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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 (Editors)
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. Hobart, in conjunction with Tasmania University Union, 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, F. A. (compiler) and SPROD, M. N. (editor)
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 (editors), 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 recently 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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