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Benjamin W. Labaree, The Boston Tea Party. New York, Oxford University Press, 1968.

Benjamin W. Labaree, (Ed.), The Atlantic World of Robert G. Albion. Middletown, 1975. (US maritime history, interpretive essays)*

Leonard W. Labaree, (Ed.), The Papers of Benjamin Franklin. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1965.

Bernard Lagan, Loner: Inside A Labor Tragedy. Allen and Unwin, 2005, 246pp. (On short-term Labor leader, Mark Latham)*

Ross Laird, Sound Beginnings: The Early Record Industry in Australia. Currency, 2000.*

Brian Lake, British Newspapers: A History and Guide for Collectors. London, Sheppard Press, 1984.

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Marilyn Lake, (Ed.), Memory, Monuments and Museums. MUP, 2006, 303pp.

Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds, Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality. Melbourne University Press, 2008, 371pp.

Marilyn Lake, Ann McGrath and Marian Quartly, Creating a Nation. McPhee Gribble, 1994, 360pp. (Writing women back into Australian history, where they were never entirely absent, actually)

Peter Lalor, The Bridge: The Epic Story of an Australian Icon - The Sydney Harbour Bridge. Allen and Unwin, 2005, 391pp.

G. F. Lamb, Franklin - Happy Voyager - Being the Life and Death of Sir John Franklin. London, Ernest Benn Ltd., 1956.

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W. Kaye Lamb, (Ed.), The Voyage of George Vancouver 1791-1795. London, Hakluyt Society, 1984. (Four Vols.)

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Sheila Lambert, (Ed.), The Scholarly Resources Edition of the House of Commons Sessional Papers of the Eighteenth Century. Vol. 2, 1761-1810. Vol. 6, List to the same. Vol. 123, Port of London. Part 2. [The West India Docks petitioners' matters]. Wilmington, Del., Scholarly Resources Inc., c1975.

William Farquharson Lamonby, Some Notes on Freemasonry in Australasia from the Earliest Times. 1906.

Aubrey C. Land (Ed.), Letters from America: William Eddis. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1969.

Aubrey C. Land, Lois Green Carr, Edward C. Papenfuse, (Eds.), Law, Society and Politics in Early Maryland. London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977.

Aubrey C. Land, The Dulanys of Maryland: a Biographical Study of Daniel Dulany, the Elder, 1685-1753 and Daniel Dulany the Younger, 1722-1797. Baltimore, 1955.

J. Lane, Handy Book to the study of the Lists of Lodges 1723-1814. (Copy, British Library.)

John Lane, A Handy Book to [the study of] Lists of Lodges of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of England. "Moderns And Ancient". London, 1889. (Copy, British Library) (See Belton)

Wheaton J. Lane, Commodore Vanderbilt. New York, 1942.*

H. W. Lanier, A Century of Banking in New York, 1822-1922. (Chapter V. lists wealthy New Yorkers at various periods) nd? *

Paul Lareau, The H.M.S. Bounty Genealogies. St. Paul, Minnesota, 3rd Edition, 1995 (?)

Marina Larsson, Shattered Anzacs: Living With The Scars of War. UNSW Press, 2009, 336pp.

R. G. Lang, 'Social Origins and Social Aspirations of Jacobean London Merchants', Economic History Review, 2, V, 27, 1974., pp. 28-47.

R. Langdon, (Ed.), American Whalers and Traders in the Pacific: A Guide to Records on Microfilm. Canberra, Pacific Manuscripts Bureau, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, 1978.

A. J. Langguth, Patriots: The Men Who Started The American Revolution. New York, 1988.

Kenneth Scott Latourette, "Voyages of American Ships to China, 1784-1844", Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 28, 1927., pp. 237-71.*

Kenneth S. LaTourette, Voyages of American Ships to China, 1784-1844. New Haven, 1927.

Dave Lauder, 'Freemasons and Freemasonry in Queensland, 1859-1989', Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, Vol. 14, No. 1, February 1990., pp. 33-40.

Amanda Laugesen, Convict Words. Oxford University Press, 2003, 208pp. (On speech habits of the convicts in eastern Australia. "Mellow pleasures for the word-conscious", says reviewer)

Robin Law, `The First Scottish Guinea Company, 1634-1639', The Scottish Historical Review, Vol. LXXVI, No. 202, October 1997., pp. 185-202.

Michael Lawriwsky, Hard Jacka: The Story of a Gallipoli Legend. Mira, 2007, 412pp.

