Books

Our second Van Diemen Anthology features articles from the eleven finalists in the 2020-2021 Van Diemen History Prize, as selected by Dr Kristyn Harman, Prof Stefan Petrow, Paige Gleeson and...

Nearly 6,000 children passed through the Orphan Schools in New Town (Hobart) from 1828 to 1879. Many were not orphans at all, but the children of convict mothers.  This book...

The true story of Irish women in the mid-1800s committing arson to be transported Between 1841 and 1853, nearly 250 women were transported from Ireland to Van Diemen’s Land for...

Florence Perrin (1884-1952) was many things, a bushwalker, botanic researcher, philanthropist and photographer. Why then did this prolific Tasmanian’s name almost disappear from recent history while her male friends, such...

Caves are places of wonder and mystery. By 1840 a Gothic regime of candles and bark torches heightened the thrill of the ‘Sublime’ within Wet Cave on Mole Creek, in...

Yeng goes to day care three days a week, and on the way he and his mum have wonderful adventures. They walk past beautiful gardens of native plants, look through...