Just Tassie Books

A comprehensive single-volume reference to Tasmanian history, edited by Alison Alexander and published by the Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies at the University of Tasmania in 2005. With over 1073 articles covering everything from Aboriginal art to zoos, and every district from Adamsfield to Zeehan, this is the most thorough single-volume reference on Tasmania's history available.

A pictorial history of the convict era at Port Arthur — illustrated throughout with 19th century photographs from the Beattie Studio in Hobart. J.W. Beattie was Tasmania's most significant colonial-era photographer, whose studio documented the island's landscape, people and history across the late 19th century.

Ian Brand and Michael Sprod's history of the probation system — the major experiment in convict management that replaced the assignment system in Van Diemen's Land from 1839 and shaped the colony's labour system, landscape and penal administration for the following fifteen years.