History
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.
Aurora Australis 1908-09
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
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
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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Becoming Tasmania - Renaming Van Diemen's Land - used
Where did the name Van Diemen's Land come from? How was it chosen? Were there any alternatives? And how did it obtain self-government and the new name of Tasmania?
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Beneath the Peak of Lyell
The Mount Lyell mines and their 2ft gauge tramways - a history.
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Black Founders - used
The unknown story of Australia's first black settlers. This Australian history is based around the fact that black convicts were among the First Fleet settlers – something which profoundly complicates the understanding of race relations in early colonial Australia.
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Black Tuesday
Memories from the mega fire in Hobart and South East Tasmania on 7 February 1967.
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![At the Movies – The History of the Star Theatres of Tasmania | Jenny Overton | 2020 [HC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/at-the-movies-XikGzr.png "At the Movies – The History of the Star Theatres of Tasmania | Jenny Overton | 2020 [HC]")
![Australian Corriedale Century 1882-1982 - origins & development of the Corriedale sheep breed, from NSW's Western Plains to Tasmania's Central Highlands | Andrew Nicolson | 1983 [USED – HCDJ]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/australian-corriedale-century-pYn0kC.png "Australian Corriedale Century 1882-1982 - origins & development of the Corriedale sheep breed, from NSW's Western Plains to Tasmania's Central Highlands | Andrew Nicolson | 1983 [USED – HCDJ]")
