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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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Miners Siding, Queenstown Tasmania 1983 centenary of Lyell mining

A small illustrated history booklet published to mark the centenary of Lyell mining at Miners Siding, Queenstown, in 1983 — a century on from the 1883 discovery of gold at the Iron Blow, the find that launched mining in the district and eventually led to the formation of the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company in 1893.


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Miss Leake's Journal - used
Sarah Elizabeth Leake, Miss Leake, was mistress at Rosedale, her father's property, near Campbell Town in Tasmania's Midlands.

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More Historical Stories of Tasmania's West Coast - Les Morley

The companion volume to the popular regional series by respected Tasmanian transport and local historian L.J. (Les) Morley. An essential visual and narrative archive capturing the rugged pioneering grit of early West Coast mining towns, bush tracks, and local characters.


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More Ripper Tassie Place Names Volume Two
A further humorous look at Tasmanian places names... Tasmania is blessed with a plethora of biblical place names, together with many outrageous, unsavoury, quirky and crazy names.

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More Yesterday's Hobart Today
A collection of historic and contemporary photographs for a street-by-street look at Hobart’s past and present.

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Mountain Reflections - signed
Kentish residents memories as told to Mary Haberle - local history from the north of Tasmania.

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Mountain Stories: Volume 1 | Simon Cubit | Tasmanian History

Mountain Stories is a collection of over 50 tales of the pioneering bush men who worked and lived in one of Tasmania's remotest regions, the arc of country from Great Lake west to the Vale of Belvoir near Cradle Mountain.


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Mountain Stories: Volume 2 | Simon Cubit | Tasmanian History

Mountain Stories: Echoes from the Tasmanian High Country (Volume 2) by Simon Cubit, available new, offers a collection of oral histories from the Western Tiers and Central Plateau. As a standalone volume that does not require reading the out-of-print first book, this 290-page softcover captures the lives of the mountain men and heritage huts.


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Mt Paris Dam
During the boom time of tin mining at Derby in the north east of Tasmania, the Mt Paris Dam was constructed.

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Municipal Magnificence - The Hobart Town Hall
This book tells the 1866 - 2016 story of the Hobart Town Hall site from its earliest days, as an Aboriginal landscape, the location of the colony's first government house and the design and completion of the present Town Hall complex. USED.

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