, verse and drawings which appear in it. Whilst many...
  • $23.50 Aussie: The Australian Soldiers' Magazine
    CD record 'Aussie' was a popular Australian soldiers magazine during and after World War 1. The magazine had its origins in 1914 under a different name and was transformed into 'Aussie' in 1918. This compilation covers...
  • $125.00 Australasian Genealogical Computer Index [AGCI] Vol1
    CD record This CD provides the most comprehensive name index to Australasian source material ever published - over 3.9 million names drawn from the collections of 42 Australian & New Zealand family history societies...
  • $85.00 Australasian Genealogical Computer Index [AGCI] Vol2
    CD record This second volume of AGCI contains 83,000 personal names indexed from NSW Government Gazette from its commencement in 1832 until the end of 1863. The Gazette is a major published resource for this important...
  • $75.00 Australasian Genealogical Computer Index [AGCI] Vol3
    CD record AUSTRALASIAN GENEALOGICAL COMPUTER INDEX - AGCI VOL.3 Society of Australian Genealogists This CD contains over 2.5 million names indexed from the collections of the SAG as well as other family history societies...
  • $23.50 Australasian Medical Directory and Handbook 1900
    CD record Ludwig Bruck was a medical practitioner and medical journalist as well as the compiler of the first five editions of the Australasian Medical Directory and Hand book between 1883 an 1900. The Australasian Medical...
  • $29.50 Australia and New Zealand
    CD record Anthony Trollope, the famous English novelist whose books illuminate virtually every aspect of late nineteenth century England also wrote travel books. In 1873 he published "Australia and New Zealand". This book...
  • $27.50 Australia From a Woman's Point of View
    CD record Australia From a Woman’s Point of View is a humourous book, in light of today's society, by the very conservative, Miss Jessie Ackermann, a missionary for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, who visited...
  • $40.00 Australia Through Women's Eyes
    Book Throughout the nineteenth century British women as diverse as Louisa Meredith, Marianne North and Beatrice Webb travelled to the Australian colonies and wrote about the emerging white civilisation they found there. Some...
  • $50.00 Australia's Birthstain
    Book Why is it that Australians are still misled by myths about their convict heritage? Why are so many family historians surprised to find a convict ancestor in their family trees? Why did an entire society collude to...
  • $20.00 Australia's Convict Past
    Book Robert Coupe On 26 January 1788, a fleet of eleven ships sailed into Port Jackson. Among the 1500 people on board were about 750 British and Irish Convicts - men and women who were being punished for their crimes by...
  • $29.50 Australia's Fighting Sons of the Empire: New South Wales and Queensland
    CD record This very rare record of many who fought in the Great War (1914-18) is now offered as a fully searchable facsimile of the original. Here is the New South Wales and Queensland edition of Australia’s Fighting...
  • $27.50 Australia's Fighting Sons of the Empire: Western Australia
    CD record Australia's Fighting Sons is a compilation of biographies and photos of many Australian soldiers who fought in world war one, although obviously an incomplete list, this book includes many soldiers each with...
  • $45.00 Australia: Gazetteer 1848
    CD record Flikker books are electronic copies of books and other publications, published on CD Compiled from 1841, the Gazetteer has a comprehensive list of places with a brief description of each one. Several maps are...
  • $27.50 Australia: Its Rise, Progress and Present Condition
    CD record Written by William Westgarth in 1861, this volume is described as consisting chiefly of the articles Australasia and Australia of the 'Encyclopaedia Britannica'. These articles have been revised or rewritten, so as...
  • $23.50 Australian Almanac 1833 (O'Shaughnessey)
    CD record Almanacs are a valuable resource for local, family and social historians as well as for researchers in other fields of Australian history. The 1833 edition of the Australian Almanac was one that almost didn't come...
  • $23.50 Australian Almanac 1852 - Ford
    CD record Almanacs are a valuable resource for local, family and social historians as well as for researchers in other fields of Australian history. This 'Ford's Australian Almanac' which is largely about New South Wales,...
  • $23.50 Australian Almanac 1853 - Ford
    CD record Almanacs are a valuable resource for local, family and social historians as well as for researchers in other fields of Australian history. This 'Ford's Australian Almanac' which is largely about New South Wales,...
  • $23.50 Australian Almanac 1857 (Cox and Co)
    CD record Almanacs are a valuable resource for local, family and social historians as well as for researchers in other fields of Australian history. Published by Cox & Co. it is titled 'Australian', but it is primarily...
  • $27.50 Australian Almanac 1859 (Waugh)
    CD record Almanacs are a valuable resource for local, family and social historians as well as for researchers in other fields of Australian history. This volume is divided into two sections, the first containing information...
  • $27.50 Australian Almanac 1861 (Waugh)
    CD record Almanacs are a valuable resource for local, family and social historians as well as for researchers in other fields of Australian history. This volume is divided into two sections, the first containing information...
  • $27.50 Australian Almanac 1866 (Fryer)
    CD record Almanacs are a valuable resource for local, family and social historians as well as for researchers in other fields of Australian history. This volume contains information on government departments, laws, banks,...
  • $27.50 Australian Almanac 1869 (Fryer)
    CD record Almanacs are a valuable resource for local, family and social historians as well as for researchers in other fields of Australian history. This volume contains information on government departments, laws, banks,...
  • $27.50 Australian Almanac 1873 (Ferguson)
    CD record Almanacs are a valuable resource for local, family and social historians as well as for researchers in other fields of Australian history. This volume contains information on government departments, laws, banks,...
  • $27.50 Australian Almanac and Directory 1835 (O'Shaughnessey)
    CD record Almanacs are a valuable resource for local, family and social historians as well as for researchers in other fields of Australian history. This Australian Almanac & Directory compiled by O'Shaugnessey, contains...
  • $23.50 Australian Almanack 1831 (Mansfield)
    CD record Almanacs are a valuable resource for local, family and social historians as well as for researchers in other fields of Australian history. The 1831 edition of the Australian Almanac published by Ralph Mansfield was...
  • $69.50 Australian Baillieres Gazetteers Set
    CD record Bailliere's Gazetteers were compiled for most colonies in Australia during the 19th century. This set includes those for New South Wales 1870 Queensland 1876 South Australia 1866 Tasmania 1877 Victoria 1879 Click...
