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Tasmanian Built – The Places and Stories of the Tasmanian Heritage Register | King, Torossi, Evans & Plapp | 2022 [NEW – Large SC] See details
Tasmanian Built – The Places and Stories of the Tasmanian Heritage Register | King, Torossi, Evans & Plapp | 2022 [NEW – Large SC]
Added: Mar 27, 2026

One hundred places on the Tasmanian Heritage Register — and the stories of why they were built, who built them, and why they matter. Tasmania has more heritage-listed buildings per capita than any other Australian state, and the stories behind them are often as significant as the buildings themselves.

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We Were The First - early pioneering in north-west Tasmania and Trowutta See details
We Were The First - early pioneering in north-west Tasmania and Trowutta
Added: Aug 12, 2026

Seafield Deuchar (born Brisbane, 1886) studied at Cambridge before settling near Wynyard in Tasmania's north-west in 1916, taking up and clearing pioneering farmland near Trowutta. This book, illustrated throughout with Deuchar's own paintings, covers clearing the forest, building the family home, water supply, early agriculture and exploration of the district, and the pioneers of Trowutta and district.

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Non fiction titles principally relating to the history of Van Diemen's Land and Tasmania.

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More Yesterday's Hobart Today See details
More Yesterday's Hobart Today
A collection of historic and contemporary photographs for a street-by-street look at Hobart’s past and present.
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Mortmain – Facsimile Collection of Convict Petitions and Letters from Van Diemen's Land | Eustace FitzSymonds | 1977 | Limited Edition [USED – HCDJ] See details
Mortmain – Facsimile Collection of Convict Petitions and Letters from Van Diemen's Land | Eustace FitzSymonds | 1977 | Limited Edition [USED – HCDJ]

A collection of petitions, memorials and letters from the convict colony of Van Diemen's Land, gathered and transcribed by Eustace FitzSymonds from original documents held in colonial archives, with numerous pages reproduced in facsimile directly from the manuscripts. The documents are the voices of the convict system itself — petitions for mercy, memorials requesting tickets of leave, letters of complaint and protest, correspondence between convicts and colonial administrators.

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Mountain Stories: Volume 2 | Simon Cubit | Tasmanian History See details
Mountain Stories: Volume 2 | Simon Cubit | Tasmanian History

Mountain Stories: Echoes from the Tasmanian High Country (Volume 2) by Simon Cubit, available new, offers a collection of oral histories from the Western Tiers and Central Plateau. As a standalone volume that does not require reading the out-of-print first book, this 290-page softcover captures the lives of the mountain men and heritage huts.

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Mr Punch in Tasmania – Colonial Politics in Cartoons 1866–1879 | Clifford Craig | 1980 | Signed by Publisher Dan Sprod [USED – HCDJ – Very Good] See details
Mr Punch in Tasmania – Colonial Politics in Cartoons 1866–1879 | Clifford Craig | 1980 | Signed by Publisher Dan Sprod [USED – HCDJ – Very Good]

Clifford Craig's history of Mr Punch in Tasmania — the colonial satirical magazine that published political cartoons in Tasmania from 1866 to 1879, modelled on the famous London Punch but aimed squarely at Tasmanian colonial politics, personalities and public life.

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Mrs Fenton's Journey See details
Mrs Fenton's Journey
Mrs Fenton's Journey - India & Tasmania 1826-1876.
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Murder at the Launceston General Hospital See details
Murder at the Launceston General Hospital
The death of gatekeeper Thomas Heginbothom at the Launceston General Hospital in Tasmania on 1 October 1870.
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Musquito - Brutality and Exile See details
Musquito - Brutality and Exile
Explores the story of Musquito, an aboriginal resistance leader banished to Norfolk Island and subsequently hung in Van Diemen's Land.
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Narrative of Some Passages in the History of Van Diemen's Land See details
Narrative of Some Passages in the History of Van Diemen's Land
Narrative of Some Passages in the History of Van Diemen's Land during the last three years of Sir John Franklin's administration of its government.
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Narrative of the Overland Journey of Sir John and Lady Franklin See details
Narrative of the Overland Journey of Sir John and Lady Franklin
Narrative of the overland journey of Sir John and Lady Franklin and party from Hobart Town to Macquarie Harbour in 1842 by David Burn, edited here by George Mackaness and published in the Australian Historical Monographs series.
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Norfolk Island and its Second Settlement 1825-1855 See details
Norfolk Island and its Second Settlement 1825-1855
The 2nd book in a three volume series which gives a detailed account of Norfolk Island's distinct settlements.
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