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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]
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
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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Farewell Heemskirk Goodbye Dundas
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Fires, Farms and Forests - Surrey Hills, North-west Tasmania
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Fleeting Hopes - a History of Port Davey
A history of Port Davey, that most isolated outpost in Tasmania's rugged south-west.

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Flinders Island The Furneaux Group
An old booklet for travellers to Flinders Island in the Furneaux Group, Bass Strait, giving a brief history and outline of Flinders.

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Fonthill - used book
The fascinating story of the Tasmanian colonial property Fonthill in the Midlands, and the three families - Tabarts, Burburys, Harveys - that have dominated its stewardship over almost 175 years.

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Frenchmans Cap – Story of a Mountain | Simon Kleinig | 2012 | Signed by Author [USED – SC – Out of Print]

A collection of stories about Frenchmans Cap — the distinctive quartzite peak in Tasmania's Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park, one of the most recognisable mountains on the island and one of the more demanding day walks in the southwest.


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From Flat Top to Rhyndaston

A history of the Rhyndaston–Tiberias area, in Tasmania's Southern Midlands, and its pioneering families. Rhyndaston lies close to Colebrook, near Flat Top Hill, in a district where several localities carry biblical place names, including nearby Tiberias and Jerusalem.


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From Jerusalem to Colebrook

A local Tasmanian history of the Jerusalem to Colebrook area of the Coal River Valley, near Richmond, by Helen J Osbourne — also author of From Flat Top to Rhyndaston.


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From Montagu Swamp to Togari

"A job well done" tells the early history, development and settlement of parts of the Montagu swampland in Circular Head, northwest Tasmania to the lush dairy farms of today.


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George Town - History of the town and district
A local history of George Town on the north coast of Tasmania.

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