  • $29.50 Australian Blue Book
    CD record Prepared in Australia, published in Australia and dedicated to Australian people and their needs The Australian Blue Book is the first publication of its kind in Australia in that it is an all-Australian reference...
  • $23.50 Australian Contingent: History of Patriotic Movement in New South Wales
    CD record The full title of this publications is: 'The Australian Contingent: A History of the Patriotic Movement in New South Wales and an Account of the Despatch of Troops to the Assistance of the Imperial Forces in the...
  • $29.50 Australian Dictionary of Dates and Men of the Time
    CD record Truly a wealth of information is contained in this 570 page book which was originally published in 1879. The 'Men of the Time' part of this book is a listing of biographies of men of note with connections to...
  • $29.50 Australian Etiquette 1885: Rules and Usages of the Best Society in the Australasian Colonies
    CD record Etiquette, one aspect of decorum, is a code that governs the expectations of social behaviour, according to the contemporary conventional norm within a society, social class, or group. In Britain, the word...
  • $27.50 Australian Handbook 1873
    CD record Covering New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, West Australia, Tasmania, Queensland, New Zealand, and Fiji Islands, the fourth issue of the Australian Handbook is a guide with all kinds of interesting and...
  • $29.50 Australian Handbook 1875
    CD record This publication covers the whole Australian region. It is mainly concerned with giving an oversight of each Australian colony and is aimed more at the commercial sector. It has very useful histories of each...
  • $29.50 Australian Handbook 1876
    CD record This publication covers the whole Australian region. It is mainly concerned with giving an oversight of each Australian colony and is aimed more at the commercial sector. It has very useful histories of each...
  • $29.50 Australian Handbook 1877
    CD record [1 CD (721 pages)]Covering New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, West Australia, Tasmania, Queensland, New Zealand, and Fiji Islands, the eighth issue of the 'Australian Handbook and Almanac and Shippers and...
  • $29.50 Australian Handbook 1878
    CD record [1 CD (709 pages)]Covering New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, West Australia, Tasmania, Queensland, New Zealand, and Fiji Islands, the eighth issue of the 'Australian Handbook and Almanac and Shippers and...
  • $29.50 Australian Handbook 1879
    CD record Covering New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, West Australia, Tasmania, Queensland, New Zealand, and Fiji Islands, the 'Australian Handbook and Almanac and Shippers and Importers Directory for 1879', the...
  • $34.50 Australian Handbook 1881
    CD record [1 CD (853 pages)] Covering New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, West Australia, Tasmania, Queensland, New Zealand, and Fiji Islands, the 'Australian Handbook and Almanac and Shippers and Importers...
  • $34.50 Australian Handbook 1882
    CD record Covering New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, West Australia, Tasmania, Queensland, New Zealand, and Fiji Islands, the 'Australian Handbook and Almanac and Shippers and Importers Directory for 1882', the...
  • $39.50 Australian Handbook 1884
    CD record [1 CD (1148 pages)] Covering New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, West Australia, Tasmania, Queensland, New Zealand, and Fiji Islands, the 'Australian Handbook and Almanac and Shippers and Importers...
  • $39.50 Australian Handbook 1885
    CD record [1 CD (1152 pages)] Covering New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, West Australia, Tasmania, Queensland, New Zealand, and Fiji Islands, the 'Australian Handbook and Almanac and Shippers and Importers...
  • $39.50 Australian Handbook 1886
    CD record [1 CD (1146 pages)] Covering New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, West Australia, Tasmania, Queensland, New Zealand, and Fiji Islands, the Australian Handbook and Almanac and Shippers and Importers...
  • $39.50 Australian Handbook 1887
    CD record [1 CD - (1159 pages)] Covering New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, West Australia, Tasmania, Queensland, New Zealand, and Fiji Islands, the Australian Handbook and Almanac and Shippers and Importers...
  • $34.50 Australian Handbook 1889
    CD record Covering New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, West Australia, Fiji, New Guinea and New Zealand, the 'Australian Handbook' is a guide with all kinds of interesting...
  • $34.50 Australian Handbook 1900
    CD record The publication covers the whole Australian region. It is mainly concerned with giving an oversight of each Australian colony and is aimed more at the commercial sector. It has very useful potted histories and maps...
  • $34.50 Australian Handbook 1904
    CD record Incorporating New Zealand; Fiji and New Guinea. This CD covers well over 3000 towns and villages throughout Australia and New Zealand in nearly 300 pages Altogether, 1012 pages packed with all kinds of useful an...
  • $47.50 Australian Lutheran 1913-20
    CD record Now available for the first time on CD. 'The Australian Lutheran' was the nationwide magazine for the Australian Lutheran churches from 1913-1966. It gives an amazing insight into the issues of the day and the...
  • $47.50 Australian Lutheran 1921-30
    CD record Now Available for the first time on CD. The Australian Lutheran was the nation wide magazine for the Australian Lutheran churches from 1913-1966. It contains a huge amount of valuable and interesting information...
  • $47.50 Australian Lutheran 1931-40
    CD record The Australian Lutheran was the nation wide magazine for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Australia (ELCA) from 1913-1966. It contains a huge amount of valuable and interesting information for historians and...
  • $47.50 Australian Lutheran 1941-1950
    CD record The Australian Lutheran, the nationwide magazine for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Australia (ELCA), was produced from 1913-1966. These CDs contain issues of the magazine from 1941-1950. They give amazing...
  • $47.50 Australian Lutheran 1951-1960
    CD record Now available for the first time on CD. The Australian Lutheran, the nationwide magazine for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Australia (ELCA) was published from 1913 to 1966. It gives an amazing insight into the...
  • $47.50 Australian Lutheran 1961-1966
    CD record Now available for the first time on CD, the Australian Lutheran was the nationwide magazine for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Australia (ELCA) from 1913 to 1966. It gives an amazing insight into the issues of...
  • $199.50 Australian Lutheran Set 1913-1966
    CD record The complete Australian Lutheran magazine from the first issue in 1913 through to the last in 1966 is now available and fully searchable. The Australian Lutheran was the nationwide magazine for the Evangelical...
  • $23.50 Australian Medical Directory and Handbook 1883
    CD record Ludwig Bruck was a medical practitioner and medical journalist as well as the compiler of the first five editions of the Australasian Medical Directory and Hand-book between 1883 an 1900. The Australasian Medical...
