Mary Booth: The Woman who Shaped the Anzac Legend
Author/editor: Raelene Frances and Bruce Scates
Year published: 2026
Mary Booth was a woman of startling contradictions - one of Australia's first female doctors, a pioneering feminist and nationalist, she was also a staunch political conservative and a devoted empire loyalist and nationalist. She championed infant welfare, war commemoration, environmental reform,…
Fatal Confession: A Girl's Murder, a Man's Execution and the Fitton Case
Author/editor: Carolyn Strange
Year published: 2025
When the body of thirteen-year-old Linda Lampkin was found, raped and strangled, on Toronto’s industrial waterfront in 1956, locals feared a sex maniac was on the loose. Within a day, detectives announced the arrest of Robert Fitton. He was charged with murder, although Fitton claimed the sex was…
Stalin's Liquidation Game
Author/editor: Filip Slaveski and Yurii Shapoval
Year published: 2025
Millions of innocent people were arrested in Stalin’s Soviet Union during the 1930s in different waves of mass repression. Under violent interrogation, many were forced to confess to crimes they did not commit. Rather than save their lives, as the interrogators had promised, confession was usually…
Playtime: A History of Australian Childhood
Author/editor: Emily Gallagher
Year published: 2025
This groundbreaking book is a history of children's play and imagination in Australia between 1890 and the Second World War. It is a story about the generations that grew up at a time when nation and empire were being reimagined amid the globalising currents of war, technology and trade. Theirs…
The Wild Australia Show
Author/editor: Paul Memmott, Maria Nugent, Michael Aird, Lindy Allen, Chantal Knowles, Jonathan Richards
Year published: 2025
The Wild Australia Show was a troupe of 27 Aboriginal performers recruited from northern Queensland in the 1890s for a world tour that would culminate at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Those grand plans were ultimately dashed, and the troupe only performed in Brisbane, Sydney…
The Red Cross’s Public Health Turn
Author/editor: Romain Fathi
Year published: 2025
This book is about the Cannes Medical Conference of April 1919 and its long-lasting impacts in the humanitarian space. In the aftermath of the First World War, as the world order was being redesigned, this conference served to shift the Red Cross movement towards peacetime and public health work.…
Clever Men, How worlds collided on the scientific expedition to Arnhem Land of 1948
Author/editor: Martin Thomas
Year published: 2025
What really happened when Charles Mountford led a quarrelsome team of Australian and American scientists to explore traditional Aboriginal life in Arnhem Land in 1948.'Here was I with the status of little more than a telephone mechanic, taking out the biggest scientific expedition in history'... In…