A History, by telling off professional historians – and laments the “cultural confusion” of our present moment.

The property includes a selection of eleven penal sites, among the thousands established by the British Empire on Australian soil in the 18 th and 19 th centuries. The sites are spread across ...

What began as a place of exile turned into a land of opportunity. Built by those once sent away, it stands today as proof ...

Tasmania's convict heritage was officially recognized by UNESCO last month, when 11 Australian convict sites, five of which are located in the southernmost state of Tasmania, were added to the UNESCO ...

Born in 1782 in Surrey, England, Vaux was the son of a London butler and grandson of a lawyer. He was relatively well-educated, and worked as a draper’s apprentice, a clerk in a legal office and in ...

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The book is a response to that growing wave of revisionist history that Abbott says has left many Australians ambivalent about our nation’s past and demonised many of our early explorers and nation ...