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Horse Power - A short Economic History of Horses in Tasmania - K.M. Dallas
Added: Sep 16, 2026

A 1968 study of horses in Tasmania - farm horses, coach horses, half-breds and horses in war - by University of Tasmania economic historian K.M. Dallas.


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Clyde Company Papers 1821-1873 - the primary source record of colonial Van Diemen's Land and the founding of Victoria's pastoral industry, 7 volumes | ed. P.L. Brown | Oxford, 1952-1977 [USED – HCDJ – Complete Set]
Added: Sep 15, 2026

Clyde Company Papers 1821 to 1873 in seven volumes - Volumes I to VII. 


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Australian Corriedale Century 1882-1982 - origins & development of the Corriedale sheep breed, from NSW's Western Plains to Tasmania's Central Highlands | Andrew Nicolson | 1983 [USED – HCDJ]
Added: Sep 15, 2026

Australian Corriedale Century 1882–1982 traces the origins and development of the Corriedale sheep breed in Australia, from magnificent stud flocks developed across the Western Plains of New South Wales to Tasmania's Central Highlands. Andrew Nicolson's own grandfather and great-uncle were among the breed's earliest registered stud owners and personally knew the foundation breeders, giving him firsthand access to information otherwise unavailable elsewhere.


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History

A broad collection of Tasmanian history books, spanning colonial settlement and Van Diemen's Land through to the state's more recent history. For town and district-specific histories, see our Local History section; for the stories of individual Tasmanians, see Biography.

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Kin - a real people's history of our nation
Kin is the story of European settlement in Australia, told through the stories of the real people who made Australia's history what it is.

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Knights of the Road
A history of the Commercial Travellers' Association of Tasmania.

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La Trobe - Traveller Writer Governor
This lavishly illustrated biography of Charles Joseph La Trobe uncovers the man behind the public name, as not only an important colonial figure but an author and artist.

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Lady Franklin's Revenge - used
A true story of ambition, obsession and the remaking of Arctic history.

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Land Musters, Stock Returns and Lists - Van Diemen's Land 1803-1822
This book records many of the old documents from the early convict settlement of Van Diemen's Land between 1803 and 1822.

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Launceston General Hospital - celebrating 150 years of caring
A history of the LGH.

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Lawless Harvests or God Save the Judges
A legal history of Van Diemen's Land (subsequently Tasmania) from 1803 to 1855.




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Lawyers and the Community
A history of lawyers and the Tasmanian community from Tasman Shields K.C. to John Kable Q.C. This is an out-of-print book in USED and somewhat worn condition.

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Legacy of a Norfolk Plains Convict - William Webb
The history of the convict William Webb, transported for theft, and the very successful legacy his family left to the young colony in the Northern Midlands of Tasmania and beyond.

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Letters from Hobart 1889–1892 | James Backhouse Walker | Margaret Glover (Ed.) | 2015 | Signed by Editor [USED – HCDJ]

The correspondence of James Backhouse Walker to his sister Mary in London over four years from 1889 to 1892, edited by Margaret Glover and published in 2015. Walker was one of Hobart's most prominent lawyers and a noted historian of Van Diemen's Land — his historical papers on early Tasmania remain among the most cited sources in Tasmanian colonial history.


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