UPROAR!: Scandal and Satire in Georgian London by Alice Loxton
$49.99 AUD
Category: History
**A brilliant new history of Georgian Britain through the eyes of the artists who immortalised it, by one of the UK’s most exciting young historians** ‘Alice Loxton is the star of her generation … the next big thing in history’ DAN SNOW London, 1772: a young artist called Thomas Rowlandson is making his ...Show more
Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland by Karl Schlogel
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Ukraine is a country caught in a political tug of war: looking East to Russia and West to the European Union, this pivotal nation has long been a pawn in a global ideological game. And since Russia's annexation of Crimea in March 2014 in response to the Ukrainian Euromaidan protests against oligarchical ...Show more
Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World's Most Contested City by Andrew Lawler
$54.99 AUD
Category: History
A sweeping history of the hidden world below the Holy City-a saga of biblical treasures, intrepid explorers, and political upheaval "These untold stories of archeological digs near and under Jerusalem's sacred sites convey all the colorful and violent and contentious history of the Israeli-Palestinian ...Show more
Under the Milky Way: Traditions and Celebrations Beneath the Stars by Frané Lessac (Illustrator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
This celebratory picture book from Frané Lessac shines a light on beloved nighttime traditions under the starry skies of North America.Beneath a blanket of stars, crowds cheer at Little League games, campers share fireside stories, bull-riders hold on tight, and sled dogs race through falling snow -- al ...Show more
Undreamed Shores: Five Women Who Sought Out the World by Frances Larson
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The inspiring story of five women who set out to explore the furthest reaches of the globe and redefine scholarship. At the dawn of the twentieth century, Katherine Routledge, Maria Czaplicka, Winifred Blackman, Beatrice Blackwood and Barbara Freire-Marreco set out to explore the furthest reaches of the ...Show more
Undreamed Shores: The Hidden Heroines of British Anthropology by Frances Larson
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
The extraordinary true story of five women who met in Oxford at the dawn of the 20th century, and set out to explore the furthest reaches of the known world In the first decades of the 20th century, five women arrived at Oxford to take the newly created Masters diploma in Anthropology. Though their cir ...Show more
Unforgettable Ancient Sites - Mysterious Sites, Temple Complexes, Ancient Architecture by M. J. Howard
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
Unforgettable Ancient Sites includes mysterious megalithic sites that appear to have been built using geometric principles far in advance of their time, pyramids that once ran with sacrificial blood, vast temple complexes, lost cities and stunning works of ancient architecture, these sites all have one ...Show more
Unfortunate Ends On Murder and Misadventure in Medieval England by Soren Lily
$27.99 AUD
Category: History
From the author of Twitter’s Medieval Death Bot comes Unfortunate Ends: On Murder and Misadventure in Medieval England, an illuminating collection of in-depth looks at the most interesting cases from medieval coroners’ rolls Thomas, son of Henry Robekyn, died 1286 after cutting off his left foot and the ...Show more
Unmaking Angas Downs: Myth and History on a Central Australian Pastoral Station by Shannyn Palmer
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
A new work of history that seeks to unmake mythologies of pioneers, pastoralism and possession in the Northern TerritorySome stories dominate how we see and interpret a place, while others are obscured from view. Angas Downs is a pastoral station in Central Australia, but pastoralism is only a fraction ...Show more
Unquiet Women: From the Dusk of the Roman Empire to the Dawn of the Enlightenment by Max Adams
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
In a fascinating journey of rediscovery, Max Adams brings to life the forgotten experiences – and voices – of some of the most extraordinary women in history. Unquiet Women is an exquisitely crafted patchwork of the forgotten lives of some of the most remarkable women in history. Wynflad was an Anglo-Sa ...Show more
Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens by David Mitchell
$26.99 AUD
Category: History
"This will be the most refreshing, entertaining history of England you'll have ever read. Certainly, the funniest. Because David Mitchell will explain how it is not all names, dates or ungraspable historical headwinds, but instead show how it's really just a bunch of random stuff that happened with a fe ...Show more
Unsolved Aviation Mysteries - Five Strange Tales of Air and Sea by Keith McCloskey
$22.50 AUD
Category: History
CONSPIRACY theories of sabotage, murder and even UFOs flourish around the greatest unsolved mysteries of aviation from the twentieth century. This account of the most intriguing loose ends from aeronautical history provides the known details of five great mysteries and the best (and most colourful) atte ...Show more