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From Horses to Horse Power
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A nostalgic photographic exploration of Tasmania's transportation evolution from horses to horse power.

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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
 
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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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Into the Woods - The Battle for Tasmania's Forests
 
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In Into the Woods, Anna Krien, armed with a notebook, a sleeping bag and a rusty sedan, ventures behind the battlelines in the Tasmanian wilderness to see what it is like to risk everything for a cause.

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Michael Howe
 
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Michael Howe - the last and worst of the bushrangers of Van Diemen's Land.

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Prospecting the Pieman - George Campbell Meredith
 
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For seventeen weeks over the summer of 1876-77 George Campbell Meredith and his brother Owen prospected and trekked in the harsh country along the Pieman River on Tasmania's west coast.

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Tasmanian Rogues & Absconders Volume 3 - A Passing Trade 1830-1875
 
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A local Tasmanian history that deals with the passing trade from 1830 - 1875 and the development of Port Arthur and the maturing of the colony.

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Van Diemen Anthology 2019
 
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A selection of the best entries from the Van Diemen Anthology competition in 2018-2019 for articles on an aspect of Tasmanian history.

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Wrecked on Bruny Island
 
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The story of the huge storm of 1909 that wrecked three of Tasmania's finest vessels.

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Tasmanian Rogues & Absconders Volume 1 - New Frontiers 1803-1821
 
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A look at some of the history of Tasmania's early beginnings as a penal colony of the British Empire, covering the period 1803-1821.

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Tasmanian Rogues & Absconders Volume 2 - 1821-36
 
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A look at some of the history of Tasmania in the period 1821 - 1836.

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Watcher of the Skies - Alfred Barrett Biggs
 
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The story of Alfred Barrett Biggs, pioneer in astronomy, seismology and telecommunications.

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