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	Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States By John Zubrzycki Reviewed by Phillip O’Brien
	Ghost of the British Museum: A True Story of Colonial Loot and Restless Objects By Noah Angell Reviewed by Jo Clyne
	A History Teaching Toolbox By Russel Tarr Reviewed by Robert Panara
	The Cleopatras: The Forgotten Queens of Egypt By Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones Reviewed by Kaye De Petro
	The Lost Princess: Women Writers and the History of Classic Fairy Tales By Anne E. Duggan Reviewed by Kaye De Petro
	Aboriginal Victorians: A History Since 1800 By Richard Broome Reviewed by Alexandra Pierce
	The Doctor of Hiroshima By Dr Michihiko Hachiya Reviewed by Phillip O’Brien, McKinnon Secondary College
	The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World By Bettany Hughes Reviewed by Adrian Puckering, Ilim College
	Between the Dances: World War 2 Women Tell Their Stories By Jacqueline Dinan Reviewed by Kaye De Petro, Education and Services Officer, HTAV
	Her Sunburnt Country: The Extraordinary Literary Life of Dorothea Mackellar By Deborah FitzGerald Reviewed by Pam Cupper
	Sneaky Little Revolutions: Selected Essays of Charmian Clift Edited by Nadia Wheatley Reviewed by Linda Templeton, Lavalla Catholic College
	The Boy Who Stepped Through Time By Anna Ciddor Reviewed by Jo Clyne, Hellenic Museum
	Pax: War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age By Tom Holland Reviewed by Kaye De Petro, Education and Services Officer, HTAV
	Dreamers and Schemers: A Political History of Australia By Frank Bongiorno November 2022 La Trobe University Press in conjunction with Black Inc. Reviewed by Sue Rabbitt Roff
	War and Punishment: The Story of Russian Oppression and Ukrainian Resistance By Mikhail Zygar July 2023 Hachette Australia Reviewed by Daniel O’Shea, Star of the Sea College
	After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris between the Wars By Helen Rappaport March 2022 Scribe Publications Reviewed by Kaye De Petro, HTAV
	Forgotten War By Henry Reynolds July 2022 NewSouth Publishing Reviewed by Dr Casey Raeside, Assumption College Kilmore
	Fury to Hell By Kathryn Spurling September 2022 New Holland Publishers Reviewed by Kaye De Petro, HTAV
	Failed Ambitions: Kew Cottages and Changing Ideas of Intellectual Disabilities By Lee-Ann Monk and David Henderson June 2023 Monash University Publishing Reviewed by Rachel Towns, St John’s Regional College
	The Emperor’s Grace: Untold Stories of the Australians Enslaved in Japan during World War II By Mark Baker March 2021 Monash University Publishing Reviewed by Linda Letten, St Paul’s Anglican Grammar School
	Bennelong and Phillip: A History Unravelled By Kate Fullagar October 2023 Scribner Australia Reviewed by Alexandra Pierce, Australian Living Peace Museum
	Inkflower By Suzy Zail July 2023 Walker Books Australia Reviewed by Kaye De Petro, HTAV
	Australia: A New More Inclusive History By Michael S. Pahoff September 2021 Silverbird Publishing Reviewed by Katrina Burge, Upwey High School
	Operation Hurricane By Paul Grace July 2023 Hachette Australia Reviewed by Sue Rabbitt Roff, University of Dundee
	Australia’s Secret Army By Michael Veitch August 2022 Hachette Australia Reviewed by Kaye De Petro, Education and Services Officer, HTAV
	Women and Whitlam: Revisiting the Revolution Edited by Michelle Arrow April 2023 NewSouth Publishing Reviewed by Dr Hannah Viney, Monash University
