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Convict Orphans: The heartbreaking stories of the colony's forgotten children, and those who succeeded against all odds
Shortlisted for the 2025 Tasmanian Literary Awards Premier's Prize for Non-fiction Longlisted for the 2024 Green Family Tasmanian History Award All families have their secrets, and a convict ancestor or...
Mary Ann and Captain Piper: The remarkable true story of the convicts' daughter who became the toast of colonial Sydney
'An astonishing story of lust and love in early colonial Australia, shocking, entrancing and utterly enthralling.' - Sue Williams, author of Elizabeth and Elizabeth Born on Norfolk Island to First...
The Shipwreck: The true story of the Dunbar, the disaster that broke the colony's heart and forged a nation's spirit
'gripping, engaging popular history' - Sydney Morning Herald The Dunbar was one of the most advanced and celebrated sailing ships of the mid-19th century. Built to carry passengers in speed...
Warrior: A legendary leader's dramatic life and violent death on the colonial frontier
Winner of the 2015 Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance Winner of the 2016 Magarey Medal for Biography 'Connors lays down the hard truth. Not all our...
Tasmania's Convicts: How felons built a free society
To the convicts arriving in Van Diemen's Land, it must have felt as though they'd been sent to the very ends of the earth. In Tasmania's Convicts Alison Alexander tells...
Conspiracy of Silence: Queensland's frontier killing times
'This is an important, well researched book: challenging, compelling and controversial. It is a must read for anyone interested in Australian history.' - Henry Reynolds The Queensland frontier was more...
Australians Volume 2: Eureka to the Diggers
In this companion volume of Thomas Keneally's widely acclaimed history of the Australian people, the vast range of characters who have formed our national story are brought vividly to life....
The Colony: A history of early Sydney
Winner of the 2010 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-Fiction 'Grace Karskens writes with the passion and insight of a novelist, and the accuracy of a historian. To read it...
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories
One of America's best-loved short stories, plus other tales, in a handsome, collectible edition. Washington Irving's short stories have captured the imaginations of generations since the early nineteenth century. Now...
Anne of Green Gables
Follow the adventures of spirited reader, Anne Shirley, as she settles into her new home, makes friends, and stirs up trouble. Farm-owning siblings Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert want to adopt...
Diamonds and Deadlines: A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and a Female Tycoon in the Gilded Age
Among the fabled tycoons of the Gilded Age-Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt-is a forgotten figure: Mrs. Frank Leslie. For twenty years she ran the country's largest publishing company, Frank Leslie Publishing, which...
Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry: 1890-1940
The Arts and Crafts Movement, a fascinating period in decorative history, led to the unprecedented commercialisation of fine crafts and the empowerment of thousands of women and immigrants, who began...
Bizarre & Outlandish Gadgets & Doohickeys: Used in Everyday Life-1851
Hundreds of 19th- and 20th-century curiosities and contraptions are catalogued in this amusing assembly of more than 1,000 images. The days from the first Great Industrial Exhibition of 1851 to...
Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's
Discover the true story of a self-taught surgeon and trailblazing figure in medical history-Madame Restsell, a revolutionary surgeon who fought for women's rights and healthcare in Gilded Age New York.?An...
Bizarre & Outlandish Gadgets & Doohickeys: Used in Everyday Life-1851
Hundreds of 19th- and 20th-century curiosities and contraptions are catalogued in this amusing assembly of more than 1,000 images. The days from the first Great Industrial Exhibition of 1851 to...
Women in the Dark: Female Photographers in the US, 1850-1900
Recover the stories of long-overlooked American women who, at a time when women rarely worked outside the home, became commercial photographers and shaped the new, challenging medium. Covering two generations...
A Brief History of Fighting Ships
This introduction to the years of the Napoleonic wars (1793 to 1815) tells the story of one of the keys to that great conflict, the Ship of the Line -...
The Book of Lost Friends
From the No.1 New York Times bestselling author of BEFORE WE WERE YOURSLouisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous aftermath of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a...
Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery and Self-Making in Nineteenth
In this radical re-evaluation of American history, Saidiya Hartman uses her singular talents to create a striking portrait of nineteenth century slavery and its many afterlives. By turning critical attention...
The Secrets of Blythswood Square: The gripping and scandalous new 2024
LONGLISTED FOR SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2024.THE ENCHANTING NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF THE 2022 WATERSTONES SCOTTISH BOOK OF THE YEAR, THE FAIR BOTANISTS.'Gripping' Good Housekeeping'Secrets discovered, ruinous rumours...
The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive
In 2017 the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction for $450m. But is it a real da Vinci? In a thrilling narrative built on formidable research, Ben Lewis tracks the...
Mischievous Creatures: The Forgotten Sisters Who Transformed Early
The untold story of two sisters whose discoveries sped the growth of American science in the nineteenth centuryIn Mischievous Creatures, historian Catherine McNeur uncovers the lives and work of Margaretta...
John Sloan: Drawing on Illustration
The American realist artist John Sloan (1871-1951) is best known for his portrayals of daily life in early 20th-century New York and as a member of The Eight and the...