Arnold Walter Lawrence, Trade Castles and Forts of West Africa. London, Jonathan Cape, 1963.

John Lawrence, Freemasonry: A Religion? Suffolk, UK, Kingsway Publications, 1987.

Neil Lawrence and Steve Bunk, The Stump-Jumpers: A New Breed of Australians. Hale and Iremonger, 1985, 442pp. (Interviews with contemporary Australian business people.)

Sylvia Lawson, The Archibald Paradox: A Strange Case of Authorship. Melbourne, Miegunyah Press, 2006.

Sylvia Lawson (reissue), The Archibald Paradox: A Strange Case of Authorship. The Migeunyah Press, 2006, 370pp. (On figures associated with the famous Australian magazine, The Bulletin, J. F. Archibald and writer Henry Lawson.)

Peter Lazar, (Ed.,) It's No Secret. Museum of Freemasonry (Australia), 2010, 267pp. (On Freemasonry in Australia, with many biographies of notable Australian Freemasons)

Mary Lazarus, A Tale of Two Brothers. 1973. * (On the sons of Charles Dickens in Australia)

George Sugden Le Couteur, Colonial Investment Adventure, 1824-1855: a comparative study of the establishment and early investment experiences in New South Wales, Tasmania and Canada, of four British companies. Ph.D. thesis, Sydney University, 1978.

Edward Le Fevour, Western Enterprise in Late Ch'ing China: A Selective Survey of Jardine, Matheson and Company's Operations, 1842-1895, no details. *

Christopher Lee, City Bushman: Henry Lawson and the Australian Imagination. Curtin University Press, 2004, 272pp. (Lawson was lampooning Australians for their hero-worship of sportsmen as long ago as 1892!)

Robert Lee, Colonial Engineer: John Whitton 1819-1898 and the Building of Australia's Railways. UNSW Press, 2001, 352pp.*

Ludwig Leichhardt, Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia 1844-45. Corkwood Press, 2000. 354pp.*

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J. H. Lefroy, Memorials of the Discovery and Early Settlement of the Bermudas or Somers Islands, 1515-1685, Compiled from the Colonial Records and Other Original Sources. Reprinted, 1932.

Ludwig Leichhardt, Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia 1844-45. Corkwood Press, 2000. 354pp.

Kath Leahy, Lords and Larrikins. Currency House, 2009, 246pp. (Aspects of theatre history in Australia)

J. A. S. Leighton-Boyce, Smiths the Bankers, 1658-1958. London, National Provincial Bank Ltd., 1958.

Georges Lemaitre, Beaumarchais. New York, 1949.

Geoffrey Lemcke, Reluctant Rebel: Lt.Col. George Johnston, 1764-1823. Self-published, Australia, printed by Fast Books, 1998.

Andrew Lemon, The History of Australian Thoroughbred Racing in Our Time. Hardie Grant, 2008, 304pp (Illustrated by Harold Freedman).

Raoul Lempriere, History of the Channel Islands. London, Robert Hale and Co., 1974.

Charles Leslie, A New and Exact Account of Jamaica. London, 1739.

Werner Levi, American-Australian Relations. 1947.

John Simon Levi, The Forefathers: A Dictionary of Biography of the Jews of Australia, 1788-1830. Sydney, Australian Jewish Historical Society, 1976.

Bernard Lewis (Ed.), The World of Islam: Faith People Culture. London, Thames and Hudson, 1976.*

Dianne Lewis, 'The Growth of the Country Trade to the Straits of Malacca, 1760-1777', Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 43, Part 2, 1970., pp. 114-129.

Frank Lewis, 'The Cost of Convict Transportation from Britain to Australia, 1796-1810', Economic History Review, Series 2, Vol. 41, No. 4, 1988., pp. 507-524.

M. G. Lewis, Journal of a West India Proprietor, kept during a Residence in the Island of Jamaica. London, 1834.

Michael Lewis, The History of the British Navy: A connected story of the first and often last line of British defence. Pelican, 1957.

Richard Ligon, A True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados. London, 1673. (Cited in Walvin p. 342, the standard account for early Barbados and much cited by historians. Reprinted, London, 1970.)

Bryant Lillywhite. London Coffee Houses. London, Allen and Unwin, 1963.

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

Patrick Lindsay, The Spirit of Kokoda. Hardie Grant, 2002.

Patrick Lindsay, The Spirit of The Digger. Macmillan, 2003.

