Collection: Reference

Leaving Portsmouth for New South Wales in 1798 it was a voyage that cost nearly 100 lives. A detailed account of the voyage from the diary of William Noah, a convict, and the fortunes of some of his shipmate survivors whose lives were linked with theirs. The book includes a list of the officers a...

Profiles Disney films of the 1920s, showing how they laid the foundation for later animation techniques and conventions.

Walters is one of Australia's finest portrait painters, having won the Archibald Prize in 1979. He is also a talented abstract artist and a highly gifted, award winning designer.

A global survey of modern warfare, from the first fervid days of the French Revolution of 1789 to the bloody stalemate that ended the Iran-Iraq war in 1988.

Covers topics as diverse as advertising in World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution, the Spanish Civil War, Germany and Occupied Europe in World War II, and Vietnam. A comprehensive yet accessible resource for anyone interested in history or graphic design