In Australia, clinical neurology emerged as a specialised area of medical practice a century ago, in the aftermath of World War I. Some twenty-five years later, the eight men then involved in neurological...

After the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa in 1960, sport became a fault-line in international campaigns against racism. Struggles over racism penetrated every aspect of sporting interaction between Australia and South Africa. In no country were contests over racism in sport more bitterly fought than in Australia.

This book closely examines the conflict in New Zealand in 1820–1859 by the recently British-colonized eastern-seaboard Australia (the strongly established colony of New South Wales), in the context of British, French, and American colonial expansion in the Pacific.

The early European explorers of Australia, from the early 1600s to the mid-1800s, narrated the bewilderment, misunderstandings, affection and hostility that arose in their encounters with the Indigenous peoples. Their reports are most revealing and are closely examined.

For 70 years powerful countries dispatched expeditions to explore the south polar regions. By 1843 they had seen enough to realize that this most remote and impenetrable place offered considerable danger...

A prequel to his ‘World’s end’: British military outposts in the ‘ring fence’ around Australia 1824–1849, this book by prize-winning historian and keen sailor Alan Powell celebrates the...

A saga of exceptional valor in World War II by Australian volunteers in the Royal Navy. Their service was diverse and dangerous, in the Battle of the Atlantic; the Arctic convoys to Murmansk in Russia;...

Through photography, this book revisits the places museum collections were made, and the places they ended up in. It is a meditation on presence and absence.