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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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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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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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Bound by Every Tie of Duty
 
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A biography of John Lewes Pedder, Chief Justice of Van Diemen's Land from 1824 to 1854.

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Broken Spear - Black Tom Birch & Australia's bloodiest war
 
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The true story of Black Tom Birch of Van Diemen's Land - a charismatic Aboriginal patriot and his unending fight against colonial invasion.

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Bruny D'Entrecasteaux and his encounter with Tasmanian Aborigines
 
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Bruny D'Entrecasteaux and his encounter with Tasmanian Aborigines from Provence to Recherche Bay.

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Buckley's Chance - William Buckley and how he conquered a new world
 
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On a moonlit night convict and former soldier William Buckley escapes and disappears into the Australian bush. Discovered and adopted by an aboriginal tribe who regard him as a ghost, he is initiated into their rich and complex culture.

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Built by Seabrook
 
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Hobart buildings constructed by the Seabrook family from the 1830s.



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Bush Tram-Ways & Private Railways of Tasmania
 
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This Tasmanian transport history book recounts a period from around 1850 to 1960 when men battled almost overwhelming odds to carve a living out of an unforgiving land.

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By Derwent Divided
 
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By Derwent Divided tells what happened when the Lake Illawarra collided with Hobart's Tasman Bridge in the 1975 disaster. This is an out-of-print book in USED condition.

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