  • $23.50 Australian Medical Directory and Handbook 1886
    CD record Ludwig Bruck was a medical practitioner and medical journalist as well as the compiler of the first five editions of the Australasian Medical Directory and Hand-book between 1883 an 1900. The Australasian...
  • $23.50 Australian Medical Directory and Handbook 1892
    CD record Ludwig Bruck was a medical practitioner and medical journalist as well as the compiler of the first five editions of the Australasian Medical Directory and Hand-book between 1883 an 1900. The Australasian Medical...
  • $23.50 Australian Medical Directory and Handbook 1896
    CD record Ludwig Bruck was a medical practitioner and medical journalist as well as the compiler of the first five editions of the Australasian Medical Directory and Hand-book between 1883 an 1900. The Australasian Medical...
  • $69.60 Australian Men of Mark 1889
    CD record Australian Men of Mark was produced in two large volumes in 1888/1889. It is a wonderful centennial biographical record of thousands of men of the time. This digital edition is unique and valuable in that it...
  • $30.00 Australian Migrant Ships 1946-1977
    Book Peter Plowman's book 'Emigrant Ships to Luxury Liners' was published in 1992, and sold steadily until 2004, when supplies were exhausted. Rather than reprint that book, he decided to produce a new book that concentrated...
  • $27.50 Australian Pastoral Directory 1913
    CD record The Australian Pastoral Directory 1923 lists approximately 231 pages of stockowners in all States of Australia. There is also a separate index for both New South Wales and Queensland by Station, a list of prominent...
  • $27.50 Australian Pastoral Directory 1925
    CD record The Australian Pastoral Directory 1925 lists approximately 24,000 stockowners in all States of Australia. There is also a separate index for New South Wales and Queensland by Station, a list of prominent stock...
  • $27.50 Australian Pastoral Directory 1931
    CD record The Australian Pastoral Directory 1931 lists stockowners in all states of Australia - in over 400 pages. There is also a separate index for both New South Wales and Queensland by station, a list of prominent stock...
  • $29.50 Australian Pastoral Directory 1954
    CD record In 1954 there were tens of thousands of stockowners throughout Australia. This 600 page volume lists most of them. There are separate indexes for both New South Wales and Queensland by station, as well as lists of...
  • $69.50 Australian Pastoral Directory Compendium 2
    CD record If you are researching ancestors who were stockowners in Australia, the Pastoral Directories are a great resource. This compendium contains facsimiles of the years 1913, 1923, 1925, 1931, and 1954. Australian...
  • $27.50 Australian Pioneers and Reminicences
    CD record Australian Pioneers and Reminiscences by Nehemiah Bartley, is an important work with
  • $29.50 Australian Portrait Gallery and Memoirs of Representative Colonial Men
    CD record This impressive book contains biographies of twenty-four prominent men in Australia’s history. Each biography is written with warmth and detail and is accompanied by a sketch portrait. This book also contains...
  • $39.50 Australian Representative Men
    CD record This classic work was first issued in 1887 with 130 individual biographies of prominent Australians. It has since been released at least twice in 'improved' versions. This CD contains three known variants of it...
  • $19.50 Australian Soldiers' Pocket Book 9th edition
    CD record The 'Australian Soldier’s Pocket Book' was published in 1943 during the Second World War. This small pocket-sized book could be carried everywhere and provided Australian soldiers with a wide range of useful...
  • $19.50 Australian War Photographs- A Pictorial Record From November 1917 To The End Of The War
    CD record The Australian War Photographs, containing photographs from the end of the year 1917 to the end of the Great War, was edited by Captain Geo H. Wilkins, M. C. The book contains over 150 graphic pictures which...
  • $49.50 Australians and Other Expatriates in Papua New Guinea 1888-1975
    CD record Australians and Other Expatriates in Papua New Guinea 1888-1975 (prev published as Some Expatriates of Papua New Guinea) An invaluable resource covering various records of Australians, Germans, Pacific Islanders...
  • $119.50 Baptist Missionary Record - Complete Set
    CD record This set consists of: Baptist Missionary Record: Our BondThis periodical covers the years 1889-1941 gives a review of the work of Baptist missionaries in the Bengal region. The run is incomplete for some years,...
  • $39.50 Baptist Missionary Record - Our Bond
    CD record This periodical covers the years 1889-1941 gives a review of the work of Baptist missionaries in the Bengal region. The run is incomplete for some years, but does include a number of unpublished editions Users will...
  • $47.50 Baptist Missionary Record - Our Indian Field
    CD record The periodical covers the years 1915-1949 and gives a review of the work of Baptist missionaries in India. The material includes regular reports from each mission station. The following will be found in the...
  • $79.50 Baptist Missionary Record - Our Vision
    CD record This periodical covers the years 1950 to 2007 and gives a review of the work of Baptist missionaries. The material includes regular reports from each mission station. The following will be found in the 9 CD...
  • $5.00 Bibliography of the Convict Transports
    Book There were 1040 she which carried convicts, agricultural land rights activists, capital offenders, criminals, exiles, Luddite machine breakers, military deserters and mutineers, political detainees, pirates, patriots...
  • $29.50 Births in Australia 1788-1828
    CD record Births in Australia 1788-1828 is a comprehensive index of 27,500 of the children born and baptised in the various Australian colonies and settlements in the era. A few Maori and Aboriginal children are included...
  • $29.50 Blairs Cyclopedia of Australasia
    CD record Blairs Cyclopedia of Australasia is also titled "Dictionary of facts, events, dates, persons and places connected with the discovery, exploration and progress of the British Dominions in the south from the earliest...
  • $10.00 Boer War Guide (NAA Guide 9)
    Book Australians and the War in South Africa, 1899-1902 About this guide Between 1899 and 1902 more than 10,000 Australian soldiers sailed for South Africa to support British troops engaged in the war against the Boer...
  • $29.50 Bound for South Australia: Births and deaths on government-assisted immigrant ships 1848-1885
    CD record A richly illustrated CD which brings, for the first time, a complete listing of 323 voyages to South Australia between 1848 and 1885 under the auspices of the South Australian Government. Information for each...
  • $49.00 British Army in Australia 1788-1870
    CD record The British Army in Australia 1788 - 1870 is a comprehensive index listing 34,000 British soldiers and marines who served in the Australian Colonies between 1788 - 1870. Some troops and marines may have been...
