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The Fairfax Library, Fixed In Time. Photographs from Another Australia, 1900-1939. 1985. ISBN 0 909558 90 6 (The phrase, "A picture is worth a thousand words" was first penned by Fred. R Barnard in 1927 to describe the value of newspaper photographs, precisely as with this book)

Warren Fahey, Australian Folk Songs and Bush Ballads. ABC Books, 2010, 270pp.

Warren Fahey, Digger's Songs: Songs of the Australians in Eleven Wars. Loftus, Australia, Australian Military History Publications, 1996.

J. K. Fairbank, Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast, 1842-1854. Harvard, 1953.

Byron Fairchild, Messrs William Pepperell. Ithaca, 1954. (US merchant history)*

F. W. Fairholt, Tobacco: its history and associations. London, 1859.

Jane De Falbe, Dear Miss Macarthur: Recollections of Emmeline Maria Macarthur, 1821-1911. Kangaroo Press, Australia, 1988.

Delia Falconer, Sydney. New South, 2010, 272pp.

Edmund Fanning, Voyages Round the World. London, O. Rich, 1834.

Edmund Fanning, Voyages Around The World: with selected Sketches of Voyages to the South Seas, North and South Pacific Oceans, China, etc. 1833. Also, Edmund Fanning, Voyages and Discoveries in the South Seas. 1924. *

Annerley greenery, Brisbane, July 2008

	Photo by Dan Byrnes

F. G. Fassett, The Shipbuilding Business in the United States. (Two Vols) New York, 1948.*

Harold Underwood Faulkner, American Economic History. New York, Harper and Row, 1964.

John Faulkner and Stuart Macintyre, (Eds.), True Believers: The Story of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party. Allen and Unwin, 2001. 308pp.*

John Faulkner and Stuart Macintyre, (Eds.), True Believers: The Story of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party. Allen and Unwin, 2001. 308pp.

Ernest Favenc, (Edited by Cheryl Taylor), Tales of the Austral Tropics. University of NSW Press, 1997, 21pp. (Outback Australian stories from Favenc, died 1908)

Sir Charles Fawcett, (Ed.), "East Indiamen" by Sir Evan Cotton. Nd? *

C. Ernest Fayle, 'Shipowning and Marine Insurance', pp 25-48 in C. Northcote Parkinson, (Ed.), The Trade Winds: A Study of British Overseas Trade during the French Wars, 1793-1815. London, Allen and Unwin, 1948.

Sir Albert Feavearyear, The Pound Sterling: A History of English Money. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1963. Second edition.

Charles H. Feinstein and Sidney Pollard, Studies in Capital Formation in the United Kingdom, 1750-1920. Oxford, Oxford University Press/Clarendon Press, 1988.

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Bruce Felmingham and William Coleman, Money and Power in the Australian Economy. nd? Remaindered, 2003.

Peter Fenton, They Called Him Boy. Random House, 2006, 258pp.

Peter Fenton, Olive Weston, The Heroic Life of a World War II Nurse. HarperCollins, 2003, 286pp.

E. James Ferguson, The Power of the Purse: A History of American Public Finance, 1776-1790. Williamsburg, Virginia, Institute of Early American History and Culture, Chapel Hill, 1961.

J. A. Ferguson, Bibliography of Australia. Addenda, 1784-1850. Canberra, National Library Of Australia, 1986.

Niall Ferguson, The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000. Viking,. 2000.

Niall Ferguson, The House of Rothschild: World's Banker 1849-1999. New York, Viking, nd.

John Ferry, Colonial Armidale. St Lucia, Queensland, University of Queensland Press, 1999.

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Kevin Fewster, Vechi Basarin and Hatice Basarin, Gallipoli: The Turkish Story. Allen and Unwin, 2003, 166pp.

Kevin Fewster, (Ed.), Gallipoli Correspondent: The Frontline Diary of C. E. W Bean. Allen and Unwin, 1983.

James A. Field, America and the Mediterranean World, 1776-1882. Princeton, 1966. *

Michele Field and Timothy Millett, Convict Love Tokens: The Leaden Hearts The Convicts Left Behind. Wakefield Press, 120pp., 1999.

