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Tasmanian Built
Added: Mar 27, 2026
 
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A beautifully illustrated book of 100 of the places of the Tasmanian Heritage Register and their stories.

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The Knopwood Historical Lectures
Added: May 7, 2026
 
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A pioneer history of the Derwent's South Eastern Shore.

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History

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

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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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Becoming Tasmania - Renaming Van Diemen's Land - used
 
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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
 
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The Mount Lyell mines and their 2ft gauge tramways - a history.

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Black Founders - used
 
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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
 
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Memories from the mega fire in Hobart and South East Tasmania on 7 February 1967.

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