  • $25.00 Caledonia Australis: Scottish Highlanders on the Frontier of Australia
  • $35.00 Cargo of Women
    Book Babette Smith A Cargo of Women traces the chequered story of one hundred women transported together in 1829 on the ship Princess Royal. Caught in an England convulsed by change, they became the unwitting and unwilling...
  • $10.00 Chinese Immigrants and Chinese Australian in New South Wales (NAA Guide 1)
    Book Julie Stacker and Peri Stewart This guide covers the numerous records held in our Sydney office relating to Chinese migration and settlement in NSW, from pre-Federation to 1966. It provides a valuable research tool for...
  • $10.00 Chinese-Australian Journeys
    Book Records on Travel, Migration and Settlement, 1860-1975 About this guide By the mid-nineteenth century many thousands of Chinese were living in the Australian colonies. Adaptable and hardworking, they and other...
  • $23.50 Christlicher Volks-Kalendar 1917
    CD record The Christlicher Volks-Kalendar is a German Calendar book for the year 1917. The entire book is in German. As well as being a German Calendar book for the year 1917, this publication contains over 200 pages of...
  • $10.00 Citizenship In Australia: a guide to Commonwealth Government Records
    Book About this Guide: This guide introduces readers to Commonwealth government records on citizenship held by the National Archives of Australia and provides valuable advice to the researcher interested in this topic. The...
  • $29.50 Colonial Facts and Fictions
    CD record [1 CD (332 pages)]Written by Mark Kershaw in 1886, this book is both a light-hearted and more serious look at life in Australia and New Zealand. He covers a wide range of topics - Adventures with a boomerang, A...
  • $27.50 Commonwealth Public Service list 1904
    CD record This List of Permanent Officers of the Commonwealth Public Service as published June 1904 gives details of over 13,000 people employed throughout Australia. It is arranged by department, and by state where...
  • $35.00 Complete book of Great Australian Women: Thirty-six women who changed the course of Australia
    Book Stories of dedicated and resourceful women who demanded something different from the restricted lives of their mothers and grandmothers. The achievements of Australian women have long been overshadowed by the deeds of...
  • $25.00 Convict Lives: women at Cascades Female Factory
    Book This book by members of the Female Factory Research Group tells the stories of 33 fascinating women. Cascades Female Factory in Van Diemen's Land opened in 1828 and closed as a gaol in 1877. Female convicts, and some...
  • $27.00 Convict records in Australia
    Book This book is designed to assist researchers understand the vast amount of material and records available for convict research in Australia. It highlights what records are available and what they contain. It is arranged...
  • $39.00 Convict Ships 1788-1868
    CD record 2004 edition First published in 1959, this book has been accepted by historians and scholars as the standard work on its subject. Contents: Preface to Australian Edition Preface to First Edition Illustrations...
  • $35.00 Convict women
    Book Who were the female convicts? What kinds of lives did they lead in a new society half a world away from home? 'Convict Women' looks beyond the conventional images to draw a new and often surprising picture of convict...
  • $29.50 Cook's Interstate Business Directory 1937
    CD record Cook's Interstate Business Directory contains seperate business directories for Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia in 1937, bound in one book. Each directory is...
  • $14.50 Corps of Royal Australian Engineers in the Second World War 1939-45
    CD record "The rapid tempo of war had led to an increasing speed in the development of equipment. It is probably true that such developments moved at a more rapid rate during the recent war than ever before in the annals...
  • $27.50 Dead Heart of Australia
    CD record Dead Heart of Australia' was written by J. W. Gregory, a Professor of Geology, for the purpose of studying the interior of South-eastern Australia and the conditions of Lake Eyre. It contains many pictures of...
  • $55.00 Death or Liberty: the convicts of the Britannia, Ireland to Botany Bay 1797
    Book Death would have been a better option than life on board the 1797 convict ship Britannia. Its 200 or so convicts had faced a sadistic captain, stilfvation rations and savage punishments during their long journey from...
  • $23.50 Descriptive Australia and Federal Guide 1890
    CD record This book was written for the purpose of providing useful, practical and interesting facts and other information to the general Australian public as well as to tourists and visitors to Australia. Published in...
  • $29.50 Dictionary of Australasian Biography
    CD record 'The Dictionary of Australasian Biography' written by Philip Mennell in 1892, includes almost 2000 concise biographies of Australasian colonialists from 1855-1892 in over 540 pages. It gives information on...
  • $20.00 Dictionary of Australasian Biography 1892
    CD record Over 500pp of biographies and 18pp of advertisements. Use with Acrobat Reader. Comprising notices of eminent colonists from the inauguration of responsible government, down to the present time. (1855 - 1892)...
  • $14.50 Dictionary of Australian Biography
    CD record The Dictionary of Australian Biography, by Percival Serle in 1949 includes 1030 concise biographies of Australians. These were men and women closely connected with Australia who died before the end of 1942. The...
  • $25.00 digging for Diggers: A Guide to researching an Australian soldier of the Great War, 1914-1918
    Book Graeme Hosken This books gives a detailed description of the steps necessary to research the military history of any Australian WW1 Digger. To illustrate the research process, the author uses the specific record of a...
  • $30.00 Discovering the Great South Land
    Book This is the story of the evolution of the sailing ships that gradually linked Australia to Europe. This book explains how the navigational problems of Australia's huge coastline were conquered by ships that were at the...
  • $50.00 Doctors at Sea: Emigrant voyages to colonial Australia
    Book As well as their medical and supervisory duties, especially in relation to children and nursing mothers, we see doctors presiding over courts of law on board as they tried wayward emigrants whose punishment was meted...
  • $15.00 Documenting a Nation: Australian Archives - the first fifty years
    Book Archives! The word conjures up images of gloomy corridors, of musty stacks of paper, unwanted and unused. In this account, Hilary Golder shows a very different picture of Australia's efforts to capture its history...
  • $150.00 Early Australian Electoral Rolls Vol.1.NSW 1903, Tas 1903, WA 1903
    CD record A Searchable transcription of the earliest complete surviving electoral roll available on microform in each state. Contains the names of both men and women voters. The nearest Australia has to a database beginning...
