Little more than 70 years after the British settled Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) in 1803, the indigenous community had been virtually wiped out.
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.
A collection of essays by Australian and international historians examining George Augustus Robinson's Friendly Mission — the journals Robinson kept during his time among the Aboriginal peoples of Van Diemen's Land from 1829 to 1834, edited by N.J.B. Plomley and republished in a second edition in 2008.
Patsy Cameron's examination of the blending of European and Aboriginal Tasmanian cultures on the islands of Bass Strait following European settlement — originally her doctoral thesis at the University of Tasmania, and the foundational academic work on this subject.
Trish Hodge, a Tasmanian Aboriginal woman and descendant of Mannalargenna, spent twenty years researching and documenting the traditional uses of more than 350 native Tasmanian plants — for food, medicine, tools and seasonal knowledge.

