Collection: Local History Reference

"As Melbourne correspondent for The Bulletin, the national weekly magazine, Keith wrote under the pseudonym of 'Batman'. In an introduction to this collection of his best writing form 'The Bully", he tells how his 'moonlighting' began, and how he was found out."--Cover.

"The general aim of this study is to promote a more intensive "urban" development of the area than has been emphasised or implemented in the past, while maintaining its use as a public place"--page 2.

There has always been suspicion and scepticism about the Treaty John Batman claims to have made with the Melbourne Aboriginal people. Using a little known eyewitness account by famed Aboriginal Elder William Barak, Batmans outlandish claims and fabrications are at last laid bare in Jim Poulters c...

Arthur Calwell was born in West Melbourne in 1896. His father was a police officer. He attended school in North Melbourne, and was a president of North Melbourne Football Club

'Just a little way down Collins Street, beside Henry Buck's, is a perpetually dark but sheltered laneway called Equitable Place. Here you'll find a number of places to eat and drink. Settle yourself in the window of one, shut your eyes, and picture this scene of yore ...' In this much-loved book,...

In 'Bearbrass', Robyn Annear resurrects the village that was early Melbourne - from the arrival of white settlers in 1835 until the first gold rushes shook the town - and brings it to life in vivid colour. "Bearbrass" was one of the local names by which early Melbourne was known and Annear provid...

The lives of four young people interact in Melbourne in 1965.