The biography of much-loved painter Patricia Giles, who from the 1950s brought the wilderness to Tasmanians in her watercolours. Painted from the heart, they show her love for the Tasmanian bush.
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Published:2015Hobart’s first tycoons and how they got there – a story of widespread corruption by almost everyone in early Van Diemen’s Land.
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Published:2013What a woman! Intelligent, capable if eccentric, interested in everything from ridding Tasmania of snakes to building a Greek museum – and finding her husband’s fate.
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Published:2015South Hobart is a charming suburb with a fascinating history: industrial activity, the Female Factory, developing residential areas amid great scenic beauty.
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Published:2013From 1917 to 1939 Marie Bjelke-Petersen published nine heart-throbbing, pulsating romantic novels set mainly in Tasmania – though she herself was a lesbian.
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Published:2012Aborigines, bushrangers, convicts, grasping landowners, embezzling town clerk, publicans, sportsmen and women – the Southern Midlands has them all.
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Published:2010Tasmania started as the society with the most felons: what effect did this have? This book describes the convict system and its results, up to the present.
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Published:2010The care of children with handicaps, and attitudes to them, has changed enormously since the 1950s, but the love and devotion at Oak Tasmania remain unaltered.
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Published:2010The University of Tasmania’s first residential college, founded in 1950: student life, pranks, work, and changing attitudes.
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Published:2009A legal firm, starting in early colonial days, developing and growing into a modern dynamic firm.
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Published:2006Just the history of the council, not the whole city: how the administration and its activities changed over a century and a half.
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Published:2006
An early agricultural area, now partly urbanised, with many fascinating aspects: Australia’s oldest family farm, Hobart’s first aerodrome, a vibrant modern council.
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Published:2006Old age care has changed immensely since the home was opened – a fascinating story of dedicated care and adaptation to change.
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Published:2005A compendium of 1075 articles by 105 covering every aspect of Tasmania’s history.
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Published:2003
Everything possible about Clarence: city and country, agriculture and industry, sport, schools, big events, the way people have lived, churches, hospitals, wartime …
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Published:2001The lives of Australia’s women, recreated from many stories sent in to the Office of the Status of Women in Canberra.
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Published:2000The activities of uni students over a century, from pranks to serious pursuits – and those pranks of the 1920s were pretty exciting.
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Published:2000In fact the story of many Tasmanian credit unions which united to form Island State, now part of MyState.
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Published:1999A photographic collection illustrating the activities of students over a century.
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Published:1998This was my first commissioned history. Glenorchy is the northern half of Hobart, and has always had a distinct personality of its own, less public service and government than Hobart, more industrial and working-class. I grew up there and have a fond spot for it. In 1983 the Glenorchy City Council...
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Published:1998From convict to tinsmith to industrialist/shopkeeper, developing one of Tasmania’s biggest businesses which remained in the family for three generations, but is now gone.
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Published:1996The oldest continuing school in Australia, Launceston Grammar has a great story: different educational styles, headmasters, varied students and background situations.
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Published:1996What a wonderful time I had writing this book, the story of a marvellous community club, its highs and lows, premierships and wooden spoons.
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Published:1994A short history of only twelve years, but a fascinating story of training all sorts of people for maritime activity.
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Published:1992The Zinc Works has a fascinating story: from the pioneer activity of 1916 to the huge giant, Hobart’s largest employer, of the 1950s, then change under different owners.
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Published:1991The Zinc Works bosses combatted unionism by employer-worker united action. They set up a community council to organise welfare schemes, and this is its story.
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Published:1986
A school text book for primary schools, now out of print.
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Published:1986What stories of immorality and corruption I uncovered researching and writing this book! The most popular book I have written
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Published:1986The second volume of Glenorchy’s history, as it develops in size, population and activities from 1964 to 1998 ,when it was threatened with amalgamation with Hobart.
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Published:1979From 1910 to 1942 Mary Grant Bruce wrote 38 children’s books, notably the Billabong series, much-loved classics of Australia station life.