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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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Last Days of the Mill - used
Last Days of the Mill captures the closure in 2011 of Burnie's iconic 'Pulp' through the eyes of a poet and an artist.

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Latitude Forty - reminiscences of Flinders Island

Jim Davie's reminiscences of life on Flinders Island — the largest of the Furneaux Group in Bass Strait, sitting on the 40th parallel south, within the "Roaring Forties" latitude band that gives this book its title.


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Launceston Municipal Transport 1911-1955
A history of transport in the city of Launceston in the north of Tasmania - horsedrawn omnibuses and cabs, trams, trolleybuses, holiday cars and buses.

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Launceston Revealed - History through maps

A history of the settlement and growth of Launceston in the north of Tasmania through maps.


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Launceston Sketchbook - Patsy Adam Smith & Arthur Phillips |HCDJ|

Black and white drawings of key Launceston landmarks by Arthur Phillips, with explanatory text by Patsy Adam Smith, published in the Rigby Australian historical series.


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Launceston – History of an Australian City | John Reynolds | 1969 [USED – HCDJ – Good]

John Reynolds's history of Launceston — the city at the head of the Tamar River in northern Tasmania, founded in 1806 and Tasmania's second city.


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Lefroy
A history of Tasmania's forgotten gold town of Lefroy.

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Legacy of a Norfolk Plains Convict - William Webb
The history of the convict William Webb, transported for theft, and the very successful legacy his family left to the young colony in the Northern Midlands of Tasmania and beyond.

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Legerwood Days - North East Tasmania farming community history |Glenn Carins | 2023 SC |

A history of the North East Tasmanian town of Legerwood.


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Lilydale Conflict or Unity 1914-1918
An examination of a Tasmanian rural district during the Great War / WWI.

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