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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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The Zinc Works - Producing zinc at Risdon 1916-1991 in Hobart, Tasmania

A history of the EZ zinc works at Risdon, on the edge of Hobart, from 1916 to 1991. Tasmanian industrial history.


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This Errant Lady - Jane Franklin's Overland Journey to Port Phillip and Sydney, 1839

In 1839, Jane, Lady Franklin — wife of Tasmania's Lieutenant-Governor Sir John Franklin — did something almost no colonial woman of her time did: she set out from Hobart to Port Phillip, then overland from Melbourne to Sydney, travelling through country few Europeans had crossed.


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This Whispering in Our Hearts Revisited
A revised history of the relationship between Indigenous Australians and early settlers, with a focus on those men and women who fought for justice for Indigenous people even when doing so left them isolated and criticised by their fellow whites.

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To Hell or to Hobart – The Story of an Irish Convict Couple Transported to Tasmania in the 1840s | Patrick Howard | 1993 [HCDJ]

Patrick Howard's account of his great-grandparents — Stephen Howard and Ellen Lydon — both transported to Van Diemen's Land in the 1840s and united in Hobart Town.


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To Hell or to Hobart – The Story of an Irish Convict Couple Transported to Tasmania in the 1840s | Patrick Howard | 2012 [SC]

Patrick Howard's account of his great-grandparents — Stephen Howard and Ellen Lydon — both transported to Van Diemen's Land in the 1840s and united in Hobart Town.


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To Serve in a Distant Land - Bishop Francis Russell Nixon and Anna Maria Nixon in Tasmania, 1843-1863 - Keith Adkins [HCDJ]

Keith Adkins' biography of Bishop Francis Russell Nixon, Tasmania's first Anglican bishop, and his wife Anna Maria - covering his church leadership, his 1857 voyage to the Bass Strait Aboriginal community, and the couple's overlooked contribution to colonial art.


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To Solitude Consigned – The Tasmanian Journal of William Smith O'Brien 1849–1853 | Richard Davis (Ed.) | 1995 | Limited First Edition 453/500 [USED – HCDJ – Very Good]

The Tasmanian journal of William Smith O'Brien, covering his years as a political exile in Van Diemen's Land from 1849 to 1853. Edited by Richard Davis and published in 1995 as a limited first edition of 500 numbered copies. O'Brien was one of the most prominent figures in the Young Ireland movement — a Protestant Irish nationalist and Member of the Westminster Parliament who led the failed 1848 rebellion against British rule.


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Touring Tasmania in the 1880s
The newspaper articles of special correspondent Theophilus Jones who travelled extensively through Tasmania during the 1880s.

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Two Voyages to the South Seas – Astrolabe 1826–1829 & Zélée 1837–1840 | Jules Dumont d'Urville | 1987 | Signed by Translator [USED – HCDJ – Slipcase – Very Good]

An English translation of Jules Dumont d'Urville's accounts of his two great South Seas voyages — the Astrolabe voyage of 1826–1829 and the Zélée voyage of 1837–1840 — published by Melbourne University Press in 1987 in two volumes with slipcase. D'Urville was one of the most significant French naval explorers of the 19th century.


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Unearthed - The Aboriginal Tasmanians of Kangaroo Island, South Australia, Rebe Taylor

This award-winning history (Non-Fiction Award, 2004 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature) tells the story of Tasmanian Aboriginal women taken to Kangaroo Island by sealers in the early nineteenth century, the cross-cultural community they formed decades before South Australia's official settlement, and their descendants' ongoing journey to reclaim a heritage many grew up unaware of.


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