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.
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Browse thousands of Tasmanian books at The Book Cellar - convict history, local and family history, Aboriginal Tasmania, maritime, art, nature and fiction, new and out of print. Books ship from Campbell Town, Tasmania.
Just after Christmas 1803, convict William Buckley fled an embryonic settlement in the land of the Kulin nation (now the Port Phillip area), to take his chances in the wilderness.
Anglesea Barracks, in Hobart, is the oldest Australian Army barracks in continuous use, with construction beginning in 1814. Within its grounds is a notable collection of historic cannon and artillery, dating from 1840 to 1970, including guns of the Blomefield Pattern and pieces linked to the Southern Tasmanian Volunteer Artillery, which manned Hobart's coastal defences from 1858 to 1903.
Henry Savery's satirical sketches of colonial Hobart society, first published in the Hobart Town Gazette in 1829 — edited with a biographical introduction by Cecil Hadgraft and notes on the persons by Margriet Roe, published by University of Queensland Press in 1964.