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A Bookshop in Wartime by Jenny Horsfield
Category: History
In April 1938 a small bookshop opened for business in Canberra, at a time when Australia's federal capital was still a country town and Burley Griffin's vision for its future had been defeated by years of war, depression and political indifference. In an era which was a golden age for books and booksell ...Show more
Voices Beyond the Suburbs by Jenny Horsfield
Category: Australian History
In 1920, eight men who had served in the Great War took up soldier settler blocks at Tuggeranong, on land that had formerly belonged to the Cunningham family. They faced years of uncertain markets, isolation, drought, weed infestation and the rabbit plague, in a decade that was to test the strongest of ...Show more
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