Building Stories Tasmania is an illustrated tour of Tasmania's most distinctive buildings - working waterfronts, former hydro sites, pubs, bookshops, hotels, theatres and small-town main streets - told through the people who built, worked and lived in them: convicts, clergy, brewers, booksellers and activists.
My Kemp Ancestors traces six generations of David Gatenby's Kemp family line, opening on the Isle of Sheppey before following the family chapter by chapter from William Kemp and Amelia Fowler onwards.
Riverine documents four autumns of collaborative work by artists Raymond Arnold, Ian Westacott and John Wolseley, camped along the Banyena/Richardson River at Bonnie Brae, a regeneratively managed farm in Victoria's Wimmera region; the book brings together more than 50 paintings, watercolours and etchings with essays by farm steward Prue McAllister and the three artists.
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James Meehan was sentenced at 26 for his role in an uprising against British rule in Ireland and arrived in Australia in 1800 as a convict servant to English explorer Charles Grimes. Through talent and persistence he rose to become Acting Surveyor General of the New South Wales colony, working under five governors from 1800 to 1822.
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.
Charles Bateson reconstructs the voyages of the ships transporting convicts to Australia and also the administrative system under which the ships were selected, manned, provisioned and despatched with their miserable human freight to face a 13,000 mile voyage over tempestuous and largely uncharted seas.
The first theatrical performance in Australia — a 1788 convict staging of George Farquhar's play The Recruiting Officer at Sydney Cove, to mark King George III's birthday — later inspired Thomas Keneally's novel The Playmaker and Timberlake Wertenbaker's play Our Country's Good. Robert Jordan, Foundation spent years combing British and colonial newspapers, court records and logbooks to uncover the real story of Australia's first forty years of theatre — organised not by nostalgic soldiers and settlers, as long believed, but by convicts themselves.
The biography of the Reverend George Eastman — a Church of England clergyman who served for 26 years in parishes across Van Diemen's Land during the final decades of the transportation era, and whose final posting was to Port Arthur. Eastman took an unfashionable view for his time: that convicts could be reformed, and that religious instruction, education and practical training were the means to achieve it.
The Cotton Papers presents the writings and drawings of William Jackson Cotton, compiled and introduced by Jane Cooper, with a prologue by historian Henry Reynolds and notes by historian Nick Clements. The material is presented as Tasmanian Aboriginal mythology and history handed down through five generations of the Cotton family, who settled on Tasmania's East Coast in the 1820s.
![The Convict and the Compass – The Untold Story of Irish Political Convict and Colonial Surveyor James Meehan | Peter Bradley | 2025 [NEW – HCDJ]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/convict-and-the-compass-P6snPf.png "The Convict and the Compass – The Untold Story of Irish Political Convict and Colonial Surveyor James Meehan | Peter Bradley | 2025 [NEW – HCDJ]")
![The Convict Days of Port Arthur – Illustrated with 19th Century Photographs by J.W. Beattie | 1990 [USED – SC – Good]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/convict-days-of-port-arthur-yGXqxf.png "The Convict Days of Port Arthur – Illustrated with 19th Century Photographs by J.W. Beattie | 1990 [USED – SC – Good]")
![The Convict Probation System – Van Diemen's Land 1839–1854 | Ian Brand & Michael Sprod | 1990 [USED – HCDJ – Good]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/convict-probation-system-uf5fde.png "The Convict Probation System – Van Diemen's Land 1839–1854 | Ian Brand & Michael Sprod | 1990 [USED – HCDJ – Good]")
![The Convicts' Good Parson – The Reverend George Eastman in Van Diemen's Land 1844–1870 | Terence George Eastman & Pamela Tyson | 2019 [NEW – SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/Convict%27s-Good-Parson-VtriPv.png "The Convicts' Good Parson – The Reverend George Eastman in Van Diemen's Land 1844–1870 | Terence George Eastman & Pamela Tyson | 2019 [NEW – SC]")
