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Biographies and memoirs of the people who shaped Tasmania – settlers, pioneers, convicts, politicians, farmers, mariners and ordinary Tasmanians whose life stories were written down. Many of these are self-published or small-run family histories that are genuinely hard to find elsewhere, alongside more widely published biographies of well-known Tasmanian figures.

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The Archers of Van Diemen's Land: A History of Pioneer Pastoral Families by Neil Chick (1991 First Edition)

The landmark 1991 first edition of Neil Chick's definitive genealogical and pastoral history of northern Tasmania’s prominent Archer family. A substantial, large-format hardcover containing extensive family lineage charts, maps, and archival illustrations.


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The Art of Pollination

Martin Flanagan spends a year with the irrepressible Jane Tewson, co-founder of Comic Relief, Red Nose Day and Igniting Change.


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The Balfour Correspondent
Sylvia of the Tarkine - over a century ago, a 14-year old girl writes to her local newspaper from Balfour in Tasmania's Tarkine wilderness.

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The Chisholm Letters
The tale of a town scavenger.

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The Colonial Campbells - A Family History by Colin McDowall Campbell, numbered edition

The Colonial Campbells is Colin McDowall Campbell's family history of an early Scots Campbell family in colonial Tasmania. 


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The Convict and the Carpenter
A Tasmanian family history of Mary Springham and William Hambly and their descendants.

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The Convicts' Good Parson – The Reverend George Eastman in Van Diemen's Land 1844–1870 | Terence George Eastman & Pamela Tyson | 2019 [NEW – SC]

The biography of the Reverend George Eastman — a Church of England clergyman who served for 26 years in parishes across Van Diemen's Land during the final decades of the transportation era, and whose final posting was to Port Arthur. Eastman took an unfashionable view for his time: that convicts could be reformed, and that religious instruction, education and practical training were the means to achieve it.


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The Crew of Lancaster ND385F
The story of a mostly Australian crew who manned a Lancaster of Bomber Command in the later stages of the Second World War.

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The Cyclopedia of Tasmania illustrated 2-volume set 1900

The Cyclopedias published for most Australian states around the turn of the 20th century are major resources for historical and biographical research — and this is the original Tasmanian volume. Together, the two volumes contain over 1,500 biographies and more than 1,700 portrait photographs, covering not only the prominent citizens of the day but a large proportion of ordinary Tasmanians in every community — tradespeople, farmers, shopkeepers and professionals alongside politicians and businessmen.


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The Dictates of Destiny
The memoirs of Tasmanian writer Royce Hall.

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