  • $40.00 Emigrants and Expats
    Book It is estimated that over seventeen million people have emigrated from Great Britain & Ireland since the seventeenth century. Sometimes the decision was voluntary, to seek political or religious freedom, the need to...
  • $7.50 Etiquette in Australia 1902
    CD record Etiquette is a little-used word in today's society. This word, and all it entails, has been largely lost over time. Etiquette in Australia, which was produced over 100 years ago, explains the basics of etiquette...
  • $27.50 Excursions in New South Wales, Western Australia and Van Dieman's Land 1830-1833
    CD record The Excursions in New South Wales, Western Australia and Van Diemans Land was written by Lieut. Breton, R. N. It was published to give people who were considering settling in the Australian colonies a realistic...
  • $7.50 Exploring Expedition Through the Interior of Australia 1844
    CD record In 1844 Ludwig Leichardt led his first expedition to Port Essington in the Northern Territory. He departed from Darling Downs in Queensland in October and reaching his destination in December 1845. The party...
  • $35.00 Fair Game
    Book Young women as fair game? In 1832, the British government sent 400 young single women to Sydney and Hobart to balance the male-dominated societies. The two ships were thr Red Rover from Cork and the Princess Royal...
  • $33.00 Fatal Shore
    Book In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British Government sent a fleet to colonize Australia. An epic description of the brutal transportation of men, women and children out of Georgian...
  • $35.00 Fools Gold
    Book A panoramic history of gold-seeking myths and legends in Australia The history of gold exploration in Australia is as rich and fraught as the landscape itself. It is littered with tales of lost reefs, caves of gold and...
  • $29.50 Founders of Australia and their Descendants
    CD record Founders of Australia is two books in one volume - a valuable account of exploration and foundation of European settlement in Australia, together with a fine record of many pioneering families. Book 1 - The Story...
  • $33.00 France and Botany Bay: the lure of a penal colony
  • $17.50 Free Settlers of Australia 1788-1828 (CD)
    CD record A consolidated list of 10,000 people who arrived in Australia as free settlers or were returned ex-convicts. Soldiers and sailors who did not settle in Australia are not mentioned. They are embraced by a seperate...
  • $37.00 Freedom on the Fatal Shore
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  • $55.00 French Consul's wife: Memoirs of Celeste de Chabrillan in goldrush Australia
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  • $14.50 From the Australian Front 1917
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  • $50.00 Gallipoli: The Fatal Shore
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  • $29.50 Geographical Dictionary or Gazetteer of the Australian Colonies 1848
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  • $10.00 Good British Stock: child and youth migration to Australia
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  • $30.00 Guide to Military History on Internet
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  • $27.50 Handbook to Australasia 1859
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  • $35.00 Helen Hart: Founder of Women's Suffrage in Australasia
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  • $33.00 Heroic Australian Women in War: Astonishing tales of bravery from Gallipoli to Kokoda
    Book Softcover; 296pp; Endnotes and Index. Author: Susanna De Vries Nancy Wake remarked: 'The exploits of Australia's women at war have been sadly neglected for years.' Yet women have suffered, strengthened and defied fear...
  • $45.00 Hidden Thread Huguenot Families in Australia
    Book The Huguenots, the Protestants of France, have a long history of warfare, persecution and exile. Between 1550 and 1750 thousands of them fled France and went to any country which would allow them religious freedom and...
  • $29.50 Historical Records of Australia series 1 vol 18
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  • $29.50 Historical Records of Australia series 1 volume 17
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  • $29.50 Historical Records of Australia series 1 volume 7
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  • $29.50 Historical Records of Australia series 1 volume 8
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  • $29.50 Historical Records of Australia series 1 volume 9
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  • $249.50 Historical Records of Australia Series 1 Volumes 1-26 Set
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  • $29.50 History of Australasia
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  • $19.50 History of the 10th Battalion AIF
    CD record [1 CD (112 pages)] Written by Arthur Limb in 1919, this book gives a brief history of the 10th Battalion of the AIF - 'South Australia’s quota to the Australian Expeditionary Force'. The Battalion was...
  • $19.50 HMAS
    CD record This is the first of a series of four books published by the AustralianWar Memorial on the Royal Australian Navy during World War II. Writtenand prepared by serving personnel of the RAN in 1942, it presents...
  • $19.50 HMAS Mk III
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  • $19.50 HMS Buffalo
    CD record The year 2006 marks 170 years since the founding of South Australia in 1836, and the 28th of December is the anniversary of the arrival of HMS Buffalo under the command of the first governor, Captain John...
  • $15.00 How Did They Get Here?
    Book This modern, easy to use book has been designed to help you find arrival records for members of your family who came to Australia after 1924. The latest Internet resources are included with details on how to use them...
  • $16.50 Illustrated Australian News Oct 1870-Jan 1872 BD M notices
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  • $15.00 Index to Colonial Convict Movements 1827 to 1853
    CD record This index concerns convict movements in the Colony of New South Wales (encompassing what is now New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania and Victoria) of nearly 10,000 convicts. These records involve, for the time...
  • $27.50 Irish in Australia
    CD record James Hogan was born in Ireland in 1855, and emigrated with his parents to Australia in 1856. He spent his his early life growing up in Victoria and became a teacher, journalist, author and politician. Hogan...
  • $55.00 Irish Vanguard
    Book Ireland, 1790.  Crime is escalating, as hundreds of vagrants stroll the streets prostituting themselves and robbing others.  Those already in gaol were digging their way out through the sewers, as others did...
  • $23.50 John's Notable Australians 1906
    CD record The first book of its kind to be issued since Federation. It is the forerunner of what became Australian Who's Who - effectively the first edition of this. Arranged alphabetically apart from a special section...
  • $27.50 Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
    CD record Sir Thomas Livingston Mitchell was one of the most controversial and enigmatic of Australian explorers. Born in Scotland in 1792, he arrived in Sydney in 1827, having accepted the position of Assistant...
  • $19.50 Jungle Warfare With the Australian Army in the South West Pacific
    CD record Jungle Warfare is the fourth book in the series on the Australian Armyduring World War II. It tells the story of the events in the jungle,mountains and swamps of New Guinea. Again the stories were penned bythose...
  • $27.50 Kennedy's Colonial Travel
    CD record A Narrative of 4 Year's Tour Through Australia, New Zealand and Canada. David Kennedy, a member of the Kennedy Family of Scottish Vocalists, made detailed observations of the places, people and social customs of...
