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(Paperback)
By: Professor Pat Thane
ISBN: 9781350414426
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: James Crossland
ISBN: 9781526160676
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The rise of devils chronicles the emergence of terrorism in the late nineteenth century. This era simmered with political rage and social inequalities, which drove nationalists, nihilists, anarchists and republicans to extreme measures, while an outrage-hungry press peddled hysteria, conspiracy theories and, sometimes, fake news in response.
(Hardback, Main)
By: Alexandra Harris
ISBN: 9780571350520
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 21st March 2024
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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A luminous feat of time travel chronicling lives in a Sussex landscape from the prize-winning author of Romantic Moderns and Weatherland.
(Paperback)
By: Mary S. Lovell
ISBN: 9780349139890
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2017
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A portrait of high society in the twentieth century, told through the stories of the guests of Maxine Elliott and Prince Aly Khan at the Chteau de l'Horizon in Cannes.
(Paperback)
By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9780141395456
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2014
UK Publication Date: 2nd January 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s. This title provides descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment and more.
(Hardback)
By: Victor Sebestyen
ISBN: 9781800244719
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 8th June 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An illustrated account of one of the most pivotal events in modern history the Russian revolution of 1917.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Sean McMeekin
ISBN: 9781781259030
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
UK Publication Date: 3rd May 2018
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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Now in paperback, the first major new history of the Russian Revolution in a decade combines cutting-edge scholarship and a fast-paced narrative to shed new light on a great turning point of the twentieth century.
(Paperback, New in Paperback)
By: John Goodlad
ISBN: 9781780278285
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2023
UK Publication Date: 3rd August 2023
Publisher: Birlinn General
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This book tells the extraordinary story of Shetlands most enduring export. It ranges from the wild waters of the North Atlantic and the remote ice filled fjords of west Greenland to the Basque country, from the fishing grounds of Iceland to the Jewish shtetls of Poland and from the mountains of Faroe to the flat coastline of the Netherlands.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Lincoln Paine
ISBN: 9781782393580
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2015
UK Publication Date: 2nd July 2015
Publisher: Atlantic Books
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'The most enjoyable, the most refreshing, the most stimulating, the most comprehensive, the most discerning, the most insightful, the most up-to-date - in short, the best maritime history of the world.' - Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
(Paperback)
By: John Blaxland
ISBN: 9781760297428
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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The inside account of Australia's national intelligence organisation as it grappled with continuing espionage from foreign agents and the rise of terrorist attacks on Australian soil during the years of the Fraser and Hawke governments. This is the third and final volume of the Official History of ASIO.
(Paperback)
By: Oliver Tearle
ISBN: 9781789295924
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2024
UK Publication Date: 28th March 2024
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books Ltd
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The Secret Library is a fascinating tour of Western history through the medium of its most emblematic invention the book.
(Paperback, Illustrated edition)
By: Kassia St Clair
ISBN: 9781473630833
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2018
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The unforgettable history of colours and the vivid stories behind them in a beautiful multi-coloured volume
(Hardback, Illustrated edition)
By: Kassia St Clair
ISBN: 9781473630819
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
UK Publication Date: 20th October 2016
Publisher: John Murray Press
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The unforgettable history of colours and the vivid stories behind them in a beautiful multi-coloured volume
(Paperback)
By: Elizabeth Tynan
ISBN: 9781742236957
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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Elizabeth Tynan, the award-winning author of Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga Story, reveals a story of a cataclysmic collision between an ancient Aboriginal land and the post-war Britain of Winston Churchill and his gung-ho scientific advisor Frederick Lindemann.
(Paperback)
By: Michelle Arrow
ISBN: 9781742234700
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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The Seventies was the decade that shaped modern Australia. In a lively and engaging style, Michelle Arrow has written a new history of this transformative decade; one that is more urgent, and more resonant, than ever.
(Paperback)
By: Joe Fox
ISBN: 9781922613998
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
Publisher: Magabala Books
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(Hardback)
By: Tom Nancollas
ISBN: 9780241434147
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Tom Nancollas
ISBN: 9780241434154
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
UK Publication Date: 30th March 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Larry Writer
ISBN: 9781760879105
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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The epic story of one of Australia's greatest maritime disasters, the wreck of the Dunbar.
(Paperback, New Edition)
By: Siobhn McHugh
ISBN: 9781742236223
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2019
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
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Tells the extraordinary story of the mostly migrant workforce who built one of the world's engineering marvels. This classic, prize-winning account of the remarkable Snowy Scheme is available again for the 70th anniversary of this epic nation-building project.
(Hardback)
By: Nicholas Nugent
ISBN: 9780712355957
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2025
Publisher: British Library Publishing
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A first-class narrative writer blends his unique cartographic and topographic understanding of the key ports of early seaborne commerce.
(Paperback)
By: Ben Macintyre
ISBN: 9780241972137
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2019
UK Publication Date: 30th May 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Niall Ferguson
ISBN: 9780141984810
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Dexter Ford
ISBN: 9781804191224
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2023
Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group
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