	Sisters in Resistance: How a German Spy, a Banker’s Wife and Mussolini’s Daughter Outwitted the Nazis By Tilar Mazzeo August 2022 Scribe Publications Reviewed by Kaye De Petro, Education and Services Officer, HTAV
	Australia and the Pacific: A History By Ian Hoskins October 2021 NewSouth Publishing Reviewed by Nigel Page, Anglican Church Grammar School
	The Long Song of Tchaikovsky Street: A Russian Adventure By Pieter Waterdrinker, translated by Paul Evans February 2022 Scribe Publications Reviewed by Kaye De Petro, Education and Services Officer, HTAV
	The Years of Terror: Banbu-deen: Kulin and Colonists at Port Phillip 1835–1851 By Marguerita Stephens, with Fay Stewart-Muir August 2023 Australian Scholarly Publishing Reviewed by Jack T. Norris, The University of Melbourne
	Merlyn: The Life of Merlyn Baillieu Myer By Michael Shmith with research by Dr Stella M Barber September 2021 Hardie Grant Books Reviewed by Kaye De Petro, Education and Services Officer, HTAV
	Made In Lancashire By Richard Turner June 2021 Monash University Publishing Reviewed by Stephanie Tarn, Heathdale Christian College
	Adrift In Melbourne: Seven Walks with Robyn Annear By Robyn Annear 2021 Text Publishing Reviewed by Cat Jones, Strathmore Secondary College
	Fatal Contact: How Epidemics Nearly Wiped Out Australia’s First Peoples By Peter Dowling 2021 Monash University Publishing Reviewed by Nigel Page, Anglican Church Grammar School
	Pharaohs of the Sun: How Egypt’s Despots and Dreamers Drove the Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun’s Dynasty By Guy de la Bédoyére 2022 Little Brown Reviewed by Jack Norris, Lincoln College, University of Oxford
	Coastal Guide to Nature and History 3: Western Victoria, Point Lonsdale to the South Australian Border By Graham Patterson 2022 Coastal Guide Books Reviewed by Jack T. Norris, University of Melbourne
	Black, White and Exempt: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Lives under Exemption By Lucinda Aberdeem and Jennifer Jones, eds. 2021 Aboriginal Studies Press Reviewed by Nigel Page, Anglican Church Grammar School
	Votes for Women! The Story of Nellie, Rose and Mary By Mark Wilson 2022 Lothian Children’s Books Reviewed by Holly Bracken, Bayswater Secondary College
	Junior Atlas of Indigenous Australia By Macquarie Dictionary 2022 Macquarie/Pan Macmillan Reviewed by Kara Taylor, Irymple Secondary College
	The World: A Family History By Simon Sebag Montefiore 2022 Weidenfeld and Nicolson (London) Reviewed by Margaret Simkin, The Hamilton and Alexandra College
	Pharaohs of the Sun: How Egypt’s Despots and Dreamers Drove the Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun’s Dynasty By Guy de la Bédoyére 2022 Little Brown Reviewed by Jack Norris, Lincoln College, University of Oxford
	Gudyarra: The First Wiradyuri War of Resistance—The Bathurst War, 1822–1824 By Stephen Gapps 2021 NewSouth Publishing Reviewed by Selena Prior, Federation University
	Lessons from History Edited by Carolyn Holbrook, Lyndon Megarrity and David Lowe 2022 NewSouth Publishing Review by Matthew Allanby, Xavier College
	Symbols of Australia: Imagining a Nation Edited by Melissa Harper and Richard White 2021 NewSouth Publishing Reviewed by Kara Taylor, Irymple Secondary College
	Knowing History in Schools Edited by Arthur Chapman 2021 UCL Press Reviewed by Phillip O’Brien, McKinnon Secondary College
	The Twelve Caesars By Mary Beard 2021 Princeton University Press Reviewed by George Puckering, Bacchus Marsh Grammar
	Hell No! We Won’t Go! Resistance to Conscription in Post War Australia By Bobbie Oliver 2022 Interventions Reviewed by Alexandra Pierce