Lewis and Clark - across the Divide
Two hundred years ago Lewis and Clark, two men shaped by Jefferson's Enlightenment ideas, encountered an Indian world they only partly understood. Their discoveries and the artifacts from their journey...
Vital Rails: The Civil War History of the Charleston and Savannah
Completed in 1860 and spanning more than one hundred miles across rice fields, salt marshes, and seven rivers and creeks, the Charleston & Savannah Railroad was designed to revolutionize the...
The Crimean War and Irish society
The purpose of this book is to produce what is essentially a 'home front' study of Ireland during the Crimean War, or more specifically Irish society's responses to that conflict....
Cotton Capitalists: American Jewish Entrepreneurship in the
Honorable Mention, 2019 Saul Viener Book Prize, given by the American Jewish Historical Society A vivid history of the American Jewish merchants who concentrated in the nation's most important economic...
Napoleon in Defeat and Captivity 1815-1821
The book tells the fascinating, compelling and tragic tale of Napoleon Bonaparte from his defeat at Waterloo, through the period of his abdication in Paris to his capture by the...
British Invasion of the River Plate 1806-1807
In 1806 a British expeditionary force captured Buenos Aires. Over the next eighteen months, Britain was sucked into a costly campaign on the far side of the world. The Spaniards...
Emperor of Liberty: Thomas Jefferson's Foreign Policy
A dramatic reevaluation of Thomas Jefferson's thinking on foreign policy and his record as a statesman This book, the first in decades to closely examine Thomas Jefferson's foreign policy, offers...
The Lost Story of the Ocean Monarch
The ship was almost instantly in flames . . . Some jumped overboard immediately, and all was in indescribable confusion. The masts began to fall one after another, and it...
American Sharpe
Sharpe and his adventures has made the 95th Foot renowned again and the discovery of an unpublished diary by an American from Charleston South Carolina who served, despite his father's...
Forgotten Fortress: Fort Millard Fillmore and Antebellum New Mexico
Fort Millard Fillmore, named for the thirteenth President of the United States, was the first U.S. Army fort established in southern New Mexico Territory. Its primary purpose was to control...
The Cradle of Chemistry: The Early Years of Chemistry at the
This book describes the progress of chemistry at the University of Edinburgh from the appointment of the first professor, James Crawford, in 1713 to the career of Thomas Charles Hope,...
Slavic Sins of the Flesh: Food, Sex, and Carnal Appetite in
This remarkable work by Ronald D. LeBlanc is the first study to appraise the representation of food and sexuality in the nineteenth-century Russian novel. Meticulously researched and elegantly and accessibly...
Charging Against Wellington: the French Cavalry in the Peninsular War,
Like the author's previous book, The British Army Against Napoleon, Charging Against Wellington draws heavily on primary sources, manuals, memoirs, and regimental histories to bring to life the officers and...
Albuera 1811: the Bloodiest Battle of the Peninsular War
On 16 May 1811, the small town of Albuera was the setting for one of the Peninsular War's most bloody and desperate battles. A combined Spanish, British and Portuguese force...
Stephen Decatur: A Life Most Bold and Daring
* The story of one of America's great naval heroes *Provides insights into life aboard ship in the war of 1812 *Explores the tragic death of this extraordinary naval officer...
Decline and Fall of Napoleon's Empire
In this wide-ranging study of the Napoleonic regime, Digby Smith tracks Napoleon's rise to power, his stewardship of France from 1804 15, and his exile. He highlights his military mistakes,...
From Corunna to Waterloo: The Letters and Journals of Two Napoleonic
This is the story of two young Welsh cavalry officers who served for much of the Napoleonic Wars with the 15th (King's) Hussars. Major Edwin Griffith and his nephew, Captain...
Dictionary Of Modern Arab Histor
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From 1980 until Dr. Bidwell's death in 1994, much of his time was taken up with the writing and compilation of this encyclopaedic work which represents, in the true sense...
An Ancient Air
Examines the life of John Stringfellow of Chard, the first man to demonstrate that engine-powered winged flight was practicable. It reveals his lifelong obsession with aviation and seeks to shed...
Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First
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The Instant New York Times Besteller National Bestseller "[The] authors' finest work to date." --Wall Street JournalThe explosive true saga of the legendary figure Daniel Boone and the bloody struggle...
Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship Antelope
In 1820, a suspicious vessel was spotted lingering off the coast of northern Florida, the Spanish slave ship Antelope. Since the United States had outlawed its own participation in the...
The War in the Peninsula and Recollections of the Storming of the
The War in the PeninsulaIan Fletcher, who provides introductions to both these memoirs, is an acknowledged expert on the Napoleonic wars and is the author of best-selling Wellington's Regiments, amongst...
The Crimean War and Irish society
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The purpose of this book is to produce what is essentially a 'home front' study of Ireland during the Crimean War, or more specifically Irish society's responses to that conflict....
Victorians in Camera
'The making of a lifelike picture was something to be wondered at. It was an adventure, it was an expense, and it was often something of an ordeal...' 'Victorians in...
Victorian Turkish Baths
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Victorian Turkish Baths is the first book to bring to light the hidden history of a fascinating institution-the 600-plus dry hot-air baths descended from the ancient Roman thermae-which opened between...