Just Tassie Books

Tasmania has a long and unusual cricketing story: the colony played in the first first-class cricket match in Australia, defeating Victoria by three wickets in 1851, and produced fine cricketers through the late 19th century, but was overlooked when the Sheffield Shield was established in 1892 and not admitted to that competition until 1977.

Patrick Howard's account of his great-grandparents — Stephen Howard and Ellen Lydon — both transported to Van Diemen's Land in the 1840s and united in Hobart Town.

Published in 1988, this is Kenneth J Evans's history of the Christian Brethren assemblies of Tasmania's Circular Head district, tracing their origin, beliefs and practices from early settlement through chapters on Montagu, Marrawah, King Street Smithton, Forest, El-Nathan Smithton, Edith Creek, Stanley, Lileah and Riverbend, with family trees and an index of the pioneering families involved.