Read the July 2026 Launceston Historical Society Newsletter here: No 204 July 2026

Find out what’s happening:

• Sunday 19 July, Alistair Scott will provide a brief history of the Point Puer Boys Establishment and describe the treatment of the boys held there.
• Sunday 16 August, Anne Green will tell us about the response to perceived threats to our safety and fear in the psyche of Tasmania.
• Sunday 20 September, Jen Thompson will retrace the steps Thomas Jeffrey took on his murderous trail from George Town to Roses Rivulet.
• List of other lectures for 2026
• National Family History Month events at Launceston Library
• Advance notice of the 200^th Anniversary of Mechanics’ Institutes in 2027
• 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 historian Stefan Petrow on the Early Mechanics’ Institutes in Tasmania

Sunday, 21 March 2027 at 2 pm at the Meeting Room, Queen Victoria Museum, Inveresk. 

More information can be found here: John West Memorial Lecture

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