A social history of a few streets in the Launceston suburb of Newstead — and the World War One veterans who came home to live there under the now little-known War Service Homes Scheme, established after WWI to provide affordable housing to returned soldiers and their families.
Simpson and Richards researched the specific men who first lived in these Newstead homes — who they were, what they had experienced, and how they rebuilt their lives in the years between the wars as the threat of another conflict grew.
At 138 indexed pages with black and white illustrations, this is a piece of intimate local social history — the kind that connects individual family stories to the broader experience of a generation of Tasmanian men who went to war and came home changed.
Out of print since publication.
BOOK DETAILS
- Softcover.
- 138 pages, indexed.
- Black and white illustrations.
- Published 2015. Out of print.
CONDITION
Used, generally good condition.
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