David Fieldhouse, 'Can Humpty-Dumpty be put together again?', Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Vol. 12, No. 2., January 1984., pp. 9-23.

D. E. Fifer, 'Man of Two Worlds: The Early Career of William Charles Wentworth', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Vol. 70, Part 3, December 1984., pp. 147-170.

D. E. Fifer, 'The Sydney merchants and the economic downturn of 1827-1830', Australian Economic History Review, Vol. 32, Vol. 1, March, 1993., pp. 73-84.

E. Fifer, 'The Sydney merchants and the wool trade, 1821-1851', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Vol. 78, Parts 1 and 2, 1992., pp. 92-112.

S. E. Finer. " 'Patronage in the Public Service, Jeffersonian Bureaucracy and the British Tradition", Public Administration, Vol. 30, pp. 260-329(?). (1952).

Paul Finkleman, '"Thomas Jefferson and antislavery": the myth goes on', Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 102, No. 2, April, 1994., pp. 193-228.

Capt. C. W. Firebrace, Honest Harry: Being the Biography of Sir Henry Firebrace, Knight. London, John Murray, 1932.

C. H. Firth, (Ed.), The Narrative of General Venables, with an Appendix of Papers Relating to the Expedition to the West Indies and the Conquest of Jamaica. 1654-1655. London, 1900.

Lewis R. Fischer and Helge W. Nordvik, (Eds.), Shipping and Trade, 1750-1950: Essays in International Maritime Economic History. Pontefract, West Yorkshire, Lofthouse, 1990.

John Fisher, The Australians from 1788 to Modern Times. London, Robert Hale, 1968.

Stephen Fisher, (Ed), Innovation in Shipping and Trade. Exeter Maritime Studies, No. 6. 1989.

Paul Fisher, Behind the Lodge Door: Church, State and Freemasonry in America. Washington, DC, Shield Publishing Inc., 1988.

Ron Fisher, Wild Shores of Australia. nd? Remaindered, 2003.

Albert Fishlow, American Railroads and the Transportation of the Ante-Bellum Era. Cambridge, Mass, 1965.*

R. S. Fitton, The Arkwrights: Spinners of Fortune. Manchester, England, Manchester University Press, 1989.

John Fitzgerald, Big White Lie, Chinese Australians in White Australia. UNSW Press, 2007, 312pp. 

Ross Fitzgerald, Lyndon Megarrity and David Symons, Made in Queensland: A New History. University of Queensland Press, 2009, 380pp.

Ross Fitzgerald and Stephen Holt, Alan "The Fox" Reid. New South Books, 2010, 365pp. (Portrait of a noted Australian journalist)

Ross Fitzgerald and Trevor L. Jordan, Under the Influence: A History of Alcohol in Australia. ABC Books (Australia), 2009.

Ross Fitzgerald, My Name is Ross: An Alcoholic's Journey. New South, 2010, 226pp.

Shirley Fitzgerald, Sydney: A Story of a City. Sydney, HarperCollins, 1999.

Brian Fitzpatrick, The British Empire in Australia: An Economic History, 1834-1939. South Melbourne, Macmillan of Australia, 1969.

Brian Fitzpatrick, The Australian Commonwealth: A Picture of the Community, 1901-1957. Melbourne, FW Cheshire, 1956. WCW and Indian labourers.

Brian Fitzpatrick, British Imperialism and Australia, 1787-1837: An Economic History of Australasia. Sydney, Sydney University Press, 1971.

John C. Fitzpatrick, The Writings of George Washington, from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799. Vol. 1, 1745-1756. Washington, US Government Printing Office, 1931.

Peter Fitzsimons, Nancy Wake. HarperCollins, 2004.

Peter Fitzsimons, Mawson - And The Ice Men of the Heroic Age: Scott, Shackleton and Amundsen. William Heinemann, 2011, 737pp.

Peter Fitzsimons, The Ballad of Les Darcy. HarperCollins, 2007, 221pp.

Peter Fitzsimons, Kokoda. Hodder, 2004, 490pp.

