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William and Elizabeth Paterson
William Paterson was the longest serving official during the first two decades of European settlement of New South Wales but has largely been overlooked by historians. He and his wife Elizabeth have been rescued from obscurity by this book. Both were energetic, talented Scots whose lives were framed by empire and the Enlightenment. The book moves from Scotland to Africa and India and then offers a fresh look at the turbulent early years of New South Wales from their perspective. William Paterson commanded the regiment nicknamed "the Rum Corps", and led a rebel government after his officers deposed the NSW Governor, William Bligh, in a military coup. The book chronicles William Paterson's ach...
Postcards from Abroad
Elizabeth Paterson worked for International PEN for 29 years and witnessed many strange events, often comic or farcical. The work pays tribute to this international writers' organization and reveals many great writers in unguarded moments.
Elizabeth and John
A landmark and revealing joint biography of Elizabeth and John Macarthur, from one of Australia’s most respected historians. Elizabeth and John Macarthur were the first married couple to travel voluntarily from Europe to Australia, arriving in 1790, both aged 23, within three years of the initial invasion. John Macarthur soon became famous in New South Wales and beyond as a wool pioneer, a politician, and a builder of farms at Parramatta and Camden. For a long time, Elizabeth’s life was regarded as contingent on John’s and, more recently, John’s on Elizabeth’s. In Elizabeth and John, Alan Atkinson, the prizewinning author of The Europeans in Australia, draws on his work on the Maca...
A Brief History of the Private Life of Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning British monarch. A personally quiet, modest and dutiful person, she is far better-informed about the lives of her subjects than they often realize. She has known every Prime Minister since Winston Churchill and every American President since Eisenhower. Yet what of the woman behind the crown? This book seeks to take a new look at this exhaustively-documented life and show how Queen Elizabeth became the person she is. Who, and what, have been the greatest influences upon her? What are her likes and dislikes? What are her hobbies? Who are her friends? What does she feel about the demands of duty and protocol? Is she really enjoying herself when she smiles d...
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