W. S. Lindsay, History of Merchant Shipping and Ancient Commerce. (Four Vols) 1874-1876. (By a prominent British shipowner) *

Karen Lindsey, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived. Reading, Mass., Perseus Books, nd.*

Peter Linebaugh, The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century. London, Penguin Press, 1991.

William J. Lines, Patriots: Defending Australia's Natural Heritage. University of Queensland Press, 2006.

Eric Linklater, The Prince and the Heather. London, Panther, 1976.

Peggy K. Liss, Atlantic Empires: The Network of Trade and Revolution, 1713-1826. Baltimore, 1983. *

Barbara Little, 'The sealing and whaling industry in Australia before 1850', Australian Economic History Review, Vol. 9, No. 2, 1969., pp. 109-127.

John Little, Down To The Sea: The True Saga of an Australian Fishing Industry. Macmillan, 2004, 266pp.

H. V. Livermore, A New History of Portugal. Cambridge University Press, 1966.

Kevin T. Livingston, The Wired Nation Continent: The Communication Revolution and Federating Australia. Oxford University Press, nd? Remaindered, 2003.

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Douglas Lockwood, Australia Under Attack. New Holland, 2005, 214pp. (On the 1942 Japanese bombing of Darwin)

Stephen C. Lockwood, Augustine Heard and Company, 1858-1862: American Merchants in China. nd?*

Roger Lockyer, Buckingham: The Life and Political Career of George Villiers, First Duke of Buckingham, 1592-1628. London, Longmans, 1981.

A. Lloyd, The Wickedest Age: The Life and Times of George III. Newton Abbot, Devon, David and Charles, 1971.

Christopher Lloyd, William Dampier. London, Faber and Faber, 1966.

Christopher Lloyd, The Navy and the Slave Trade. London, Longmans Green, 1949.

Christopher Lloyd. "Economic Policy and Australian State Building: From Labourist-Protectionism to Globalisation." In Nation, State and the Economy in History, Alice Teichova and Herbert Matis, (Eds.), Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press History, economic, Copy per Christopher Lloyd, School of Economics, University of New England, 2003.

Christopher Lloyd. "The 1840s Depression and the Origins of Australian Capitalism,." Conference for the Indian Association of Australian Studies, New Delhi, January 2004, no. work-in-progress E-mail to: Chris.Lloyd@metz.une.edu.au - School of Economics, University of New England and Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University work-in-progress, not to be cited without permission (2004).

Christopher Lloyd. 'The 1840s Depression and the Transformation of Australian Capitalism: Foundations of a Peculiar Political Economy', History, maritime, economic, Draft paper, not for citation without permission, Pers comm per Christopher Lloyd (2005).

Christopher Lloyd, The Nation and the Navy: A History of Naval Life and Policy. London, Cresset Press, 1954. [Reprinted, 1961] (British Navy)

Robert Lomas, The Invisible College. Headline. 2002, 374pp.8 (On history of Britain's Royal Society, founded in 1660, with its first leader, a Freemason finding funding, Sir Robert Moray) *

Edward Long, History of Jamaica. 3 Vols, London, 1774

John Long, Swimming in Stone: The Amazing Gogo Fossils of the Kimberley. FACP, nd.

Norman Longmate, The Breadstealers. London, St Martin's Press, 1984.

Ella Lonn, The Colonial Agents of the Southern Colonies. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1945.

Joyce Lorimer (Ed.), English and Irish Settlement on the River Amazon, 1555-1646. London, The Hakluyt Society, 1989.

Joyce Lorimer (Ed.), English and Irish Settlement on the River Amazon, 1555-1646. London, The Hakluyt Society, 1989.

A. L. Lougheed, 'International trade theory and economic growth', Australian Economic History Review, Vol. 3, No. 2, September 1968., pp. 99-109.

David Love, Unfinished Business: Paul Keating's Interrupted Revolution. Scribe, 2008, 265pp.

H. D. Love, Vestiges of Old Madras, 1640-1800. London, 1913.

Robert W. Love Jr., History of the US Navy. Harrisburg, PA, Stackpole Books, 1994.

Richard Lovett, The History of the London Missionary Society, 1796-1895. Two Vols. London, 1899.

Charles Rathbone Low, History of the Royal India Navy, 1613-1863. 1877. Reprinted by Royal Navy Museum, Portsmouth, in conjunction with London Stamp Exchange, nd. 1990?

