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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
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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History

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

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A Background to the History of Nursing in Tasmania
A history of the role of nurses in the development of health and medical services in Tasmania, and the practical insights they offer to solving health issues.

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A Century of Tasmanian Methodism 1820-1920 – C.C. Dugan (1920)

A scarce historical booklet detailing the pioneering families, ministers, and early church development of Methodism across Tasmania from 1820 to 1920. Packed with early regional records, this remains a valuable primary reference for local genealogy and social history researchers.


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A Compulsion to Kill – The History of Tasmania's Earliest Serial Killers | Robert Cox | 2014 [SC]

Robert Cox's chronological account of 19th-century Tasmanian serial murderers — beginning in 1806 and covering some of the most disturbing criminal cases in the colony's history.


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A Geographical Historical and Topographical Description of Van Diemen's Land |HCDJ 1967|

Facsimile of George William Evans's 1822 description of Van Diemen's Land, written for prospective emigrants, with a fold-out map and an introductory note by K.R. von Stieglitz. Hardcover with dustjacket, 1967, 140 pages.


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A History of Campbell Town - The Children of Erin
Stories of the early settlers of Campbell Town that are designed to shed light on this Northern Midlands town from its earliest years through to modern times.

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A History of Goldmining on the Tasmanian West Coast
A small but detailed booklet of the history of gold mining in western Tasmania. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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A History of Tasmania by Henry Reynolds |Used SC|

Henry Reynolds' history of Tasmania charts the history of Tasmania from the arrival of European maritime expeditions in the late 18th century, through to the modern day.


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A History of Tasmania – Complete 2-Volume Set | Lloyd Robson | 1983/1991 [USED – HCDJ – Out of Print]

The complete two-volume academic history of Tasmania by Lloyd Robson, widely regarded as the standard modern historical treatment of the island's past. Together the two volumes constitute the most thorough and rigorously researched single-author history of Tasmania available.


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A History of Tasmania – Volume II Only: Colony and State 1856 to the 1980s | Lloyd Robson | 1991 [USED – HCDJ]

Volume II of Lloyd Robson's two-volume A History of Tasmania, sold here as a standalone book. This volume covers the period from 1856 — when Tasmania achieved self-government and the colony's name was formally changed from Van Diemen's Land — through to the 1980s.


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A History of the Post Office in Tasmania
A history of the postal service in Tasmania.

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