A World Apart catalogues, for the first time in full, the Royal Society of Tasmania's collection of more than 950 watercolours, drawings and other works on paper, now held at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart.
A World Apart catalogues, for the first time in full, the Royal Society of Tasmania's collection of more than 950 watercolours, drawings and other works on paper, now held at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart.
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.
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In the early 19th century, amidst public anxiety about the threat to public order and respectability posed by juvenile offenders, over 2000 boys were transported from the streets of London to the Point Puer Boys Establishment at Port Arthur in Van Diemen’s Land.
Winner of the 2026 Dick and Joan Green Family Award for Tasmanian History.
Almost half of the convicts who came to Australia came to Van Diemen's Land, where they found a land of bounty, a penal society, a kangaroo economy and a new way of life.
The two-volume auction catalogue produced by Christie's for the sale of Dr Clifford Craig's collection of Van Diemen's Land and Tasmanian material — held in Launceston in October 1975. Clifford Craig was one of the most significant collectors of Tasmanian Tasmaniana of the 20th century — his bibliographical studies of early Tasmanian printing and colonial furniture remain the standard references in their fields.
A collection of letters written from Van Diemen's Land to Sir William Hooker — director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew — between 1827 and 1849, compiled by T.E. Burns and J.R. Skemp. The correspondents include Ronald Campbell Gunn, Van Diemen's Land's most important colonial botanist; R.W. Lawrence; Jorgen Jorgenson — the extraordinary Dane who briefly became King of Iceland before being transported to Van Diemen's Land (the subject of Dan Sprod's biography The Usurper); and Sir John Franklin, Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land 1837–1843.
Walter B. Pridmore's brief history of the island known as Van Diemen's Land before it became Tasmania. Softcover, 2008, 67 pages, illustrated with colour paintings.
James Boyce's reinterpretation of Van Diemen's Land's early history — arguing that the convicts who arrived in the colony were transformed by the natural world they encountered, actively adapting to their new environment rather than simply enduring it. Almost half of all convicts transported to Australia came to Van Diemen's Land.
![Van Diemen's Land and Tasmania – The Dr Clifford Craig Collection Auction Catalogues Volumes I & II | Christie's | 1975 [USED – SC – Old but Good]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/dr-craig-3setandpricelist-sYYGx0.png "Van Diemen's Land and Tasmania – The Dr Clifford Craig Collection Auction Catalogues Volumes I & II | Christie's | 1975 [USED – SC – Old but Good]")
![Van Diemen's Land Correspondents 1827–1849 – Letters to Sir William Hooker | T.E. Burns & J.R. Skemp (Eds.) | Frank Ellis (Ed.) | 1961 [USED – HC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/van-diemens-land-correspondents-redhardcover-wJf6bL.png "Van Diemen's Land Correspondents 1827–1849 – Letters to Sir William Hooker | T.E. Burns & J.R. Skemp (Eds.) | Frank Ellis (Ed.) | 1961 [USED – HC]")
![Van Diemen's Land | James Boyce | 2021 Reprint [USED – HCDJ – Good]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/van-diemens-land-boyce-hardcover-UeVSLg.png "Van Diemen's Land | James Boyce | 2021 Reprint [USED – HCDJ – Good]")