  • $19.50 Khaki and Green
    CD record Khaki and Green was entirely written by serving members of the Australian Army - acknowledged only by their service number. Apart from more general stories, this book includes "reports of the two major campaigns...
  • $19.50 Landsborough's Expedition in Search of Burke and Wills
    CD record From Brisbane to the Gulf of Carpentaria, Landsborough's expedition was the fourth expedition to go out in search of Burke and Willls. 'Landsborough's Expedition in Search of Burke and Wills', was written for the...
  • $27.50 Life and Progress in Australasia
    CD record [1 CD (498 pages)]Written in 1898 by Michael Davitt, while MP for South Mayo following a seven month journey through the Australasian colonies. Australasia is, in fact, an industrial empire of unfederated Labour...
  • $55.00 Log of Logs v.2
    Book This is the second volume in the series. A Catalogue of Logs, Journals, Shipboard Diaries, Letters, and all forms of voyage narratives, 1788 - 1993, for Australian and New Zealand and surrounding oceans. NOTE: Volume...
  • $26.50 Long farewell
    Book During the nineteenth century more than a million people, many of whom had never ventured beyond their homes in Britain, sailed to the new colonies of Australia. On their months-long voyage the emigrants lived in a...
  • $30.00 Mary Proctor: convict, pioneer, settler
    Book Author: Jeff Atkinson is a graduate of the University of Melbourne and is a policy advisor for Oxfam Community Aid Abroad, Melbourne. This biography is the true story of a woman who was transported to Australia as a...
  • $29.50 Medical Directory of Australia, New Zealand etc 1915
    CD record The Medical Directory contains a large amount of statistics and current medical information for all of the Australian states, New Zealand, the Pacific islands, South East Asia, China and Japan. It contains...
  • $35.00 Men of Mont St Quentin
    Book At exactly1.30 p.m. On 1 September 1918, the dozen men of Nine Platoon, 21st Australian Infantry Battalion, rose from Elsa Trench and walked across a weedy beet-field toward the German defenders of Mont St Quentin...
  • $35.00 Merchant's Women
    Book The enterprising women on the Bussorah Merchant emigrant ship responded to advertisements that attracted them to migrate to far-away Australia. In contrast to convicts, these courageous women freely chose to make the...
  • $29.50 Motor Trade Directory of Australia 1928
    CD record This fascinating directory is a guide to all things relating to the motor trade. Containing information on motor vehicles as well as all related services - manufacturers, distributors, accessory houses, repair...
  • $29.50 Motor Trade Directory of Australia 1930
    CD record This fascinating handbook and directory contains information on motor vehicles and the motor trade generally. It covers passenger cars, commercial vehicles and motor cycles. This guide will interest a wide range of...
  • $29.50 Motor Trade Directory of Australia 1936-1937
    CD record Anyone in the motor trade in the 1930s will be interested in this fascinating handbook and directory. It covers passenger cars, commercial vehicles an motor cycles. For local historians - information on traders in...
  • $49.50 Motor Trade Directory of Australia Compendium 1 1928-1936
    CD record This compendium of motor trade directories contains a wealth of information relating to motor vehicles and the motor trade in bygone eras, in particular the 1920s and 1930s. Included in these directories is...
  • $22.00 Nancy Wake; A Biography of our greatest war heroine
    Book In the early 1930s, Nancy Wake was enjoying a bohemian life in Paris. By the end of the Second World War she was the Gestapo's most wanted person. Peter FitzSimons reveals Nancy Wake's compelling story, a tale of an...
  • $29.50 Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies
    CD record [1 CD (754 pages)]Published in 1843, this book by James Backhouse details his travels and observations in Australia between 1831 and 1838. During his time here, he kept a journal, recording notes on religious...
  • $10.00 Nation's Imagination Australia Copyright Records 1854-1968
    Book About this guide This guide comprehensively describes the collection of copyright records held by the National Archives of Australia. In addition to Commonwealth records, this collection includes colonial records from...
  • $34.50 Native Tribes of South-East Australia
    CD record [1 CD (861 pages)]Published in 1904, this book by anthropologist Alfred William Howitt is based on 40 years work which commenced with explorations in Central Australia. It is still considered an important work for...
  • $29.50 Newspaper Press Directory 1913
    CD record The NewspaperPress Directory is specificallya directory which contains information about all the leading newspapers in the United Kingdom as well as the leading newspapers which are published in theBritish...
  • $55.00 Nimble fingered tribe: The Convicts of the Sugar Cane, Ireland to Botany Bay 1793
    Book The second book in a series of five, A Nimble fingered tribe continues Barbra Hall's impressive and meticulous anthology of the Irish transported to Botany Bay prior to 1800, and is a captivating source for anyone...
  • $35.00 Norfolk Island 1774-1998
    Book A revised and enlarged edition. Softcover; A5; 228pp; Notes; Bibliography and Index. Author: Merval Hoare Now in its fifth edition, Norfolk Island: A Revised and Enlarged History 1774-1998 is an authoritative account of...
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    Book This is a work that evolved rather than especially conceived. It emerged from an effort to identify the fathers of particular children listed in Norfolk Island's 1805 Census. It was the practice, until 1810 for the...
  • $40.00 Nothing short of war: with the Australian army in Borneo 1962-1966
  • $33.00 Notorious Strumpets and Dangerous Girls
    CD record Notorious Strumpets and Dangerous Girls was originally published in 1990 as an 1,800-page book. It has long-since been out of print. This was how convict Julia Mullins was described by a government official when...
  • $55.00 Of Infamous Character: the convicts of the Boddingtons, Ireland to Botany Bay 1793
    Book Together with the first two publications in this series Desperate set of Villains (A) :The convicts of the Marquis Cornwallis, Ireland to Botany Bay 1796 and A Nimble fingered tribe: The Convicts of the Sugar Cane,...
  • $34.50 Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918 Vol VII: Sinai and Palestine
    CD record "The sole purpose of this narrative is to record the work of the Australian Light Horse in the British campaigns in Sinai, Palestine, and Syria during the years 1916, 1917 and 1918... The story, therefore, in its...
