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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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Around Another Corner - photos of Launceston in the 1940s

Volume two from the camera of DG Wherrett capturing Launceston, Tasmania in the 1940s. 


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Around Circular Head - historical stories about people of Circular Head area, NW Tasmania, Pauline Buckby

Historical stories about the people of the Circular Head area of north-west Tasmania — the district centred on Stanley and Smithton, and taking in Marrawah, Woolnorth, Montagu and Trefoil Island. Despite being described as a novel on the back cover, this is more of a collection of historical stories, rather than fiction.


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Around Every Corner - photos of Launceston in the 1940s
Volume one from the camera of DG Wherrett capturing Launceston, Tasmania in the 1940s.

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As The Lobster Flows - Caveside - Chudleigh
A historical record for the re-union of Caveside and Chudleigh Schools and District in the north of Tasmania.

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As the River Flows
A history of the Ringarooma Municipality in north-east Tasmania, from Boobyalla to Mount Victoria.

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Ballycurragh to Tasmania 1649-1868 Grey & Innes families - Volume One
This is volume one of a narrative about three emigrant Gray / Grey families and their new lives in their chosen home of Van Diemen's Land in the late 1830s and the reasons which propelled each one into such a momentous change.

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Baptised in Blood
The shocking secret history of Sorell in Tasmania - the history behind a Tasmanian Aboriginal massacre, of Charles Routley serial killer, and the activities of bushranger Matthew Brady's gang.

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Bards of Tasmania's Old West
Bards of Tasmania's Old West brings some forgotten poets of the West Coast to the fore.

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Barton Private Cemetery
A history and explanation of the burials and memorials in Barton Private Cemetery on a property belonging to the Gatenby family, on the Macquarie Road outside Campbell Town, Tasmania.

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Before They Built the Bridge - used
A light-hearted look at suburban life in Tasmania during the first half of the 20th century.

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