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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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History of the Iron Pot - Derwent Light See details
History of the Iron Pot - Derwent Light
A comprehensive history of the Iron Pot - Australia's oldest lighthouse tower, Derwent Lighthouse - and a study of life in the colony of Van Diemen's Land and of its transition to the modern state of Tasmania.
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Hobart See details
Hobart
Peter Timm's Hobart has been republished here in 2020 to reflect the massive tourism-driven impact of MONA on the Tasmanian State capital.
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Hobart High School to Hobart College 1913-2013 See details
Hobart High School to Hobart College 1913-2013
A history of the revolution in State secondary education in Tasmania.
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Hobart's Tram Trilogy - Elizabeth, Macquarie & Liverpool Streets - softcover See details
Hobart's Tram Trilogy - Elizabeth, Macquarie & Liverpool Streets - softcover
This tram history book is divided into three sections (the Elizabeth Street, Macquarie Street and Liverpool Street trams of Hobart, Tasmania), and recalls the endeavour and enterprise of earlier years, and the importance of the tramway system in the evolution of the city of Hobart and the growth of its suburbs.
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Home of Peace See details
Home of Peace
The Eskleigh story.
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Houses & Estates of Old Glamorgan – Thirty Early Properties of Tasmania's East Coast | Ward, Martin Ferris & Brooks | 2nd Edition 2021 [NEW – SC] See details
Houses & Estates of Old Glamorgan – Thirty Early Properties of Tasmania's East Coast | Ward, Martin Ferris & Brooks | 2nd Edition 2021 [NEW – SC]

A thoroughly researched history of thirty early properties of the former Glamorgan municipality on Tasmania's east coast — the pastoral and farming country stretching from Swansea south through the Freycinet and Dolphin Sands country. This second edition is revised and updated with three additional properties, each with an architectural description of the house and outbuildings.

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Hydro Construction Villages Volume One – Waddamana, Shannon and Tarraleah | Sarah Rackham | 1981 [USED – SC – Out of Print] See details
Hydro Construction Villages Volume One – Waddamana, Shannon and Tarraleah | Sarah Rackham | 1981 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

The first volume in Sarah Rackham's three-volume series documenting the construction villages built by the Hydro-Electric Commission to house workers and their families during the great dam-building era in Tasmania's Central Highlands. Waddamana was the site of the HEC's first major power station, built in 1916 — now a museum. Shannon and Tarraleah were later construction camps and villages built to support the push into the Central Plateau in the 1930s.

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Hydro Construction Villages Volume Three – Poatina, Gowrie Park and Strathgordon | Sarah Rackham | 1983 [USED – SC – Very Good] See details
Hydro Construction Villages Volume Three – Poatina, Gowrie Park and Strathgordon | Sarah Rackham | 1983 [USED – SC – Very Good]

The third and final volume in Sarah Rackham's series documenting the construction villages of the Hydro-Electric Commission — covering three of the most distinctive HEC settlements in Tasmania - Poatina above Longford, Gowrie Park near Quamby Bluff, and Strathgordon (construction village for the Gordon Dam and at the centre of the Lake Pedder flooding and later the Franklin Dam campaign).

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Hydro Construction Villages Volume Two – Butlers Gorge, Bronte Park, Trevallyn and Wayatinah | Sarah Rackham | 1982 [USED – SC – Out of Print] See details
Hydro Construction Villages Volume Two – Butlers Gorge, Bronte Park, Trevallyn and Wayatinah | Sarah Rackham | 1982 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

The second volume in Sarah Rackham's three-volume series documenting the construction villages built by the Hydro-Electric Commission during Tasmania's great dam-building era. Volume Two covers four distinct HEC villages — Butlers Gorge, near Lake King William in the upper Derwent catchment; Bronte Park, on the Central Plateau near Bronte Lagoon; Trevallyn, the hydro suburb built on the hills above Launceston to house workers for the Trevallyn Power Station; and Wayatinah, a construction village in the southern Central Plateau.

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Identities and History of Tasmania's High Country | Ned Terry | 2005 [USED – SC – Out of Print] See details
Identities and History of Tasmania's High Country | Ned Terry | 2005 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

Ned Terry's collection of recollections from people who lived and worked in Tasmania's Central Highlands — the cattlemen, snarers, drovers, hydro workers and families who made their living in the high country around Great Lake, the Mersey Valley, the Forth Valley and the surrounding plateau.

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