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PUBLICATIONS
AVAILABLE FOR SALE
All prices include 10% GST.
Postage and packing costs are extra.
Papers
and Proceedings:
$10 per issue published before 2009
$14 per issue published in 2009 and after
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INDEXES
to Papers and Proceedings
Index
to Volumes 1 - 30 (1951-1983) $25.00
Index to
Volumes 31 - 40 (1984-1993) $25.00
Index to
Volumes 41 - 50 (1994-2003) $25.00
All three volumes purchased $65.00
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DAVIS
Richard and Petrow Stefan (Eds)
Varieties
of Vice Regal Life by Sir William and Lady Denison
Hobart,
2004.
Members
price: $25.00
Non-members price: $35.00
The Tasmanian memoirs of Sir William
Denison, governor of Van Diemen's Land at the end of convict
transportation. Essential reading for anyone interested in this
defining period of Tasmanian and Australian history.
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WHITHAM,
Lindsay
Railways,
Mines, Pubs and People Hobart, 2002.
Members
price: $20.00
Non-members price: $25.00
A popular volume of eighteen of
Lindsay Whitham's papers presented to the Tasmanian Historical Research
Association. The result of correspondence, interviews, archival and
literary searches as well as extensive field studies in Tasmania.
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ROE,
Michael
The State of
Tasmania: Identity at Federation Time
Hobart, 2001.
Members
price: $20.00
Non-members price: $30.00
Michael Roe's unique study of the
State of Tasmania at Federation, the effects of the Transvaal War,
Federation, Royal Visits and the tensions of state and federal politics.
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ROE,
Michael
Life Over
Death: Tasmanians and Tuberculosis
(with a specialist chapter by Richard Wood-Baker).
Hobart, 1999.
Members
price: $16.50
Non-members price: $23.00
Michael Roe investigates the
experience of tuberculosis in Tasmania from prehistoric to recent times.
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ALEXANDER,
Alison
Students First:
Tasmania University Union 1899-1999
In
conjunction with Tasmania University Union, Hobart, 1999.Members
price: $27.50
Non-members price: $33.00
A study of the Tasmanian University
Union, founded in 1899 to encourage sport and social life amongst
students.
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KILLALEA,
Anne
The Great
Scourge: the Tasmanian Infantile Paralysis Epidemic of 1937-38 Hobart,
1996.
Members
price: $11.00
Non-members price: $18.50
The story of the 1937-38 outbreak of
poliomyelitis in Tasmania, when the state suffered the largest per
capita outbreak of the disease in the western world. Much of the book
is based on the poignant stories of survivors of the outbreak.
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PETROW,
Stefan
Sanatorium of
the South? Public Health and Politics in Hobart and Launceston
1875-1914
Hobart, 1995.
Members
price: $11.00
Non-members price: $18.50
An examination of infectious disease
epidemics in Tasmania in the late nineteenth century, their causes and
how municipal public health authorities responded to them.
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VERNON,
FA (compiler) and SPROD, MN (ed.)
The Whitehead
Letters. Tasmanian Society and Politics 1871-1882
Hobart,
1991.
Members
price: $15.00
For non-members this book is now only available from Astrolabe
Booksellers - see www.astrolabebooks.com.au
The letters of John Whitehead MHA from
Nile in Northern Tasmania in the late nineteenth century are an
invaluable primary source for this period of Tasmania's history.
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ELDERSHAW,
Peter Ross
Guide to the
Public Records Office.
(Colonial Secretary's Office, Governor's Office and the Convict
Department)
Hobart, 1968.
Members
price: $5.50
Non-members price: $9.00
Peter Eldershaw's introductions to his
indispensable guidebooks to some of the richest colonial records.
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PLOMLEY,
N J B
An Immigrant of
1824. (George Augustus Robinson)
Hobart, 1973.
Members
price: $5.50
Non-members price: $9.00
A discussion of the sea voyage to Van
Diemen's Land faced by immigrants in the mid 1820s and seen through the
eyes of George Augustus Robinson, soon to become a central figure in
colonist.
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LONG, Chris
Tasmanian
Photographers 1840 - 1940: a directory. edited by Gillian Winter.
Hobart, in conjunction with Tasmanian Museum
and Art Gallery, 1995.
Note - this book is now only available from
the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery.
The following
THRA publications are now out-of-print but copies may be available from
time to time.
GLOVER, Margaret and MacLOCHLAINN, Alf
(eds), 2005
Letters of an Irish
Patriot: William Paul Dowling in Tasmania
TARDIF, Phillip
John Bowen's Hobart.
The Beginning of European Settlement in Tasmania, Hobart,
2003
YOUNG, David
Making Crime Pay: The
Evolution of Convict Tourism in Tasmania, Hobart, 1996.
HARRISON, A. J.
Savant of the
Australian Seas: William Saville-Kent (1845-1908), Hobart,
1997.
ALEXANDER, Alison
Governors' Ladies.
Hobart, 1987. (This book has been republished by Montpelier
Press under the title Obliged to Submit )
HEARD, Dora ed.
The Journal of
Charles O'Hara Booth: Commandant of the Port Arthur Penal Settlement,
Hobart, 1981
HERR, R A ed.
A Solomons Sojourn: J
E Philp's Log of the Makira 1912-1913, Hobart, 1978.
BROWN, Joan C
Poverty is not a
Crime. Social Services in Tasmania. 1803-1900, Hobart,
1972.
BENNETT, Scott (editor)
A Home in the
Colonies: Edward Braddon's Letters to India from North-West Tasmania,
1878, Hobart, 1980.
All enquiries for the
out-of-print publications immediately above can be directed to:
Astrolabe Books,
First Floor, 81 Salamanca Place, Hobart.
Postal address: PO Box 475 SANDY BAY Tas 7006
Phone/Fax: 6223 8644
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