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In 1835 a renegade group of Tasmanians wishing to expand their landholdings disembarked in what was to become Melbourne. This colonising expedition was funded by a group of investors including the Jewish convict Joseph Solomon. Thus, in Melbourne, as in the settlement of the continent itself, Jews were at the foundation of colonisation.

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Explores the colourful debates and anxieties that were prevalent from the 1890s to the 1930s and the responses of the key women's organisations whose leadership and campaigns acknowledged that - outside of parliament and party politics - women's connection to political matters could be both innovative and socially influential.

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How has a student debating society at Cambridge University thrived for nearly two centuries, and commanded such attention from the outside world

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A new edition of the account of the race to build humankind's most destructive weapon. This book draws on declassified material, such as MI6's FarmHall transcripts, coded Soviet messages cracked by American cryptographers in the Venona project, and interpretations by Russian scholars of documents from the Soviet archives.

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Before becoming the prime ministers who led Australia in moments of extraordinary crisis and transformation, John Curtin and James Scullin were two young working-class men who dreamt of changing their country for the better. Becoming John Curtin and James Scullin tells the tale of their intertwined early lives.

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Richard Milton exposes the secrets of a relationship steeped in mutual admiration, blood and propaganda.

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In this vital and illuminating book, Peter Cochrane examines how the racial preoccupations that shaped Australia's preparation for and commitment to the war have been lost to popular memory.

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Recovers the conflicted politics around Aboriginal affairs in the first decades of the twentieth century - asking why there was such investment in Aboriginal affairs in the first half of the twentieth century, what form it took, what was at stake, and what the outcomes were.

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The Monuments Men meets The Great Escape in this cinematic, rip-roaring WWII breakout history thriller featuring larger-than-life characters.

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A memoir of ancestry and upbringing in the Georgia low country with historical essays, images and maps

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A brilliant new history of the city, told through the lens of its popes.

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Travel writer Julia Cooke's exhilarating portrait of Pan Am stewardesses in the Mad Men era.

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Travel writer Julia Cooke's exhilarating portrait of Pan Am stewardesses in the Mad Men era.

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The extraordinary story of a slave-girl who rose from concubine to become the Ottoman Empire's only queen.

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The dramatic story of the collision of two worlds that created contemporary Australia. It begins in 1788 in Warrane, now known as Sydney, with the friendship between an Englishman, Governor Phillip, and the kidnapped warrior Bennelong. It ends in 1993 with Koiki Mabo's legal challenge to the foundation of Australia.

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An illuminating exploration of early Southern African hunters and herders.

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A kaleidoscopic account of five days in the life of a city on the edge, told through eight characters on the front lines of the uprising that overtook Baltimore and riveted the world.

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A kaleidoscopic account of five days in the life of a city on the edge, told through eight characters on the front lines of the uprising that overtook Baltimore and riveted the world.

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Four Faces of Femininity explores, through the lens of four ancient archetypes, the stories of incredible women who blazed trails and demolished obstacles, making history along the way. They will inspire and empower you to find the mother, lover, warrior, and sage within yourself.

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A thought provoking series of early writings from United States Presidents, starting this season with George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, and moving chronologically forward.

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GIs and Germans join forces in a thrilling true adventure story from the last days of the Second World War.