Embroidering Her Truth - Mary, Queen of Scots and the Language of Power by Clare Hunter
$12.00 AUD
Category: History
I felt that Mary was there, pulling at my sleeve, willing me to appreciate the artistry, wanting me to understand the dazzle of the material world that shaped her.At her execution Mary, Queen of Scots wore red. Widely known as the colour of strength and passion, it was in fact worn by Mary as the Cathol ...Show more
Cloaked in Bravery: A Rescue Mission Like No Other by Tony Matthews
$32.99 AUD
Category: History
Experience the extraordinary journey of a woman who risked everything to follow her man into battle in a desperate attempt to rescue him from the death that inevitably beckoned. Christian, driven by an unwavering devotion to her missing husband, cast aside her comfortable life, family, and even her chil ...Show more
Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century by Christina Riggs
$20.00 AUD
Category: History
A surprising new history of Tutankhamun published to coincide with the centenary of his tomb's discovery. When it was found in 1922, the 3,300-year old tomb of Tutankhamun sent shockwaves around the world, turning the boy-king into a household name overnight and kickstarting an international media obses ...Show more
The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great by Alex Rowson
$12.00 AUD
Category: History
In brilliant biography, Alex Rowson offers an astonishing new account of Alexander the Great – one of the most important figures of the ancient world, but whose earlier years have until now been a mystery. Alexander the Great conquered land from Macedonia to Egypt to India, known now both for his accomp ...Show more
Gibraltar - The Greatest Siege in British History by Roy Adkins; Lesley Adkins
$15.00 AUD
Category: History
A rip-roaring account of the dramatic four-year siege of Britain's Mediterranean garrison by Spain and France--an overlooked key to the British loss in the American Revolution For more than three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of Gibraltar was besieged and blockaded, on land ...Show more
Cabinets of Curiosities by Patrick Mauriès
$45.00 AUD
Category: History
Unicorns' horns, mermaids' skeletons, stuffed and preserved animals and plants, precious metals, clocks, scientific instruments, celestial globes--all knowledge, the whole cosmos, arranged on shelves in a single room. Such were the cabinets of curiosities of the seventeenth century, the last period of h ...Show more
The Bohemians - The Couple Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis by Norman Ohler
$15.00 AUD
Category: History
From the New York Times best-selling author of Blitzed, the incredible true story of two idealistic young lovers who led the anti-Nazi resistance in the darkening heart of Berlin Summertime, 1935. On a lake near Berlin, a young man is out sailing when he glimpses a woman reclining in the prow of a ...Show more
Graveyard of the Pacific: Shipwreck and Survival on America's Deadliest Waterway by Randall Sullivan
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A vivid portrait of the Columbia River Bar that combines maritime history, adventure and memoir, bringing to life one of the most notorious stretches of water in the world.
Idiots, Follies and Misadventures by Mikey Robins
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the universe. Albert Einstein The history books are full of heroes and villains… but what about all the idiots? Comedian and armchair historian Mikey Robins tells the astonishing story of human stupidity, one idiot at a ti ...Show more
A History of Women in 101 Objects: A walk through female history by Annabelle Hirsch
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
The way we remember the past today remains dishearteningly patriarchal: a place where women have always been oppressed by men, from ancient times to the present day. A History of Women in 101 Objects tells a new story of female history, revealing the evolution of the role women have played in society th ...Show more
Cleopatra: Her History, Her Myth by Francine Prose
$22.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Ancient Lives Ser.
A feminist reinterpretation of the myths surrounding Cleopatra casts new light on the Egyptian queen and her legacy
Plagues and Pandemics: Black Death, Coronaviruses and Other Killer Diseases Throughout History by DOUGLAS BOYD
$15.00 AUD
Category: History
All you need for a plague to go pandemic are population clusters and travellers spreading the bacterial or viral pathogens. Many prehistoric civilisations died fast, leaving cities undamaged to mystify archeologists. Plague in Athens killed 30% of the population 430-426 BCE. When Roman Emperor Justinian ...Show more