Peter Fitzsimons, Nancy Wake. HarperCollins, 2001, 305pp. (An Australian World War II heroine in France)

Tim Flannery, (Ed.), The Birth of Sydney. Text, 2000.*

Tim Flannery, The Life and Adventures of John Nicol, Mariner. Boston, Mass., Atlantic Monthly Press, nd-recent.

Tim Flannery, (Ed.), Terra Australis. Text, 2000. (Matthew Flinder's adventures as he is the first to circumnavigate Australia.)

Tim Flannery, (Ed.), Terra Australis. Text, 2000. (Matthew Flinder's adventures as he is the first to circumnavigate Australia)

Thomas Fleming, 1776: Year of Illusions. New York, W. W. Norton and Co., 1975.

Brian H. Fletcher, Magnificent Obsession: The Story of the Mitchell Library. Allen and Unwin and State Library of NSW, 2008, 512pp.

Brian H. Fletcher, 'The Hawkesbury settlers and the Rum Rebellion', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Vol. 54, Part 3, September 1968., pp. 217-237.

Brian H. Fletcher, (Ed.), David Collins, An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, with Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, etc., of the Native Inhabitants of that country. (Two Vols.) Orig. 1798. Sydney, A. H. and A. W. Reed, with the Royal Australian Historical Society, 1975.

Brian H. Fletcher, Landed Enterprise and Penal Society: A History of Farming and Grazing in New South Wales before 1821. Sydney, Sydney University Press, 1976.

Brian H. Fletcher, 'Sir John Jamison in New South Wales, 1814-1844', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Vol. 65, Part 1, June 1979., pp. 5-29.

Brian H. Fletcher, Australian History in New South Wales, 1888-1938. Kensington, NSW, Australia, University of New South Wales Press, 1993.

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Herbert J. Fleure, The Way of the Sea. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1929. *

M. W. Flinn, The Origins of the Industrial Revolution. London, Longman, 1967.

Raymond Flower and Michael Wynn Jones, Lloyd's of London: An Illustrated History. Newton Abbot, David and Charles, 1974.

Michael Flynn, The Second Fleet: Britain's Grim Convict Armada of 1790. Sydney, Library of Australian History, 1993.

Michael Flynn, Settlers and Seditionists: The People of the Convict Ship Surprize, 1794. Sydney, Angela Lind, 1994.

John P. Fogarty, 'The New South Wales Pastoral Industry in the 1820s', Australian Economic History Review, Vol. 8, No. 2, September 1968., pp. 110-122.

John P. Fogarty, 'The staple approach and the role of government in Australian economic development: the wheat industry', Business Archives and History, Vol. 6, No. 1, February 1966., pp. 34-52.

Cameron Forbes, Hellfire: Australia, Japan and the Prisoners of War. Macmillan, 2005, 592pp.*

Robert Bennett Forbes, Personal Reminiscences. Boston, 1978. (Memoirs of a C19th US merchant to China, head of Russell and Co. at Canton, originally from Boston) *

R. B. Forbes, Remarks on China and the China Trade. Boston, Samuel N. Dickison, 1944.

W. Forbes, A methodical treatise concerning bills of exchange. 2nd edn. Edinburgh, 1718.

Clive Forster, Australian Cities: Continuity and Change. Remaindered, 2003.

G. F. Fort, Early History and Antiquities of Freemasonry. 1875.

B. Foy, Revolution and Freemasonry, 1680-1800. 1935.

J. Fortescue, (Ed.), The Correspondence of King George III. London, Macmillan, 1927-1928. Vol. 6.

Colin Foster. France and Botany Bay: The Lure of a Penal Colony: (Cited in Keneally, Commonwealth), Notknown.

M. C. Foster, 'Tyranny, oppression and fraud - Port Jackson New South Wales, 1792-94', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Vol. 60, Part 2, June 1974., pp. 73-88.

S. G. Foster, Colonial Improver: Edward Deas Thompson, 1800-1879. Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1978.

W. Foster, England's Quest of Eastern Trade. London, Adam and C. Black, 1966.

William Foster, 'Francis Grose and the Officers', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, No. 61, 1975-1976., pp. 179-182.

