Read the April 2026 Launceston Historical Society Newsletter here: No 203 April 2026

Find out what’s happening:

• Sunday 19 April, our Anzac lecture focussing on the Perth community by Rosalie Triolo
• Sunday 17 May, Di Cassidy will speak about the Launceston Girls’ Industrial School
• Sunday 21 June, Julian Burgess will tell us about Launceston’s first church
• List of other lectures for 2026
• Archaeological dig at Braemar Cottage, off Vermont Road
• Other events of interest

Everyone is welcome to attend our monthly meetings to hear the speakers tell us more about our history. Admission is free for LHS members and $5 for visitors.

Bring cash for a chance to win a prize in the raffle.

Articles contributed by the Launceston Historical Society to The Examiner’s quarterly magazines ‘In the City’ and ‘Northern Exposure’ from 2017 to 2022. These can be read on the LHS Facebook page.

In the City and Northern Exposure articles

‘Our History’ articles were contributed by Launceston Historical Society members and published in The Sunday Examiner newspaper print and online editions for seven years from 3 December 2017 until 28 December 2024.

Most of these are available on the Launceston Historical Society Facebook page, although many of the earlier ones only have a link to The Examiner website.

OUR HISTORY STORIES

Commander Stephen Cornish RAN (15 December 1953 – 25 April 2025) presented an address on “A journey into family military history or how I became an historian by accident” to the Launceston Historical Society meeting on 16 April 2023.

The full address is posted here with illustrations:

Address to Launceston Historical Society by Stephen Cornish

The next John West Memorial Lecture will be delivered by historical archaeologist Brad Williams on the Exhumations at the former Queenborough Cemetery at Hutchins School, Hobart

Sunday, 15 March 2026 at 2 pm at the Meeting Room, Queen Victoria Museum, Inveresk. 

More information can be found here: 2026 John West Memorial Lecture

Listen to the previous lectures here: Previous John West Memorial Lectures