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The story of Frederick Strange a convict transported to Van Diemen's Land who produced an important artistic record of Launceston and surrounds in the 1850s.
![The Evidence to the Bigge Reports – New South Wales Under Governor Macquarie | John Ritchie (Ed.) | 2-Volume Set | 1971 [USED – HCDJ]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/evidence-to-the-bigge-reports-8Sl6c5.png "The Evidence to the Bigge Reports – New South Wales Under Governor Macquarie | John Ritchie (Ed.) | 2-Volume Set | 1971 [USED – HCDJ]")
The primary source documents underlying John Thomas Bigge's 1822–1823 reports to the British Government on the state of New South Wales under Governor Lachlan Macquarie. Bigge was commissioned to investigate the running of the colony — its convict management, land grants, public works, and Macquarie's controversial policies — and his reports had significant consequences for the direction of Australian colonial administration.
![The Fabrication of Aboriginal History – Volume One: Van Diemen's Land 1803–1847 | Keith Windschuttle | 2003 [USED – HCDJ]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/the-fabrication-large-nf3EzZ.png "The Fabrication of Aboriginal History – Volume One: Van Diemen's Land 1803–1847 | Keith Windschuttle | 2003 [USED – HCDJ]")
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.
Kris Gatenby's account of the unsolved 1921 murder of thirteen-year-old Chrissie Venn near North Motton, Tasmania - a case that has puzzled Tasmanians for over a century. Signed by the author.
![The Fatal Shore – A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia 1787–1868 | Robert Hughes | 2003 [SC]](https://onlinestore.bookcellar.com.au/images/T/the-fatal-shore-softcover-gjm7So.png "The Fatal Shore – A History of the Transportation of Convicts to Australia 1787–1868 | Robert Hughes | 2003 [SC]")
Robert Hughes's landmark history of convict transportation to Australia — from the First Fleet in 1787 through to the end of transportation in 1868. Hughes documented the full scale and brutality of the transportation system — the ships, the prisons, the assignment system, the floggings, the Norfolk Island hell and Port Arthur, and the lives of the men, women and children transported from Georgian Britain to the other side of the world.