C. P. Low, Some Recollections of Captain Charles P. Low, commanding the Clipper Ships "Houqua", "Jacob Bell", "Samuel Russell" and "N. B. Palmer" in the China Trade, 1847-1873. 1905. *

Pat Lowe with Jimmy Pike, You call it desert - we used to live here. Magabala Books, 2010, 158pp. (On the lives of desert Aboriginals, first published in 1990)

A. G. Lowndes, (Ed.), South Pacific Enterprise: The Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd. Sydney, Angus and Robertson, 1956.

Alfred Basil Lubbock, The Down Easters. Boston, 1929. (Treats the vessels of the California grain trade) *

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Basil Lubbock, author of a series of excellent books on Opium Clippers, The Blackwall Frigates, Colonial Clippers, etc. 1930s.

P. Lucas, Historical Geography of the British Colonies. Vol. 2, The West Indies, Second Edn, Oxford, 1905. [Cited in Penson, Colonial Agents, p. 8.] [On Thomas Warner establishing Barbados in 1625.]

Philip Luker, Phillip Adams: The Ideas Man – A Life Revealed. JoJo Publishing, 2011, 337pp.

Brendan Lyons, They Loved Him To Death: Australian Prime Minister "Honest Joe" Lyons. Self-published, 2009, 364pp.

Martyn Lyons, The Totem and the Tricolour. NSW University Press, 1986. (A short history of New Caledonia)

W. J. Lyons, 'Prominent business figures of Sydney in the 1850s, (Part 2 of Notes on the history of the Royal Exchange)', Bulletin of the Business Archives Council of Australia, Vol. 1, No. 3, May 1957., pp. 1-11.

Charles Lyte, Sir Joseph Banks, 18th Century Explorer, Botanist and Entrepreneur. Sydney, AH and AW Reed, 1980.

Ryan Lyndall, 'Reflections by a target of a media witch hunt', History Australia, 1, 105-109, 2003.

Ryan Lyndall, 'Aboriginal History Wars, Australian Historical Association Bulletin, 92, 31-37, 2001.

Ryan Lyndall, 'Who is the Fabricator?', pp. 230-257, in Whitewash, On Keith Windschuttle's Fabrication of Aboriginal History. Black Inc, Melbourne, 2003.

Ryan Lyndall, 'New Perspectives on the Frontier Wars', Australian Book Review, 2002.

Huguette Ly-Tio-Fane Pineo, In The Grip Of The Eagle: Matthew Flinders at the Isle de France, 1803-1810. Mahatma Ghandi Institute, nd?

LLL Legal - Works on matters legal only -

J. McPherson, Addendum: On The Matter of England's Sovereignty over Australia, From 1770-1788. The Queen vs. Denis Bruce Walker. (In the Queensland Court of Criminal Appeal). Ca No. 192 of 1988, Reasons for Judgement Delivered on 1 December, 1988, by J. McPherson, the Chief Justice of Queensland and J. Demack Concurring With Those Reasons.

J. D. Merralls, QC, (Ed.), 'Mabo v. Queensland, [No. 2], Reports of Cases determined in the High Court of Australia', The Commonwealth Law Reports 1992, Vol. 175, Part 1. Sydney, The Law Book Co., 1992.

J. M. Bennett, and Alex C. Castles, (Eds.), A Source Book of Australian Legal History: Source Material from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries. Sydney, Law Book Co., 1979. Chapter V, The Foundation Law, (A) The Creation Of Colonies And The Treatment Of Aboriginal People. The Transportation Act of 1784. [Also, Act 27 Geo III c.2 regarding transportation].

Hansard, The Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803. XXVIII, London, 1816.

D. D. Heath, (1837), 'Secondary Punishment', in British Parliamentary Papers, Crime And Punishment - Transportation 2. Sessions 1837, Appendix No. 10, pp. 258ff, mentioning 4 Geo 2, c.11 of 1717 and the Hulks Act of 1776, Appendix No. 10. ML. (This survey of legislation on transportation makes no mention of Act 24 Geo III, c.56, the crucial legislation of 1784. Act 24 Geo III c.12, the first and quickly repealed reading of that Act, is printed in David Hawkings, Bound for Australia, cited elsewhere here).

Lord Colchester: The Diary and Correspondence of Charles Abbot, Lord Colchester. Edited by Charles, Lord Colchester, 1861. Vol. 1.

Calendar of State XC9452, Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Charles I. 1625-1626., State Paper Dept., PRO, Edited by John Bruce, London, 1858.

The Manuscripts of the House of Lords. New Series. London. 1964-.

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