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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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Catherine's Diary - used
A glimpse into the Victorian era, Catherine's Diary, is the jottings of a young Birmingham girl who relocates to northern Tasmania with her family in the late nineteenth century.


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Centenary of the Ulverstone Fire Brigade 1909-2009
A local firefighting history from the north west of Tasmania.

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Churches of Colonial Hobart - A field guide
A field guide to Hobart's history in 24 buildings.

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Cider Gums & Currawongs - used
The Lake Country of Tasmania to the 1950s.

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Clarendon and its People - used
A brief history of the old Clarendon property at the Nile, near Evandale in northern Tasmania, including history of the Cox, Boyes and Menzies families.

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Colonial Life in Tasmania – Fifty Years of Photography 1855–1905 | Allan Sierp | 1976 [USED – HCDJ]

A photographic record of colonial Tasmania covering the years 1855 to 1905. Compiled by Allan Sierp, the book draws together fifty years of early photography documenting the people, towns, industries and landscapes of Van Diemen's Land and early Tasmania.


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Contested Places
A regional history of Tasmania's Northern agricultural districts from ancient times to 1900 - encompassing the former municipalities of Deloraine, Westbury, Evandale and Longford.

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Convict Kingston - Norfolk Island
A history guide to the convict era on Norfolk Island.

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Convict Lives at the George Town Female Factory

The stories of women who were sent to the first 'female factory" in the north of Tasmania.


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Convict Lives at the Launceston Female Factory
The story of the female convicts who lived and worked at the Launceston Female Factory.

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