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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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School By The Sea - Burnie High School
Added: Jul 23, 2026

School By The Sea - Burnie High School


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Up Country - History of Portland Municipality, North East Tasmania
A history of the towns that made up Tasmania's Portland Municipality before it was merged into Dorset.

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Valley People - the stories of some 36 characters of the Fingal Valley

The stories of some 36 characters of the Fingal Valley with black/white photographic portraits by local GP Dr Jim Marwood.


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Van Diemen's Land to Tasmania... 1642-1856

Walter B. Pridmore's brief history of the island known as Van Diemen's Land before it became Tasmania. Softcover, 2008, 67 pages, illustrated with colour paintings.


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Vanishing Towns - softcover
One of Tasmania's most popular books of the past ten years is back in print with this softcover edition. Vanishing Towns provides a comprehensive examination of Tasmania's towns and settlements that are no longer (or never were) inhabited.

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Vanishing Towns – Tasmania's Ghost Towns and Lost Settlements – Hardcover Edition | Michael Holmes | 2014 [USED – HCDJ – Very Good]

Michael Holmes's guide to the ghost towns and lost settlements of Tasmania — the places that once lived, occasionally thrived, and then disappeared, leaving varying degrees of evidence that they ever existed.


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Water Under the Bridge
A history of Carrick in the north of Tasmania.

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Way Back When - People, Places and Events
A book of contributed stories about the early days of settlement in and around Launceston in Northern Tasmania.

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Westella
A brief account of Westella - Residential Family Club, 181 Elizabeth Street, Hobart - signed with a gift inscription from the author inside the front cover.

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Western Tasmania - A Land of Riches & Beauty
A reprint of an old book on the history and economic development of Tasmania's rugged West Coast region.

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When Camp Creek Flowed Free
The Dixon Papers, 1800-2000 - a memoir and local history of Wynyard in north-west Tasmania.

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