by NRB | 22 Feb 2024 | Non-fiction |
Graeme Davison’s book is an elegant waltz through one family’s history and its connection to large events, from immigration to world wars. One of Australia’s leading historians, Graeme Davison notes in his introduction that ‘history is usually written forwards’...
by NRB | 2 Jun 2020 | Non-fiction |
Graeme Davison’s City Dreamers celebrates the visionaries of urban planning and looks at how their dreams have evolved. Historian Graeme Davison has spent much of his academic life thinking about cities, as is evident from his many essays, and especially from...
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