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Shades of Old Hobart Town
Added: Jun 7, 2025
 
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Interest Hobart history-related topics drawn from radio broadcasts.

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CSIRO at Sea
Added: Aug 11, 2025
 
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A history covering fifty years of marine science, encompassing: the field station Tasmania - Stowell - trout in Tasmania - Roy Downie - Derwent Hunter.

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Gladly Teach
Added: Aug 11, 2025
 
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A history of the Launceston Teachers' College 1948-1972.

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History

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

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All Gunns Blazing
 
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A history of the business of J & T Gunn and the development of Launceston in the north of Tasmania, 1871-1997. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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American Citizens, British Slaves - Yankee political prisoners in an Australian Penal Colony
 
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This book tells the strange story of almost a hundred United States citizens who were transported to Van Diemen's Land in 1839-1840.

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Anaesthesia - Awakening the Sleeping Giant
 
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This book is a celebration of William Russ Pugh's first anaesthetic in Launceston, Tasmania - a development which revolutionised medicine and surgery. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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Andrew Bent and the Freedom of the Press in Van Diemen's Land
 
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The work of printer and emancipist Andrew Bent and the freedom of the press in Van Diemen's Land.

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Annie Baxter's Memories
 
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Annie Baxter's Memories of Tasmania and of the Macleay River and New England districts of New South Wales and of Port Fairy in the Western District of Port Phillip 1834-1848.

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Around the Kitchen Table
 
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Around the Kitchen Table with the Missionary Sisters of Service - a portrait of the spirit and the heart of this Tasmanian-bred, Australian-grown Congregation of Religious Women. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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At the Movies
 
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The history of the Star Theatres of Tasmania.

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Aurora Australis 1908-09
 
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A book about the first book to be wholly published within the Antarctic region - from Sir Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition 1907-0 - including a facsimile of the original book.

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Australia's Birthstain - used hardcover
 
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The startling legacy of the convict era - Babette Smith's groundbreaking history of convicts in Australia, which lays bare the distortions and myths that caused the nation to deny its own past.

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Ballycurragh to Tasmania 1649-1868 Grey & Innes families - Volume Two
 
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This is volume two of a narrative about three emmigrant Gray / Grey families and their new lives in their chosen home of Van Diemen's Land in the late 1830s, including the reasons which propelled each one into such a momentous change.

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