Read the December 2024 Launceston Historical Society Newsletter here: 196 December 2024

Find out what’s coming up in 2025

• Summary of the October 2024 meeting with Lucy Frost, Children at Work, Orphan School apprentices in Launceston and the Tamar Valley
• Summary of the November 2024 meeting with Darren Watton & John Dent, Perth Gaol Archaeology Dig
• Report on the Perth Cottage Archaeological Dig
• Articles on the Latrobe excursion and Primary History Prize
• List of ‘Our History’ stories

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

Have a Merry Christmas and see you again on Sunday, 16 February 2025 for our AGM and presentation on Launceston’s early Court Records.

Commander Stephen Cornish RAN 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 2024 John West Memorial Lecture was delivered by Associate Professor Kristyn Harman on the topic “A Good Riddance: The Inception of Criminal Deportation in Colonial Australia” on Sunday 17 March at 2 pm at the Meeting Room, Queen Victoria Museum, Inveresk. The written version can be read here: https://launcestonhistory.org.au/activities/john-west-lecture/

The Launceston Primary School History Prize for 2024 is now open.

Be in the running to win book vouchers from Petrarch’s Bookshop by doing some historical research and presenting it in a short video or project.

Open to all students from the Launceston area in grades 3 – 6.

More information and entry forms for 2024 is available here: https://launcestonhistory.org.au/activities/history-prize/

History Prize Flyer – Teachers

History Prize Flyer – Students

ALSO

The Marita Bardenhagen Memorial Award for Local History is a biennial prize acknowledging outstanding original research in the field of local history with significant Tasmanian content.

The 2023 Award opens on 14 June and closes on 30 September. 

Application forms are available from Dr Dianne Snowden AM at dsnowden@tassie.net.au.

The 2021 winner was Jill Cassidy for her book Deviot Talks. She was awarded $1,500.