All young persons contemplating ‘a life in the law’ as a career should read this book, ideally when they are about sixteen, to allow adequate time to switch to dentistry, say, or engineering. But whatever your age, Chester ...

At 9.40pm on 23rd October 1942, in the North African desert, the heavens lit up with myriad flashes from more than one thousand guns, and the roar of the British Commonwealth Eighth Army's opening barrage rolled out towards ...

Amanda Lagueson's "Convict Words" is a dictionary of the characteristic or salient words of early colonial discourse, the lexis of the convict system and transportation, which survived until 1840 in New South Wales, 1852 ...

These two unusual books reflect on aspects of the prisoner-of-war experience in Singapore, Thailand and Burma during World War II that have not been much canvassed in Australia. "One Fourteenth of an Elephant", Ian Denys ...

Here are two sumptuously produced keepsakes serving very different purposes. "Beyond 40" describes itself as 'Forty Years of Dreams', but actually offers one year’s worth of images that the Australian Ballet wants to ...

Penelope Hetherington has found that in nineteenth-century Western Australian colonial society childhood is not easily delineated. Her solution to this problem of definition is to look at how childhood was defined in ...

Singapore and Malaysia have a lot in common beyond a shared border and a shared colonial heritage. Both countries have been dominated for decades by one strong leader - Lee Kuan Yew in Singapore, Dr Mahathir Mohamad in ...

Each time a Western nation goes to war, its citizens are locked in sometimes bitter argument, as we have recently been. When the war is over we no longer reflect on those arguments, as though we learnt nothing or forgot ...

It has been raining all week, persistent drizzle unlike the brief downpours that are more typical of Beirut. The city is slumbering. El-Zein am staying with his parents. His father goes out less often. His mother is snuggled ...