	William Cooper: An Aboriginal Life By Bain Attwood 2021 Melbourne University Press Reviewed by Dr Stephen Powell, Merici College, Canberra
	No Regard for the Truth By Darren Arnott BookPOD 2019 Review by Sean Reid, Emerald Secondary College
	A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto By China Miéville 2022 Head of Zeus Reviewed by Alexandra Pierce
	Not Playing the Game: Sport and Australia’s Great War By Xavier Fowler 2021 Melbourne University Press Reviewed by Cat Jones, Strathmore Secondary College
	The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris By Colin Jones 2021 Oxford University Press Reviewed by Pam Cupper, retired History teacher
	Twisted History Board game by Cartamundi Reviewed by Dr David Waldron, Federation University
	The Story of Australia By William Finch 2021-2022 Australian Geographic Reviewed by Kaye De Petro, History Teachers’ Association of Victoria
	Into the Heart of Tasmania By Rebe Taylor 2017 Melbourne University Press Paperback, 270 pages, B&W photographs Reviewed by Katrina Burge
	The Lost Child of Chernobyl By Helen Bate 2021 Otter-Barry Books Hardback, 56 pages, illustrated Reviewed by Virginia Millard, Featherbrook P–9 College
	Is Dark Emu Good History? Helping Students Investigate a Controversial Book on Australian Aboriginal History in the Classroom By Robert Lewis 2020 Eagle Resources Paperback, 35 pages, illustrations Reviewed by Dr Adrian Jones OAM (La Trobe University) and Dr Jo Clyne (HTAV)
	Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved By Darren Naish and Paul M. Barrett 2018 CSIRO Publishing 224 pages, illustrations Reviewed by Catherine Jones, Strathmore Secondary College
	Wilam: A Birrarung Story By Aunty Joy Murphy and Andrew Kelly Illustrated by Lisa Kennedy 2019 Black Dog Books Hardback, 40 pages, illustrated Reviewed by Jack Norris, Old Treasury Building and Monash Indigenous Studies Centre
	Good Humanities 7, 8 and 9: Victorian Curriculum By Ben Lawless, Danielle O’Leary and Peter van Noorden 2020 Matilda Education Reviewed by Kara Taylor, Irymple College
	Welcome to Country (Youth Edition) By Marcia Langton 2019 Paperback, 225 pages Reviewed by Eliza Lowes, Jennings Street School
	People of the River By Grace Karskens 2020 Allen & Unwin Paperback, 688 pages Reviewed by Hollie Griffiths, Prahran High School
	Truganini: Journey through the Apocalypse By Cassandra Pybus 2020 Allen & Unwin, Paperback, 336 pages Reviewed by Selena Prior, Federation University
	Vida: A Woman for Our Times By Jacqueline Kent 2020 Viking Paperback, 336 pages Reviewed by Ingrid Perkins, St Patrick’s College, Ballarat
	On a Barbarous Coast By Craig Cormick and Harold Ludwick Allen & Unwin 2020 Paperback, 320 pages Reviewed by Cat Jones, Strathmore Secondary College
	Vagabond Adventures in Asia and the Pacific By John Stanley James, edited and introduced by Michael Cannon 2018 Michael Cannon Paperback, 222 pages Reviewed by Paul Michael Donovan, Federation University
	The Iliad Adapted by Gareth Hinds 2019 Candlewick Press Paperback and hardback, 270 pages Illustrated Reviewed by Dr Katrina Burge, teacher candidate, University of Melbourne
	Teaching: Making a Difference By Rick Churchill, Sally Godinho, Nicola F. Johnson et al. 2018, 4th edn John Wiley & Sons Australia E-book and paperback (632 pages) Reviewed by Dr Katrina Burge, teacher candidate, University of Melbourne
	Between the Murray and the Sea: Aboriginal Archaeology in Southeastern Australia By David Frankel 2017 Sydney University Press Paperback and e-book, 282 pages, illustrations, photographs Reviewed by Jack Norris, Monash Indigenous Studies Centre