Colin Forster, 'French penal policy and origins of the French presence in New Caledonia', Journal of Pacific History, Vol. 26, December 1991., pp. 135-150.

Frank Fox, Australia. London, Vantage House, 1982. (Orig London, Adam and Chas Black, 1910.)

Norman E. Fox, Berkshire to Botany Bay: The 1830 Labourer's Revolt in Berkshire, its causes and consequences. Newbury, England, Littlefield, 1995.

Tom Frame, Evolution in the Antipodes. UNSW Press, 2009, 307pp. (On evolutionist Charles Darwin)

Tom Frame, The Life and Death of Harold Holt. Allen and Unwin, 2005, 372pp.*

Tom Frame, The Shores of Gallipoli: Naval Aspects of the Anzac Camapign. Hale and Iremonger, 2000.

Raelene Frances, Selling Sex: A Hidden History of Prostitution. University of New South Wales Press, 2008, 342pp. 

Adrian Franklin, Animal Nation: The True Story of Animals and Australia. University of NSW Press, 2006, 262pp.

Antonia Fraser, The Six Wives of Henry VIII. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1992.

Antonia Fraser, Faith and Treason: Story of the Gunpowder Plot. New York, Anchor Press/Doubleday, nd.*

Antonia Fraser, The Gunpowder Plot: Terror and Faith in 1601. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1997. *

Antonia Fraser, Cromwell: Our Chief of Men. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973.

A. D. Fraser, This Century of Ours: Being an account of the origin and history during one hundred years of the House of Dangar, Gedye and Malloch Ltd, of Sydney. Sydney, (Company History), 1938.

Derek Fraser, The Welfare State. Sutton Pocket Biographies. nd? Remaindered, 2003.

Malcom Fraser with Margaret Simons, Malcom Fraser: The Political Memoirs. Melbourne, The Miegunyah Press, 2010, 853pp.

Klaus Friedland, (Ed.), Maritime Aspects of Migration. Koln, Bohlau, 1989.

Donald Friend and Paul Hetherington, The Dairies of Donald Friend, Volume 4. No details, 2006.

Graham Freudenberg, Churchill and Australia. Macmillan, 2008, 613pp.

Alan Frost, The First Fleet: The Real Story. Collingwood, Melbourne, Black Inc., (June) 2011, 259pp.

Alan Frost, Botany Bay: The Real Story. Melbourne, Collingwood, Black Inc, (January) 2011.

Alan Frost, The Voyage of the Endeavour: Captain Cook and the Discovery of the Pacific. Allen and Unwin, nd?

Alan Frost, Botany Bay Mirages: Illusions of Australia's Convict Beginnings. Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1994.

Alan Frost, in M. Lincoln, (Ed.), Science and Exploration in the Pacific. London, Boydell, 1998. With a chapter by Alan Frost on 'America, 1739-1807'.

Alan Frost, 'Science for Political Purposes: European Explorations of the Pacific Ocean, 1764-1806', in Nature In Its Greatest Extent: Western Science in the Pacific. 1988., pp. 27-44.

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Alan Frost, 'The Colonisation of New South Wales', pp. 85-93 in John Hardy and Alan Frost, (Eds.), European Voyaging Towards Australia. Canberra, Australian Academy of the Humanities, Occasional Paper No. 9, 1990.

Alan Frost, Arthur Philip, 1738-1814: His Voyaging. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1987. Here, Frost cites: Richard Deacon, A History of the British Secret Service. New York, Taplinger Publishing Company, 1970.

Alan Frost, 'New South Wales as terra nullius: The British denial of Aboriginal land rights', Australian Historical Studies, Vol. 19, No. 77, October 1981., pp. 513-523.

Alan Frost, 'Botany Bay: An Imperial Venture of the 1780s', English Historical Review, Vol. C, 1985., pp. 309-330.

Alan Frost, Convicts and Empire: A Naval Question, 1776-1811. Oxford University Press, 1980.

