Julia Clark's illustrated introduction to the history and culture of Tasmania's Aboriginal people — covering the earliest inhabitants of the island, their material culture, social life, and the catastrophic impact of European colonisation. At 56 pages with colour and black and white illustrations throughout, this is a concise and accessible overview suitable for older children, students and adults wanting a clear introductory account.
The author NJB Plomley draws together the observations on the Aborigines made by all the known visitors to Tasmanian shores prior to 1803 - the voyagers Tasman, Marion du Fresne, Furneaux, Cook, Bligh, Cox, Hayes, Bass and Flinders, and the great French expeditions led by D'Entrecasteaux (1792, 1793) and Baudin (1802)..
Between 1825 and 1831, close to 200 British colonists and around 1,000 Aboriginal Tasmanians died violently in what became known as the Black War — the most intense and sustained frontier conflict in Australian history. Nicholas Clements takes a different approach to this history from most accounts.
The Cotton Papers presents the writings and drawings of William Jackson Cotton, compiled and introduced by Jane Cooper, with a prologue by historian Henry Reynolds and notes by historian Nick Clements. The material is presented as Tasmanian Aboriginal mythology and history handed down through five generations of the Cotton family, who settled on Tasmania's East Coast in the 1820s.
The Cotton Papers presents the writings and drawings of William Jackson Cotton, compiled and introduced by Jane Cooper, with a prologue by historian Henry Reynolds and notes by historian Nick Clements. The material is presented as Tasmanian Aboriginal mythology and history handed down through five generations of the Cotton family, who settled on Tasmania's East Coast in the 1820s.
Keith Windschuttle's controversial challenge to the accepted historiography of Tasmania's frontier period. Published in 2003, this first volume of The Fabrication of Aboriginal History focuses on Van Diemen's Land from 1803 to 1847 — covering the period of the Black War and the removal of the surviving Aboriginal population to Flinders Island.

