Benloch - A Journey Through Time by Noreen Yorke
$35.00 AUD
Category: New History
A history of Benloch, its pioneering families and businesses
Kyneton from Past to Present - Photographic Studies of Kyneton by Ken McKimmie; Larina Strauch
$55.00 AUD
Category: New History
Kyneton's European history began shortly after Major Mitchell's journey through the area in 1836 when he declared that the area was a pastoral paridise
Snapsots in Time - Images of Lancefield, Romsey and Surrounding Villages by Fay Woodhouse; Beth Child; Shirley Kishere (Editor)
$20.00 AUD
Category: New History
Snapshots in time presents a range of photographs of Lancefield, Romsey and its surrounding villages from the 1870s to the 1950s. This book of 60 pages of black and white photographs shows all facets of life in the region including bailing hay, managing cattle, historic buildings and some of the interes ...Show more
A History of Redesdale by Ken James and Noel Davis
$92.00 AUD
Category: New History
The township of Redesdale is on the Kyneton-Heathcote road, 95 kilometres north-west of Melbourne and 35 kilometres south-east of Bendigo. It is located in the City of Greater Bendigo local government area. A History of Redesdale (530 pages) was published in 2016 by local historians Ken James and Noel D ...Show more
The Mallee: A Journey Through North-West Victoria (HB) by Adam McNicol (Text by, Photographer); Erin Jonasson (Photographer); Phil Campbell (Designed by, Photographer); Andrew Chapman (Photographer); Noel Butcher (Photographer); Melanie Dove (Photographer); Heather Ewart (Foreword by); Jaime Murcia (Photographer)
$69.99 AUD
Category: New History
Between 1880 and 1930, a series of schemes brought thousands of settlers to Victoria’s Mallee region. At the same time, a number of railway lines were constructed through the area, with towns constructed approximately every 10 miles. Now, almost a century after the settlement schemes ended and the depop ...Show more
The Wimmera: A Journey Through Western Victoria by Adam McNicol
$69.99 AUD
Category: New Photography
A partner volume to The Mallee: A journey through north-west Victoria, this book will be another stunning written and photographic documentary, focusing on the small towns that dot the Wimmera.
100+Neds - 150 Years of the Iron Outlaw by Geoff Hocking (Designed by)
$25.00 AUD
Category: New History
A collection of images from popular culture: books, film posters, concrete garden ornaments, tattoos, comic characters, graffiti and car bumper stickers et. al., that celebrate the daring, but infamous career of the, much feared, yet much admired, Australian bushranger Ned Kelly.
A SAVIOUR OF LIVING CARGOES by WALKER CAROLE
$29.95 AUD
Category: New History
Caroline Chisholm¿s philanthropic work was of lasting benefit to British emigrants and colonies - to Australia in particular. In New South Wales, she found shelter and employment for female immigrants and pressed officials to adopt her schemes for settling families on the land. In London, she arranged f ...Show more
Adrift in Melbourne: Seven Walks with Robyn Annear by Robyn Annear
$27.99 AUD
Category: New History
Melbourne's streets have always been marvellous--but the proud facades of the nineteenth-century boom aren't the half of it. What about the stories behind them? The great corset scandal of Melbourne's belle epoque; The heritage-listed toilets out the back of the Rialto; The exploits of the women who ra ...Show more
Daughters of Melbourne: A Guide to the Invisible Statues of Melbourne by Maree Coote
$55.00 AUD
Category: New History
At last! A TRUER History of Melbourne... With Added Women for extra strength!Meet the daughters of Melbourne. The rich gals; the poor gals; the gorgeous gay gals—And the gals who’d rather paint. Meet Aboriginal warriors who don’t care for compromise. Meet divas dubbed ‘difficult’, while their men are ne ...Show more
Gold Off To The Diggings by Geoff Hocking
$60.00 AUD
Category: Secondhand History
Through Hocking's easy to read narrative style, we learn of the rollicking days on the goldfields - from California to Australia. Each chapter tells a different story - bushrangers on the diffings, hordes of Chinese also seeking riches under the Southern Cross, to the women of the goldfields including t ...Show more
Sandhurst. Genesis to Federation. 1835-1910 - A Richly Illustrated Story of Victoria and the Bendigo Goldfields by Geoff Hocking (Designed by)
$70.00 AUD
Category: New History
Sandhurst was originally the name given to the city that is today known as Bendigo.The goldfields were known as the Bendigo diggings, a name appropriated from the all-England bare-knuckle boxing champion William 'Bold Bendigo' Thompson who was at the height of his fame at the time of the discovery of go ...Show more