Justin Cahill: 26 books

2016 is the bicentenary of the opening of Sydney’s ‘Rum Hospital.’ It earned its name from the partial monopoly Governor Macquarie granted to three local merchants to import rum in return for building it Prior accounts of the Hospital’s origins focus on Macquarie, the merchants and their disputes....

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A New Life in our History offers a fresh view of Australian and New Zealand history. It tells, for the first time, the epic story of their settlement from the perspective of ordinary people.Beginning with the arrest of Solomon Bockerah and his transportation to Sydney on the notorious Second...

Alfred John North was one of Australia's pioneer ornithologists. He was the author of Nests and Eggs of Birds Found Breeding in Australia and Tasmania (1901-1914), which remains a standard reference work today. While often maligned by his critics, the discovery of North's diary and private papers show him to have been a scientist of the highest calibre.

This is the second edition of The New World Crisis, a short history of the Second Cold War and, perhaps, the origins of the Third World War. Unlike traditional histories, it is intended to be a living document which I will regularly update to account for new developments and interpretations. It provides...

The settlement of Australia and New Zealand were among the most ambitions experiments in social engineering ever attempted. But the hundreds of thousands of ordinary people who made it happen are often absent from the standard histories. This is my case for including ordinary people in national...

I work in the building next to the Lindt Café. Shortly after news of the Siege broke, I found myself locked out. Gradually, I realised my usual day had been pulled out from under me. For the first time, I had become a witness to history. This is my account of the day terrorism returned to Sydney....

A big city lawyer, Mark seems to have it all. But the money and prestige can no longer hide his disillusion with practice. With Kate, his new love interest, he escapes to New Zealand’s famous Routeburn Track. There, he sets out on a new life - with help from some unexpected friends.

We live in a time of crisis. In 2014, the dynamic of international affairs and tempo of events suddenly changed. Russia annexed Crimea. China began to press its territorial claims. Islamic terrorists massacred civilians in Ottawa, Sydney, Paris and Copenhagen. The Islamic State began posting one grim...

The Etruscans remain one of Western Europe’s most enigmatic people. Where they came from is uncertain. Herodotus believed they were from Lydia. Dionysius of Halicarnassus argued they were indigenous to Tuscany. This overview sets out the models of causation used to explain their origins and incorporates the findings of recent DNA studies.

A New Life in our History is the first account of the settlement of Australia and New Zealand told from the perspective of ordinary people. Volume III, Crimson Ties, tells how the Edwards, Biggar, Nicholson and Petersen families helped build a new community at the Croydon Bush Village Settlement near...

This is the second part of A New Life in Our History, an account of the settlement of Australia and New Zealand told from the perspective of ordinary people.By the 1830s, reformers opposed to transportation were promoting a more enlightened solution to Britain’s social and economic difficulties:...

This work draws attention to the increasing localised extinction of native birds in Sydney, an issue of concern to environmentalists that has had very little media coverage.It is based on a case study of the species found in the western part of the Wolli Creek Valley, which lies between Kingsgrove...

This is a short account of five families that lived in and around the Newmarket-on-Fergus district in County Clare from the 1880s to the 1930s. It is an attempt to provide a short account of modern Irish history from the perspective of ordinary people in the aftermath of the Famine and during the...