	The Palace Letters By Jenny Hocking 2020 Scribe Media Paperback, 288 pages Reviewed by Cat Jones, Strathmore Secondary College
	The Vagabond as Social Reformer: Inside Melbourne’s Asylums and Hospitals By John Stanley James, edited and introduced by Michael Cannon 2020 Michael Cannon Paperback, 239 pages Reviewed by Dr David Waldron, Federation University
	The Cost of War By Stephen Garton 2020 Sydney University Press 308 pages Reviewed by Sophia Marsden-Smith, Williamstown High School
	Aboriginal Biocultural Knowledge in South-eastern Australia: Perspectives of Early Colonists By Fred Cahir, Ian D. Clark and Philip A. Clarke 2018 CSIRO Publishing 360 pages Reviewed by Rachel Towns, St John’s Regional College, Dandenong
	On Red Earth Walking: The Pilbara Aboriginal Strike, Western Australia 1946–1949 By Anne Scrimgeour 2020 Monash University Publishing 528 pages Reviewed by Richard Blandford, Scotch College
	Geoffrey Blainey: Writer, Historian, Controversialist By Richard Allsop 2019 Monash University Publishing 304 pages Reviewed by Sophia Marsden-Smith Williamstown High School
	Slow Catastrophes: Living with Drought in Australia By Rebecca Jones 2017 Monash University Publishing 352 pages Reviewed by Bill Lewis Haileybury College
	The Dam by David Almond 2018 Sydney Walker Studio Hardback 32 pages Reviewed by Ingrid Perkins St Patrick’s College, Ballarat
	The Good Son: A Story from the First World War, Told in Miniature By Pierre-Jacques Ober 2019 Sydney Candlewick Studio Hardback 104 pages Reviewed by Ingrid Perkins St Patrick’s College, Ballarat
	Donkeys Can’t Fly on Planes 2012 Melbourne Kids’ Own Publishing 53 pages Reviewed by Alicia Dodd Salesian College, Sunbury
	Geelong’s Changing Landscape: Ecology, Development and Conservation by David Jones and Phillip Roös (Eds.) 2019 Melbourne CSIRO Publishing Paperback 344 pages Reviewed by Katrina Burge
	Fighting the Kaiser Reich: Australia’s Epic Within the Great War by Bruce Gaunson 2018 Melbourne Hybrid Publishers Paperback 526 pages Reviewed by Mary Fisher Modbury High School
	Convict Colony by David Hill 2019 Allen & Unwin 368 pages Reviewed by Jane Herbert Mansfield Secondary College
	Living on Stolen Land by Ambelin Kwaymullina 2020 Broome, Western Australia Magabala Books Flexibound 63 pages Reviewed by Alexandra Pierce Brunswick Secondary College
	One Careless Night by Christina Booth 2019 Sydney Black Dog Books Hardback 40 pages Reviewed by Ingrid Perkins St Patrick’s College, Ballarat
	The Anzac Billy by Claire Saxby 2019 Sydney Black Dog Books Hardback 32 pages Reviewed by Ingrid Perkins St Patrick’s College, Ballarat
	Mallee Country: Land, People, History by Richard Broome, Charles Fahey, Andrea Gaynor and Katie Holmes 2020 Melbourne Monash University Publishing 415 pages Reviewed by Kara Taylor Irymple Secondary College
	Cazaly: The Legend by Robert Allen 2017 Melbourne Slattery Media Group Hardback 428 pages Reviewed by Cat Jones Australian Sports Museum
	‘A Secondary Education for All’? A History of State Secondary Schooling in Victoria by John Andrews and Deborah Towns 2017 Melbourne Australian Scholarly Publishing Paperback 394 pages Reviewed by Jo Dryden St Mary of the Angels
	Committed to Learning: A History of Education at The University of Melbourne by Juliet Flesch 2017 Melbourne The Miegunyah Press Hardback 400 pages Reviewed by Sophia Marsden-Smith Williamstown High School
