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Oatlands Past to Present | Oatlands District Historical Society | [NEW – SC] See details
Oatlands Past to Present | Oatlands District Historical Society | [NEW – SC]
Added: Jul 15, 2026

A new local history of Oatlands and the surrounding area — compiled by the Oatlands District Historical Society. Oatlands sits in Tasmania's Southern Midlands on the Midland Highway corridor, about 85km north of Hobart and 40 minutes south of Campbell Town. Its main street of intact colonial sandstone buildings is one of the most complete examples of colonial-era architecture in Australia.

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The Enigmatic Art of the Ross Bridge Tasmania | Dr Jennie Jackson | 2026 | Signed by Author [NEW – SC] See details
The Enigmatic Art of the Ross Bridge Tasmania | Dr Jennie Jackson | 2026 | Signed by Author [NEW – SC]
Added: Mar 26, 2026

A close study of the 186 carved decorations on the Ross Bridge — the convict-built sandstone bridge that has spanned the Macquarie River at Ross since 1836, and one of the most visited historic sites in Tasmania. The carvings were the work of Daniel Herbert, a transported convict who was a stonemason by trade.

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Low Head to Launceston - earliest reports of Port Dalrymple and the Tamar See details
Low Head to Launceston - earliest reports of Port Dalrymple and the Tamar
Added: Aug 12, 2026

Presents the earliest surviving written accounts of the exploration and founding of Port Dalrymple and the Tamar, at the mouth of which the site of modern Launceston developed. On the evening of 3 November 1798, Matthew Flinders and George Bass entered Port Dalrymple aboard the colonial sloop Norfolk, becoming the first Europeans to survey the harbour.

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Down Windermere Way... See details
Down Windermere Way...
A small stapled history booklet about Windermere, on the East bank of the Tamar River, in northern Tasmania.
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Duck and Green Peas! For Ever! Finding Utopia in Tasmania See details
Duck and Green Peas! For Ever! Finding Utopia in Tasmania
People have looked to find utopia in the most unlikely Tasmanian places – Port Davey, Elephant Pass, Jackey’s Marsh, Cygnet, Lake Pedder, Castra. This book tells their stories.
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Dying to be Healthy See details
Dying to be Healthy
A social history of how medical advances have impacted on the pioneering families of the Kentish community in northern Tasmania gradually improving their quality of life - home remedies, bush nurses, local midwives, diseases, epidemics, small private hospitals and all the doctors, dentists and pharmacists who have practised in Kentish.
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Early Deloraine See details
Early Deloraine
The writings of Louisa Meredith and Daniel Griffin with a selection of photographs from circa 1850 to 1919 capturing the early days of Deloraine, in the north of Tasmania.
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Early History of the Penny Royal Watermill and Gatenby Family See details
Early History of the Penny Royal Watermill and Gatenby Family
An 8- page booklet telling the early history of Launceston's Penny Royal Watermill and the Gatenby family whose farm it was originally built on in the Northern Midlands of Tasmania, 1812-1862.
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Echoes from the Wild West Coast of Tasmania - used See details
Echoes from the Wild West Coast of Tasmania - used
A book based on the Tasmanian West Coast stories of Frederick George Copeland who wrote about his experiences around Queenstown, Penghana, Strahan, Zeehan, Corinna and Trial Harbour in the 1890s.
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Entally House 1821: Pageant of a Pioneer Family 1792-1912 (K.R. von Stieglitz) - Tasmanian History / Genealogy See details
Entally House 1821: Pageant of a Pioneer Family 1792-1912 (K.R. von Stieglitz) - Tasmanian History / Genealogy

Built in 1821 at Hadspen in northern Tasmania, Entally House was home to four generations of the Reibey family, descendants of the celebrated emancipist businesswoman Mary Reibey. In this booklet, Tasmanian historian K.R. von Stieglitz traces the house and its pioneering occupants from 1792 to 1912, making it a useful reference for anyone researching the Reibey family or the history of colonial homesteads in the northern reaches of the Tasmanian Midlands, now Meander Valley municipality.

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Ephemeral Lisle See details
Ephemeral Lisle
A history of Lisle, the town that disappeared, in North East Tasmania.
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Faces of Launceston – The Photography of Philip Kuruvita 1995–2015 | Philip Kuruvita | 2015 [USED – SC – Very Good] See details
Faces of Launceston – The Photography of Philip Kuruvita 1995–2015 | Philip Kuruvita | 2015 [USED – SC – Very Good]

Philip Kuruvita's twenty-year photographic portrait project — 128 pages of black and white photographs capturing the people of Launceston between 1995 and 2015. In situ portraiture of a community over two decades gives this book a different character from a commemorative or historical photo album.

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Fair Dinkum Dutch Courage See details
Fair Dinkum Dutch Courage
Stories of the Dutch settlers in Ulverstone, Tasmania.
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