  • $29.50 Official records of Australian Military Contingents to the War in South Africa
    CD record This book is a compilation of official Australian reports regarding the war in South Africa, and was recorded as a memorial and remembrance of the war. It is written as a reference book rather than a history of the...
  • $23.50 Old Colonials
    CD record 1 CD - (294 pages)Published in1891, this book by Alexander J Boyd describes life in the Queensland bush as witnessed by him during his time as a school inspector and journalist. The collection of sketches of...
  • $19.50 On Guard
    CD record Featured here are the members of the Volunteer Defence Corps and their achievements during the four years since the Corps establishment. The VDC was composed mainly "of veterans of the First A.I.F., as well as of...
  • $40.00 On the move: A History of Transport in Australia
    Book Margaret Simpson 'On the Move' explores the fascinating stories behind the many and varied forms of transport and travel in Australia from basic bullock drays to the high-tech vehicles of the early 21st century...
  • $29.50 Orient Line Guide: Chapters for Travellers by Sea and by Land
    CD record This book was published in 1889 for the purpose of providing useful information and travelling tips to intending passengers sailing to Australia and New Zealand aboard steam ships of The Orient Line. A brief...
  • $50.00 Other Anzac Nurses
    Book By the end of the Great War, forty-five Australian and New Zealand nurses had died on overseas service and over two hundred had been decorated. These were women who left for war on an adventure, but were soon confronted...
  • $27.50 Our Australian Colonies
    CD record [1 CD (352 pages)]'Our Australian Colonies' by Samuel Mossman, traces the history of Australia's progress to 1865. He had a long and familiar acquaintance with each of the colonies and their people, having visited...
  • $29.50 Pictures of the Past: Memories of Men I Have Met and Places I Have Seen
    CD record [1 CD (562 pages)]Written by Francis H Grundy in 1879, this book gives an overview of the author's life as an engineer in England as well as his time in New South Wales and Queensland. Topics covered include: ...
  • $59.50 Picturesque Atlas of Australasia 1886-88
    CD record Published in Sydney in 1886-88, the enormous, multi-volume 'Picturesque Atlas of Australia' was an attempt with words and pictures to describe the Australia of the time. Its publication was one of the most...
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    Book Edited by John Pearn. A5; Softcover. 324 pp Frontispiece Foreword Contributors Acknowledgements Part 1. First Doctors Part 2. The Hostile Land Part 3. Public Health and Tropical Medicine Part 4. Pioneers and...
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    CD record Compiled and published in 1958 (14th edition) by Country Press Ltd., Newspaper House, Sydney. For each of the Australian states and territories and for New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, the book gives three...
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    CD record Prisoners of Australia: A Narrative was written by a lady with the initials C. A, to the London Committee of the 'British Ladies' Prison Visiting Association'. C. A. was commissioned by Mrs [Elizabeth] Fry to...
  • $35.00 Quarantined: the 1837 Lady Macnaghten Immigrants
    Book Quarantined! tells the story of one of the first shiploads of family migrants to arrive in Australia. When the Lady Macnaghten set sail from Cork Harbour, it contained over 400 emigrants from Ireland, and a sprinkling...
  • $19.50 RAAF Log
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    CD record This 1944 volume presents "in broad outline the developments of the warin the air in which the RAAF participated in the past year - thatwill breathe the spirit of Air Force and provide the Service with itsthird...
  • $19.50 RAAF Victory Roll The Royal Australian Airforce in its Sixth Year of War
    CD record Looking back over six years of "tremendous effort and gallant service". The stories in Victory Roll tell of some of the exploits of the RAAF during the final year of the war and, since anonymity is no longer...
  • $44.00 Racers of the Deep: Yankee Clippers and Bluenose Clippers on the Australian Run 1852-1869
    Book The Black Ball and the White Star shipping lines owned some of the world's largest and fastest clipper ships. From 1852 to 1869 their 146 ships dominated the run between Liverpool and Australasia. They carried a great...
  • $27.50 Recent Discovery of Gold in Australia 1852
    CD record The recent discovery of gold in Australia is in effect a series of papers presented to the British Parliament relating mainly to gold discoveries up to 1852 as elicited from despatches sent by Governor Fitzroy and...
  • $25.00 Rising Son of Empire
  • $27.50 Round the Compass in Australia
    CD record [1 CD (463 pages)] Consisting largely of articles appearing first in journals and then published in 1892 as a complete work, Gilbert Parker gives a glimpse of life and social conditions at the time in Australia...
  • $23.50 Roving Editors 1918
    CD record Here is a unique look at the the First World War through the eyes of a war `correspondent. Well-known South Australian journalist, and editor of The Register newspaper, William J. Sowden was one of a delegation of...
  • $10.00 Safe Haven (NAA Guide 12)
    Book Records of the JewishExperience in Australia About this guide Ever since the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788, Jewish people have been a small but significant group in Australian life. This guide charts the ups and...
  • $29.50 SAS: A Pictorial History of the Australian Special Air Service 1957-1997
    CD record 'SAS: A Pictorial History of the Australian Special Air Service 1957-1997' was published to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the formation of the Australian SAS. This CD contains facsimile images of the original...
  • $40.00 Scots in Australia
    Book Scots have been 'invisible' ethnics but happen to be Australia's third largest immigrant group. The Scots in Australia is a long overdue and comprehensive history of Scottish immigrants - including convicts and free...
  • $30.00 Settlers and seditionists: the people of the convict ship Surprize 1794
    Book 1793 was an annul horribilis for King George III... His French counterpart lost his head at the guillotine, while millions in Britain were reading Thomas Paine's "seditious" Rights of Man as issues of republicanism,...
  • $40.00 Shattered Anzacs: living with the scars of war
    Book 'Shattered Anzacs opens our eves to the experiences of men disabled by the First World War - 90,000 of them, far more than the 60,000 dead. With compassion and a scrupulous eye, Marina Larsson explores the impact of war...
  • $75.00 Shipping Arrivals and Departures V3 1856-60
    Book This extensive work provides a record of shipping movements in and out of ports within Victoria from 1856 to 1860. Separate lists of shipping arrivals and departures have been compiled for Melbourne, Geelong, Portland,...
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  • $40.00 Single and Free: Female migration to Australia 1833-1837
    Book Elizabeth Rushen Since Colonial times, Australians have been critical of large groupings of immigrants. This book focuses on the first scheme for female migration to Australia, exploring the reasons for contemporary and...
