Colonial Australia

Below is a list of the most popular titles on Colonial Australia to be loaned out at Yarra Libraries in 2011.

Robert Dowling: Tasmanian son of empire by John James Jones 
Red coat dreaming: how colonial Australia embraced the British Army by Craig Wilcox

Australia's birthstain: the startling legacy of the convict era by Babette Smith

Colonial cousins: a surprising history of connections between India and Australia by Joyce P. Westrip

Australia's empire - edited by Deryck M. Schreuder and Stuart Ward

Gangland Australia: colonial criminals to the Carlton crew – James Morton

Iron in the blood: convicts and commandants in colonial Australia by Alan Tucker

Through Australian eyes: colonial perceptions of Imperial Britain by Andrew Hassam
   
Great escapes by convicts in colonial Australia by Warwick Hirst
Irish women in colonial Australia – edited by Trevor McClaughlin

The Australian colonial house: architecture and society in New South Wales 1788-1842 by James Broadbent

Visible women: female immigrants in colonial Australia – edited by Eric Richards

Conrad Martens: on the Beagle and in Australia by Susanna De Vries-Evans     

Australian colonial architecture by Philip Cox

Always a lady: courageous women of colonial Australia by Nance Donkin
Colonial voices: letters, diaries, journalism and other accounts of nineteenth century Australia – edited by Elizabeth Webby

A bright & savage land scientists in colonial Australia -by Ann Moyal

Death or liberty: rebels and radicals transported to Australia 1788-1868 by Tony Moore

The fatal shore: a history of the transportation of convicts to Australia, 1787-1868 by Robert Hughes
    


Further information

Theary Sindel
Carlton Library and Reading Services Team Leader
9426 5603
Theary.Sindel@yarracity.vic.gov.au

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