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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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Tales of Old Tasmania
Added: Oct 4, 2025
 
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Historic stories from the early colonial days of Tasmanian settlement.

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History

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

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Alas, for the Pelicans! Flinders, Baudin & Beyond - Essays and Poems
 
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This collection of essays and poems celebrates the 200th anniversary of the encounter in 1802 between explorers Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders off the shores of South Australia, and examines some of the cultural contexts of their voyages and the ramifications of their discoveries over the ensuing years.

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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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