  • $19.50 Soldiering On: The Australian Army at Home and Overseas
    CD record Following in the tradition commenced with The Anzac Book, Soldiering Ontells the story of the Australian Army during 1942. All stories arecontributed by members of the Australian Army (referenced by their...
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    CD record Following the practice with Khaki and Green in 1943, this book is the compilation of stories written by members of the Army which wereselected for inclusion as part of a competition. As in earlier books inthe...
  • $45.00 States of a Nation
    Book The Politics and Surveys of the Australian State Borders"The States of a Nation - the politics and surveys of the Australian State Borders" traces a part of Australian history not previously well documented... A part of...
  • $23.50 Story of a Battalion: 48th Battalion of the AIF
    CD record [1 CD (224 pages)] Written by William Devine in 1919, this book describes the history of the 48th Battalion of the AIF from 16 March 1916 when they were raised in Egypt. In twenty-two chapters, he covers the...
  • $14.50 Telephone Directory December 1942: Personnel in Military Installations
    CD record Dated December 1942, this 77 page telephone directory gives the contact numbers for the various bases, as well as names and divisions of key personnel at each. It contains details from the following: GHQ South-West...
  • $19.50 These Eagles: Story of the RAAF at War
    CD record This book tells the story of the Royal Australian Air Force during theearly part of World War II. Almost everywhere there was air fightingAustralians were there - in Britain, over Germany, Denmark, Holland,France,...
  • $23.50 Thoughts on Convict Management
    CD record Thoughts on Convict Management was written by Captain Maconochie for the purpose of making recommendations about the way convicts should be disciplined, viewed and treated, focussing more on moral influences rather...
  • $23.50 Uncensored Dardanelles
    CD record Uncensored Dardanelles is a collection of memoirs written by Ellis Ashmead-Bartlette during the first word war, published in 1928. Ellis Ashmead-Bartlette was one of the first British War correspondents allowed to...
  • $38.50 Under friendly flags: Australians who served in the land, sea and Air forces of the allied nations in World War One
  • $23.50 Under Furred Hats: 6th ALH Regiment
    CD record [1 CD - (270 pages)]Written by George Lawrence Berrie in 1919, the book gives a brief description of the overseas service of the 6th Light Horse Regiment between December 1914 and August 1919. The history covers...
  • $23.50 Vacation Tour at the Antipodes Through Victoria,Tasmania, New South Wales, Queensland and New Zealand in 1861-1862
    CD record Written in 1863 by Benjamin Arthur Heywood, this book describes the author's tour in 1861-1862 through Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales, Queensland and New Zealand. After an introductory chapter giving a brief...
  • $22.00 Victoria And Australia's First War
    Book A detailed study of the part played by the Colonial Australian mariners of HMCSS Victoria during the First Taranaki War against the New Zealand Maori in 1860-61. Carefully researched and heavily footnoted this work...
  • $23.50 Victorian Military Forces: General Orders 1895
    CD record The 'Victorian Military Forces 1895' is a list of events that have been documented that relate to those in the Victorian military forces during 1895. Arranged chronologically, and broken down into months, you...
  • $10.00 Visit of Mr John King, the Explorer, to Talbot
    Book John King was the only survivor of the main party of the Victorian Exploration Expedition mounted by the Royal Society of Victoria in 1860 with the aim of crossing the Australian continent from south to north. Although...
  • $27.50 Wanderings South and East
    CD record Published in 1882, Wanderings South and East is a descriptive record of four years travel by Walter Coote 'in the less known Countries and Islands of the Southern and Eastern Hemispheres'. The book is divided into...
  • $33.00 Wanganella and the Australian Trans-Tasman Liners
    Book Although Wanganella was an Australian liner, owned by Huddart Parker Limited, she was very much a New Zealand ship as well, as she operated for the best part of thirty years between the two countries, and finished her...
  • $27.50 War Services of Old Melburnians 1914-1918
    CD record Members of the 'Old Melburnians Society' who served in World War I is the focus of this book. The Society was founded in 1879, with the aims and objectives of supporting the Melbourne Grammar School which opened...
  • $29.50 Wellbank's Australian Nautical Almanac and Coasters' Guide
    CD record Wellbank's Australian Nautical Almanac and Coasters' Guide is very rare. It was published annually from 1860 to 1889. The recent 'Australian Almanacs 1806-1930: A Bibliography' by Ian Morrison surveys the holding...
  • $19.50 Whale Oil Guards
    CD record [1 CD - (159 pages)] Written in 1918 by John Joseph Kennedy, the padre of the 53rd Battalion of the AIF - nicknamed in January 1917, The Whale Oil Guards. It is the story of the 53rd Battalion, the Green and...
  • $10.00 What Was the Voyage Really Like?: A Brief Guide to Researching Convict and Immigrant Voyages to Australia and New Zealand
    Book Discovering when and how an ancestor arrived in Australia is the ambition of every family historian. In the majority of instances it is now relatively simple, as archives have been indexing passenger lists over the...
  • $27.50 Wragge's Australasian Weather Guide and Almanac 1898
    CD record Wragge’s Australasian Weather Guide and Almanac contains a wide range of information on weather, meteorology and astronomy. As well as a focus on the weather, there is also useful and interesting information...
  • $27.50 Wragge's Australasian Weather Guide and Almanac 1900
    CD record Wragge's Australasian Weather Guide and Almanac contains a wide range of information on weather, meteorology and astronomy. As well as a focus on the weather, there is also useful and interesting information...
  • $27.50 Wragge's Australasian Weather Guide and Almanac 1903
    CD record Wragge's Australasian Weather Guide andAlmanac contains a wide range of information on weather, meteorology andastronomy. As well as a focus on the weather, there is also useful andinteresting information...
  • $15.50 Wreck of the Sailing Ship Netherby: A Miracle of Survival
    Book Don Charlwood has interwoven accounts by three men involved in the 1866 rescue of over 450 castaways from the wreck of the immigrant ship Netherby on King Island - between Victoria and Tasmania. But it is a fourth man,...
  • $29.50 Year Book of Australia 1884
    CD record The 'Year Book of Australia 1884' was published to provide Australian, English and Continental merchants and politicians with a detailed directory containing a wide range of useful and interesting information on...

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