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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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Ghost Stories of Richmond | Granny Jones | 1992 [USED – SC – Good]

A small booklet of ghost stories associated with Richmond — the historic colonial town near Hobart, home to the oldest Catholic church in Australia and the Richmond Bridge, the oldest road bridge in Australia still in use.


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Glamorgan Tasmania
A history of Glamorgan on the East Coast of Tasmania - the oldest municipality in Australia.

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Gleanings from the Past - Bruny Island
Local history and memories of life on Bruny Island by Tasmanian watercolour artist Beryl Manning (nee Lehner).

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Glenorchy 1804-1964
A local Tasmanian history of an area of Greater Hobart.

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Go West to Hell's Gates
Tasmania's wild west, long ago.

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Going to the Mechanics
A history from the north of Tasmania of the Launceston Mechanics Institute 1842-1914.

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Grasping at Shadows - Balfour, the mining town in the Tarkine
In 1975 a young Adelaide teacher, who wanted to write for the theatre, fell in love with a geologist and followed him to the abandoned Tasmanian mining town of Balfour, in the Tarkine area. With another couple and their two small children, they lived the 1970s back-to-the-bush dream while operating a small-scale tin mining plant.

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Gravel & Mud
Stories of football played in the mud and gravel of Tasmania's West Coast mining community.

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Growing with Strength - History of Hobart City Council 1846-2000
This commissioned history of the Hobart City Council written by two Hobart-born historians describes the role of the people - aldermen, municipal officers and members of pressure groups - who have played a large part in Hobart's municipal life over 154 years.

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Guardians of the Port - used, signed
A history of the colonial pilots of the Port of Hobart from the earliest days of maritime trade on the Derwent.

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