	Let My People Go: The Untold Story of the Australia and the Soviet Jews 1959–89 by Sam Lipski and Suzanne D. Rutland 2015 Melbourne Hybrid Publishers Paperback 296 pages Reviewed by Sophia Marsden-Smith Williamstown High School
	Digging Up a Village: A Book about Archaeology by David Frankel 2019 Melbourne Paperback, 52 pages Illustrations Reviewed by Stephen Frigo Luther College, Croydon
	Dominion: The History of England, Volume 5 by Peter Ackroyd 2018 New York Thomas Dunne Books Paperback, x + 387 pages Illustrations, plates Reviewed by Ingrid Perkins Ballarat High School, Ballarat
	How Australia Led the Way: Dora Meeson Coates and British Suffrage by Myra Scott 2018 Arcadia Melbourne Illustrations, portraits Revised edition Paperback, xvii + 120 pages Reviewed by Michael J. Adcock Melbourne Grammar School, Melbourne Teaching resource: Dora Meeson (Word document)
	Questions I Am Asked About the Holocaust by Heidi Fried Translated by Alice E. Olsson 2019 Melbourne Scribe Hardback, 160 pages Reviewed by Ellen Langmead Caulfield Grammar School, Caulfield
	Sgt Carroll’s War by Mike Irwin 2018 Melbourne Paperback, x + 90 pages Illustrations, portraits, maps Turkish Private Ryan: Canakkale's Anzac Hero by John Gillam and Yvonne Fletcher Illustrations by Lillian Webb 2018 East Maitland, New South Wales Legends and Lessons Paperback, 51 pages Illustrations, portraits Reviewed by Lauren Sullivan Caulfield Grammar School, Caulfield
	Someone Else’s War by John Connor 2018 London I.B Tauris Hardback, 360 pages B&W illustrations; map Reviewed by Shaun Silcock HTAV
	Waves: For Those Who Come Across the Sea by Donna Rawlins Ilustrations by Mark Jackson and Heather Potter 2019 Melbourne Picture book, 33 pages Illustrations Reviewed by Katie O’Connell Sunshine College, Sunshine
	The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills: Forgotten Narratives Edited by Ian D. Clark and Fred Cahir 2016 CSIRO Publishing Melbourne Paperback, 336 pages Illustrations, photographs RRP $49.95 Reviewed by Rachel Towns St John's Regional College, Dandenong
	Historical Thinking for History Teachers: A New Approach to Engaging Students and Developing Historical Consciousness Edited by Tim Allender, Anna Clark and Robert Parkes 2019 Allen & Unwin Crows Nest, New South Wales Paperback, 352 pages RRP $59.99 Reviewed by Ashley Pratt Melbourne Girls Grammar School, Melbourne
	Respectable Radicals: A History of the National Council of Women of Australia 1896–2006 by Marian Quartly and Judith Smart 2015 Monash University Publishing Clayton, VIC Paperback, 497 pages Illustrations, plates, portraits RRP $39.95 Reviewed by Linda Wade All Hallows' School, Brisbane
	‘Me Write Myself’: The Free Aboriginal Inhabitants of Van Diemen’s Land at Wybalenna, 1832–47 by Leonie Stevens 2017 Monash University Publishing Clayton, VIC Paperback, 356 pages Maps RRP $29.95 Reviewed by Linda Wade All Hallows’ School, Brisbane
	The Debatable Land by Graham Robb 2018 Picador London Hardback, 334 pages Colour & BW illustrations, maps RRP $36.99 Reviewed by Elizabeth Renton Laverton P–12 College, Laverton
	You'll Be Sorry: How World War II Changed Women's Lives by Ann Howard 2016 Big Sky Publishing Warriewood NSW Paperback, 370 pages B/W maps and images RRP $29.99 Reviewed by Elizabeth Morgan Girton Grammar School, Bendigo
	The Good Country: The Djadja Wurrung, The Settlers and the Protectors by Bain Attwood 2017 Monash University Publishing Clayton, VIC Paperback, 272 pages Illustrations, maps, portraits RRP $29.95 Reviewed by Kara Taylor Irymple Secondary College