History related with and without glaring omissions because it seemed the proper thing to do at the time and the phrase "politically incorrect" had yet to be uttered for the first time. Missionary zeal at it's best and reflections from far-flung locations.
Medieval history not included here.

	David Livingstone book Info to add here c1875
	Guide to Australian War Memorial- Canberra edited by ? Halstead Press, Sydney 1962 Lists the Board of Management and opening hours for prospective visitors. Information on rooms and their contents including the stain glass windows. Some of the major figures have small biographies or histories included. Includes actual war memoribilia as well as war in Australian art.
	On The Foreign Policy Of The Soviet State by V. I. Lenin Progress Publishers, Moscow. (date of print in Russian) Letters and reports on what the Soviet believes. Printed on the frontispiece- "Workers of all Countries, unite!" The first heading on the contents page reads "The Struggle of the Soviet People to Withdraw From The War and Achieve a Democratic Peace." Last letter dated at 1922. Receipt inside book dated at 1965, possibly bill of sale, in Russian, so unsure. Notes and subject index at back.
	Gods, Graves and Scholars The Story of Archaeology by C. W. Ceram Translated from the German by E. B. Garside and Sophie Wilkins Book Club Associates, London. 1971 Hardcover. Since the original publication in German in 1949, it has been translated into 26 languages. Nice B&W photography of artifacts including Tutankhamen's unwrapped head. Includes "Books That Cannot Be Written Yet" (on mysteries still unsolved) and chronological tables, bibliogrophy and indexes at back.
	Great Lives, Great Deeds The Readers Digest Association The Reader's Digest Association Pty. Ltd. Sydney. 1965 Short stories on prominent people in history, including a lengthy one on Jesus called "The Man Nobody Knows" focusing on him as a man rather than the religious stories usually associated with him. Others include everyone from Cleopatra, Napolean, Dame Nellie Melba, Albert Einstein, Socrates to Buddha and Thomas Edison. Easy, interesting reading. Colour pictures.
	Wages, Price and Profit by Karl Marx Foreign Language Press, Peking. 1970 Soft cover. The notes at the end are based on the Chinese edition in April 1964. Includes chapters on Wages & Currency, Value & Labour, Profit Is Made By Selling A Commodity at It's Value, and "Main Cases of Attempts at Raising Wages of Resisting Their Fall. Section 1 is from an address by Karl Marx delivered in English at the sessions of the General Council of First International, 1865.
	History of The Australian Bushrangers. Volume 1 by George. E. Boxall Cornstalk Publishing Company. Sydney. 1924 In Two Volumes. Hardcover. Includes reproduction of painting showing a Proclamation to the Aborigines. First edition printed in 1899, 5th edition. Includes The First Bank Robbery In Australia, Bushrangers and Pirates, The Art of Politeness as Exhibited by Bushrangers, The Riot at Lambing Flat, and The Great Escort Robbery.
	Highroads of History by Thomas Nelson and Sons Thomas Nelson & Sons. London. 1916 Second book in the "Royal School Series." Hard cloth cover. Illustrated by the great Historical Painters. Aimed at younger readers. Starts with "King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table," "How the English Became Christian," "The Children's Crusade," Robin Hood and his Merrie Men," "The Black Prince," "How Canada was Won." Includes poetry and lesson summaries.
	Heroes of European History by A. R. Hope Moncrieff The Gresham Publishing Company. London. n.d. Hardcover with gold embossed spine and elaborately embossed front cover. 9 illustrations, coloured frontispiece. Short chapters on prominent figures in European history including the well known Trojans, Napolean, Caesar, Charlemagne to some slightly less well known The Gracchi, The Cid, Frederick Barbarossa, Conradin, Epaminondas and Lycurgus.
	The Letters of Horace Walpole- Earl of Orford Bohn's English Gentleman's Library edited by Peter Cunningham Henry G Bohn. London. MDCCCLXVI Horace Walpole's Letters Vol IV. Apparently in nine volumes, this is book four containing letters between the periods of 1762 to 1766. Personal and other more important letters. Lovely engravings. Interesting historical reading.
	The Many Faces of Communism Edited by Harry Schwartz Berkley Publishing Corporation. New York. 1962 According to the first page- "for up-to-date, accurate, interesting and factual information on Russia, this book is of prime importance," and covers "Russia and it's Satellites," "Status of Young Poeple in the Soviet Union" and "Science- Education- Religion." Also discusses intelectual and cultural life under communism.
	The Close of the Middle Ages 1273-1494 by R. Lodge, M.A., LL.D. Rivingtons, London. 1915 Hardcover with gold embossed spine. Includes chronological table, index and a list of maps. No other illustrations. Starts with "Germany and the Empire After the Interregnum 1273-1313" and ends with "Italy and the Renaissance." Appendix includes many genealogical tables.
	The Complete Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersol by "the compiler"? J. Regan & Co., Free Speech Publishers, Chicago. n.d. Hardcover. With preface by the compiler. No date but very old. Of a fairly high religious content although not entirely. Starts with "The Mistakes of Moses," and includes "The Chinese God," Ingersol's Response To Toast," "The Declaration of Independance," "Speech at the Soldier's Re-union, 1876 "Heretics and Heresies" and "Oration at a Child's Grave."
	Mo's Memoirs by Roy Rene Reed & Harris. Melbourne 1945 Hardcover. "To my public, and to my country, Australia, I dedicate this book". Apparently about a great stage comedian and National Figure. Written my Rene as his stage charcter "Mo" who is possibly a clown of some kind. Shows some family photos in B&W.
	Young Bess by Margaret Irwin Chatto & Windus. London. 1948. Hardcover. With part of dustcover glued to front. Frontispiece shows B&W reproduction of "The Lady Elizabeth as a Young Girl" by gracious permission of His Majesty the King. Told in conversational story style like a novel. Thanks to Lady Helen Seymore for the lively help she gave, with books and household papers of the Seymour family.
	The End of the Beginning War Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill, C.H., M.P. compiled by Charles Eade Cassell and Company, London. 1943 First edition. Red hardcover with B&W photo of Churchill inside the front cover and 5 half-tone plates. Churchill is also author to 17 other books at this time. Speeches on everything from "Anzac Day Messages to Australia" to "Birthday Congratulations to Premier Stalin on his 63rd birthday." And so much more.
	A History of England Modern Knowledge History. Volume 8 by David Somervell Ernest Benn Ltd, London. 1932 Hardcover of Benn's Sixpenny Library. First printed 1927, 6th edition. Contains condensations of the History of England, History of Ireland, History of Scotland, History of Wales, History of London and British Empire. Written by Englishman with a districtly English bias.
	Brasses by J. M. Ward B.A., F.R.Hist.S The Cambridge Manuals of Science & Literature Cambridge at the University Press, 1912 Small hardcover. Looks at memorial brasses and what the clothing and poses tell us about people, their jobs and lives. This is the same J. Ward who founded Abbey Park in the UK which led to the collections at the Abbey Museum of Art & Archaeology at Caboolture in Queensland.
	English Costume by Dion Clayton Calthrop Adam & Charles Black London · MCMVII

 

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