Australasian & Pacific History

This is a history of Australia, measured by the gun. From bushrangers and soldiers to the many farmers and recreational shooters shooting animals a...

A renowned biographer compares the lives and times of American outlaw Billy the Kid and his Australian counterpart Ned Kelly The oft-told exploits ...

A renowned biographer compares the lives and times of American outlaw Billy the Kid and his Australian counterpart Ned Kelly The oft-told exploits ...

In September 1944, to prevent Japanese air interdiction against General MacArthur's planned invasion of the Southern Philippines, the Americans att...

The brutality of Japanese soldiers towards both allied prisoners of war and millions of civilians in Asia during the Second World War was one of th...

If you centre a globe on Kiritimati (Christmas Island), all you see around it is a vast expanse of ocean. Islands of various sizes float in view wh...

An environmental, social and cultural history of our association with the Hauraki Gulf tells the story of the gulf through three layers: the underl...

In the 1940s Australian officials searched the displaced persons camps of war-ravaged Europe to select able-bodied, fair and hardworking Lithuanian...

Some photographs change the way we think about history and the world. As a student many years ago, Jane Lydon was shocked by the photograph on the ...

For much of the twentieth century the names Leslie Walford and Dora Byrne were synonymous with style and glamour. Walford was the flamboyant, go-to...