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BOOKS ABOUT MELBOURNE (SEE INDIGENOUS BOOKS BELOW)

  • Bearbrass, Imagining Early Melbourne, Robyn Annear, Melbourne: Black Inc., 2005.
  • Melbourne Remade. Seamus O’Hanlon. The Inner City Since the 1970s. Arcade Publications 2010.
  • A Guide to Melbourne Architecture by Philip Goad, Watermark Press.
  • 1835: The Founding Of Melbourne And The Conquest Of Australia by James Boyce 2011.
  • Essential but Unplanned: the Story of Melbourne’s Lanes, Bate, Weston, Main Ridge: Loch Haven Books 1994.
  • The Birth of Melbourne, Tim Flannery, The Text Publishing Company, 2002.
  • Radical Melbourne 1&2, Jeff and Jill Sparrow, 2002.
  • Yarra. A Diverting History of Melbourne’s Murky River. Kristin Otto, Text, 2005.
  • A City Lost and Found. Whelan The Wrecker’s Melbourne, Robyn Annear, Black Inc. 20
    Melbourne, Sophie Cunningham 2011.
  • Design City, Melbourne, Leon Van Schaik, Wiley-Academy, 2006
  • Secret History of Queer Melbourne, Willot, Murdoch, Marshall, ALGA, 2011.
  • The Land Boomers, Michael Cannon 1966: Melbourne University Press, Melbourne.
  • Chronicles of Early Melbourne 1835-51 E. Finn, 1888, 2007
  • The Old Melbourne Cemetery 1837 – 1922, Marjorie Morgan, Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies in 1982.
  • Old Pioneers Memorial History of Melbourne, Isaac Selby, 1924.
  • A Walking Guide to Melbourne’s Monuments, Ronald T. Ridley, Melbourne University Press, 1996.
  • Liardet’s Water-colours of Early Melbourne, Introduction and captions by Susan Adams, edited by Weston Bate, Melbourne University Press 1972.
  • Old Melbourne Town, Before the Gold Rush, Thomas Nelson , Australia, Limited. Cannon, M., 1991
  • Melbourne The Biography of a City, W.H. Newnham, F.W. Chesire, 1956.
  • A New City: Photographs of Melbourne’s Land boom, Ian Morrison, The Megunyah Press, 2003.
  • Characters: Cultural Stories Revealed Through Typography by Stephen Banham 2011.
  • The Place for a Village. How Nature has shaped the city of Melbourne. Gary Presland.
  • Melbourne’s Yesterdays, 1851-1901, A Photographic Record, Don Bennetts, Souvenir Press (Australia) Pty Ltd 1976.
  • A Pictorial Guide to Australian Architecture, Styles and terms from 1788 to the present by Richard Appleby, Robert Irving. Peter Reynolds, Angus and Robertson.
  • Walking Melbourne, A National Trust guide to the historic and architectural landmarks of central Melbourne by Rohan Storey.
  • Melbourne: The City’s History and Development Lewis, Miles, City of Melbourne, 1995
  • The Streets of Melbourne From Early Photographs, Peter McIntosh, published by H&WT c1988.
  • Devouring Melbourne by Monique Bayer
  • The James Flood Book of Early Melbourne, H H Paynting (ed), published c197
  • Photographs of Melbourne’s Land Boom, Ian Morrison (ed), A New City: Carlton (Victoria) 2003.
  • 150 Years of Australian Architecture, Philip Goad, ‘Bates Smart: Fishermans Bend, 2004.
  • Sun Pictures of Victoria Fauchery & Daintree, Reilly & Carew Currey O’Neil Ross, 1983.

BOOKS ABOUT INDIGENOUS HISTORY

  • Aboriginal Melbourne: the lost land of the Kulin people,Gary Presland,  McPhee Gribble, Ringwood, Vic. 1994.
  • Yalukit Willam. The river People of Port Phillip. Meyer Eidelson, 2014, City Port Phillip
  • The Melbourne Dreaming. A Guide to Importance places past and present, Meyer Eidelson, 2014, Aboriginal Studies Press.
  • Aboriginal Victorians. A history since 1800, Richard Broome, Allen and Unwin 2005.
  • I Succeeded Once. The Aboriginal Protectorate on the Mornington Peninsula, Marie Fels 2011.
  • Meerreeng-an. Here is my Country. The Story of Aboriginal Victoria told through art. Chris Keeler and Vicky Couzens 2010.
  • 1835: The Founding Of Melbourne And The Conquest Of Australia by James Boyce 2011.
  • The Australian Aborigines, A. P. Elkin. Angus and Robertson, 1986.
  • Wild Medicine in Australia, A.B. and JW Cribb, Collins, 1988.
  • Wild Food in Australia, A.B. and JW Cribb, Collins, 1988.
  • Archaeology of the Dreamtime, J Flood, Angus and Robertson, 2001.
  • Remains to be Seen. Archaeological insights into Australian pre-history. David Frankel.

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