John Tilston: 6 books

In just one generation Brisbane has changed beyond recognition; it has grown from country town to vibrant modern metropolis. Yet it had a tough start. Until the last decade of the 20th Century it was a blue collar town, struggling under the weight of its history.   Prior to European settlement...

Winston Churchill, reappointed as First Lord of the Admiralty in September 1939, suspected there was a mole operating at the heart of the Admiralty during the first months of World War II. Did he leak critical information about naval defenses at the Royal Navy’s British base at Scapa Flow that lead...

Times have changed for regional economic development. Back in the not-so-far-ff good old days, announcements of a new factory setting up in town of the approval granted for a new large apartment block would have been widely accepted and even applauded by communities. Now mostly they are not. NIMBY...

Stock exchanges were crucial in developing Australia by greasing the often-creaking wheels of investment. Their spluttering into life in the 1880s was fractious and disorganized, but fledgling stockbrokers couldn’t ignore the need for marketplaces to trade stocks and shares in the burgeoning mining...

Journalist John Tilston often got tongue tied when trying to explain to dinner guests why he was vegetarian. He decided he'd better find out whether his gut feelings about vegetarianism were right, so he embarked on an exploration of the reasons for not eating meat and whether they stacked up. He...

Great Zimbabwe is an enigma. We know so little about central and southern Africa before 1500. Archaeologists have had to pore over scraps of old pots, glass beads, iron tools and carbon date old bits of wood. Some have searched for hints in rock paintings. Anthropologists have sought a window into...