Collection: Reference

Electro-plated butter coolers, flower stands, claret jugs, fenders, mangles and corn crushers were a few of the items gracing the well-conducted Australian colonial home. These were supplied by the firm of James McEwan and Co., established in 1852.

A leader of the American Pop Art movement in the 1960s, along with such contemporaries as Jim Dine, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol

All the greatest battleships from World War I to the 1991 Gulf War.

Begins with the primitive boats of the 18th and 19th centuries and goes on to nuclear submarines. Sidebars on submarine accidents, weapons technology, sensors, oceanography, rescue missions and many other other aspects of war...