Alan Frost, 'The choice of Botany Bay: the scheme to supply the East Indies with naval stores', in Ged Martin, (Ed.), The Founding of Australia: The Argument about Australia's Origins. Sydney, Hale And Iremonger, 1978., pp. 210-228. (Also in Australian Economic History Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, March 1975., pp. 1-20.)

Alan Frost, 'Documentary: the East India Company and the choice of Botany Bay', pp. 229-235 in Ged Martin, (Ed.), The Founding of Australia: The Argument about Australia's Origins. Sydney, Hale And Iremonger, 1978.

Alan Frost, 'Botany Bay: a further comment', pp. 252-264 in Ged Martin, (Ed.), The Founding of Australia: The Argument about Australia's Origins. Sydney, Hale And Iremonger, 1978.

Alan Frost, The Precarious Life of James Mario Matra: Voyager with Cook, American Loyalist: Servant of Empire. Melbourne, The Miegunyah Press/Melbourne University Press, 1995.

Alan Frost, 'Thomas Rowcroft's testimony and the "Botany Bay" debate', Labour History, No. 37, 1979., pp. 101-107.

Alan Frost, 'Historians, handling documents, transgressions and transportable offences', Australian Historical Studies, Vol. 25, Nos. 98-101, April 1992-October 1993., pp. 192-213.

Alan Frost and R. J. B. Knight, (Eds.), The Journal of Daniel Paine, 1794-1797. Sydney, Library of Australian History, 1982.

Jack Frutchman, Thomas Paine: Apostle of Freedom. Four Walls, Eight Windows. 1995. ISBN 0 941 423 94 8.

Cyril Fry, 'The Angersteins of Woodlands', Transactions of the Greenwich and Lewisham Antiquarian Society, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1961-1963. London, The Society, 1964., pp. 86-105.

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Eric Fry, (Ed.), Rebels and Radicals. Sydney, Allen and Unwin, 1983.

H. T. Fry, Alexander Dalrymple (1737-1808) and the Expansion of British Trade. London, Cass for The Royal Commonwealth Society, 1970.

Howard T. Fry, '"Cathay And The Way Thither": The Background To Botany Bay', pp. 136-149 in Ged Martin, (Ed.), The Founding of Australia: The Argument about Australia's Origins. Sydney, Hale And Iremonger, 1978.

Walter R. Fryer, King George III: His Political Character and Conduct, 1760-1784: a New Whig Interpretation, Renaissance and Modern Studies, 6, 1962., pp. 168-201.

Roger Fulford, Glyn's, 1753-1953: Six Generations in Lombard Street. London, Macmillan, 1953.

Roger Fulford, Samuel Whitbread (1764-1815): A Study in Opposition. London, Macmillan, 1967.

Susannah Fullerton, Brief Encounters: Literary Travellers in Australia, 1836-1939. Picador, 2009, 396pp.

Holden Furber, Rival Empires of Trade in the Orient, 1600-1800. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, c.1976.

H. Furber, Bombay Presidency in the Mid-Eighteenth Century, Chapter 2, Asia Publishing House.

Holden Furber, (Edited by Rosane Rocher), Private Fortunes and Company Profits in the India Trade in the Eighteenth Century. Aldershot, Hampshire, UK, Variorum, 1997. (On eastern trade generally to beyond 1800.)

Holden Furber, 'The Beginnings of American Trade with India, 1784-1812', The New England Quarterly, June, 1938., pp. 235-265.

Holden Furber, 'The United Company of Merchants of England Trading to the East Indies, 1783-1796', ECHR, 10, (2), November 1940., pp. 138-147.

Holden Furber, John Company at Work. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1948.

Holden Furber, 'American Trade', New England Quarterly, June 1938, pp. 255-256.

The history websites on this domain now have a companion website on a new domain, at Merchant Networks Project, produced by Dan Byrnes and Ken Cozens (of London).

This website becomes a major exercise in economic and maritime history, with some attention to Sydney, to Eastern Australia.

Below are items still uncollected

Paul Freedman, Out of the East. Yale University Press, 2008, 275pp. (History of the spice trades, yet another book on “history of a commodity”)

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