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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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Tall Poplars
Tales of Tasmania's fabled River Derwent valley.

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Taroona 1808–1986 – Farm Lands to a Garden Suburb | Taroona Historical Group | 1988 [USED – SC – Out of Print]

A history of Taroona, the suburb on Hobart's eastern shore of the Derwent south of the city, compiled by the Taroona Historical Group and published in 1988. The book traces Taroona's transformation from early colonial farm land in 1808 through to the established garden suburb it had become by 1986 — covering the families, properties and development that shaped the area across nearly two centuries.


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Tasmania's Beaumaris Beach Mystery - worn
The unsolved disappearance of one foreign tourist and the brutal murder of another on Tasmania's lonely Beaumaris Beach are re-examined two decades later by author Melanie Calvert.

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Tasmania's Forgotten Frontier - used
Settled by sealers prior to Hobart, this is the story of Tasmania's forgotten frontier - the north east coast and islands and the pioneers who braved the isolation to create the first permanent settlements in this remote corner of the state.

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Tasmania's North-East - comprehensive history by A.W.Loone |HCDJ - worn|

Written by Arthur William Loone (1857–1936), a Tasmanian Legislative Councillor for South Esk from 1910 who later died in Scottsdale, this book draws on first-hand knowledge of the district. It covers the discovery of gold and tin, the North-East's mines and railways, biographical details of the pioneers of its various districts, and honour rolls of the men who enlisted from North-East municipalities to serve overseas in the First World War.


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Tasmania's Vanishing Towns - Not what they used to be - used, hardcover
The second volume of Tasmania's lost, forgotten and vanished towns from days gone by - a book about ghost towns.

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Tasmanian High Country Huts
An illustrated guide to the wooden huts left behind by the pioneers who lived and worked in Tasmania's remote high country.

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Tasmanian Village: A Story of Carrick (Mary Kinloch Whishaw) - Tasmanian History / Local History

Carrick is one of northern Tasmania's most historic villages, its identity long bound up with the Old Carrick Mill on the banks of the Liffey River. In this slim, locally produced vintage booklet, Mary Kinloch Whishaw traces the story of the settlement.


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Tassie Pubs I've Called Home
The story of living and working in licensed premises around Tasmania over three decades of profound change.

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Thanks to Providence - Falmouth history
A history of Falmouth, a small seaside town on Tasmania's East Coast and its people.

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