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Rachel Chrastil
Less than a month after it marched into France in summer 1870, the Prussian army had devastated its opponents, captured Napoleon III and wrecked all assumptions about Europe’s pecking order…
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Michelle Arrow (ed.)
The Whitlam government transformed Australia. And yet the scope and scale of the reforms for Australian women are often overlooked. Women and Whitlam brings together three generations to revisit the…
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Jane Carey
Taking to the Field is the first comprehensive history of Australian women in science from the colonial period to contemporary times.
Carmela Ciuraru
A witty look inside the tumultuous marriages of five famous writers-focusing on the wives of either gender-that illuminates the creative process as well as the role of money, fame, and…
Kate Zernike
The remarkable untold story of how a group of sixteen determined women used the power of the collective and the tools of science to inspire ongoing radical change. This is…
Bethan Johnson, Matt Millikan
A lively celebration of the bold, defiant screen goddess and the way film and television have shaped our view of womanhood
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Patricia Clarke
Patricia Clarke recounts the chequered journey of women journalists in the fight for gender equality from 1860 to the end of World War II.
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Margot Lee Shetterly
The never-before-told true story of NASA’s African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America’s space program.
Rachael Lennon
Wedded Wife is a feminist study of the institution of marriage and its history around the globe
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Lisa Hannett
Let's travel in time together, a thousand or so years back, and meet Viking women in their hearth-lit world.
How did these medieval viragoes live, love and die? How can…
Monica Potts
An unforgettable story of friendship and lost promise in 21st-century America
Christine Helliwell
Winner of the Les Carlyon Literary Prize and the Prime Minister's Literary Awards Australian History Prize. First Runner Up for Templer Medal Book Prize (UK). Shortlisted for the NSW Premier's…
Lynne Olson
The fascinating story of the feisty French archaeologist who led the international effort to save ancient Egyptian temples from the floodwaters of the Aswan Dam.
In the 1960s, the world’s…
Barbara Minchinton
A vivid account of a remarkable but little-known chapter in Melbourne’s history
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Helen Rappaport
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes the story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought freedom and refuge in the City of…
Louisa Lim
An award-winning journalist takes to the protest-riven streets of Hong Kong to write this startling landmark account of the island city’s complex past and precarious future.
Julia Boyd,Angelika Patel
A stunningly evocative portrait of Hitler’s Germany through the people of a single village.
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Deborah Cadbury
The extraordinary true story of progressive schoolteacher, Anna Essinger, the woman who defied Hitler, smuggling her school and its pupils from Nazi Germany to the safety of England
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Katja Hoyer
The definitive new history of East Germany by an acclaimed historian
In 1990, a country disappeared. For the previous forty-one years, East Germany had existed in Western minds as more…
Alison Weir
The third volume of Alison Weir’s magisterial history of the queens of medieval England
Kathy Kleiman
A fascinating, forgotten story of the six brilliant women who launched modern computing.
Katy Hessel
How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway?
Clare Hunter
An alternative biography of Mary, Queen of Scots through the textiles of her life from the author of Sunday Times bestseller Threads of Life
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Anna Clark
A bold and expansive history that traces the changing and contested project of Australia’s national story. You will think about this country differently after reading this book.
Eliza Reilly
An entertaining romp through Australian history that celebrates the badass sheroes we were never taught about in school and who deserve to be printed on our money, goddamn it!
Jackie Huggins
A new edition of seminal Tiddaist classic by Murri historian and activist Jackie Huggins, featuring timely and compelling speeches and essays.
Mary Beard
From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for…
Emma Smith
An effervescent and excitingly revisionist history of bibliophilia, from a globally respected Shakespeare scholar
Claire G. Coleman
A deeply personal exploration of Australia’s colonisation past, present and future by one of Australia’s finest contemporary authors.
Chelsea Watego
A ground-breaking work - and a call to arms - that exposes the ongoing colonial violence experienced by First Nations people.
Kaz Cooke
You’re Doing it Wrong is an outrageous tour through the centuries of bonkers and bad advice handed down and foisted upon women, told as only Kaz Cooke can - with…
Anne Sebba
The tragic story of Ethel Rosenberg, the first woman in America to be sent to her death for a crime other than murder
Hannah Dawson
A powerful new anthology of feminist voices throughout history and from around the world
Anna Reser,Leila McNeill
Spanning the ancient period to the present day, this richly illustrated book seeks to redress the balance, with over 20 essays exploring how women have created space for themselves in…
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Maura Reilly
The definitive anthology of writings on women in art by the late Linda Nochlin, one of the most influential and revolutionary voices in feminist art history.
Catherine Fletcher
An imaginative and revelatory new history of the Italian Renaissance that challenges our preconceptions of the era
Elizabeth Tynan
Emu Field is overshadowed by Maralinga, the larger and much more prominent British atomic test site about 193 kilometres to the south. But Emu Field has its own secrets, and…
Christina Thompson
A masterful mix of history, geography, anthropology, and the science of navigation, Sea People is a vivid tour of one of the most captivating regions in the world.
Francesca Wade
Five exceptional women; one London square. A spellbinding group biography by a luminous new talent.
Jill Lepore
In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation.
Svetlana Alexievich
‘Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? A whole world is hidden from…
Professor Mary Beard
A sweeping, revisionist history of the Roman Empire from one of our foremost classicists.
Catherine Merridale
A gripping account of how Lenin’s 1917 train ride to Petrograd ignited the Russian Revolution.
