Tuesday, March 17 2026
Black and white view of the Old Launceston Gaol from Bathurst Street, showing high brick walls, a pedestrian passing and early twentieth century rooftops.

Crimes & Courts

Respectability on Trial: Little Southern Curiosities Volume II

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Rocky inlet on Tasmania’s west coat near Sandy Cape, with waves surging through jagged brown rocks under a bright sky.

Maritime & Exploration

The Tasmanian Globster of 1960: Sea Monster, Science and Myth

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Row of old workers’ cottages in Russell Street, Invermay — the neighbourhood where Syrian hawker Mary Patches lived and worked in early twentieth-century Launceston.

People & Stories

Mary Patches: The Story of Launceston’s Syrian Hawker

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📍Launceston and Hobart, Tasmania The skirt crackled when the nurses lifted it. At first they thought it was the old, weather worn fabric of the hawker’s clothing. But the sound was a dry papery rustle, not something you’d expect from calico or wool. One nurse pinched the hem and felt something stitched into the lining. […]

Hell's Gates lighthouse at the entrance to Macquarie Harbour, Tasmania, used as the hero image for Tamar Valley Tales' ABC Radio interview annoucement.

People & Stories

Tamar Valley Tales Interview with ABC’s Mel Bush: Talking Tasmanian Ghosts, Folklore and Hidden Histories

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Historic map of the Southern Ocean showing shipping routes and sub-Antarctic islands, from an early twentieth-century map held by the State Library of Victoria.

Maritime & Exploration

At the Edge of the World: Little Southern Curiosities Volume 1

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