The Society publishes the John West Memorial Lecture and the papers delivered at its annual symposium in its Papers and Proceedings. Volumes of Occasional Papers are published from time to time. Most recent issues of the Papers and Proceedings and the Occasional Papers are available for purchase. Papers and Proceedings currently available Click on the year to review the Contents list for the volume 1991 Northern Tasmania 1891 1992 20th Century Launceston from the Perspective of the Examiner 1997 Princes Square 1998 Ships, Sailors and the Tamar 1999 Tasmanian Aborigines: Past and Present 2000 Aspects of Tasmania in the Twentieth Century: Developments in the Professions 2001 Federation 2002 Launceston Charitable Institutions and the Needy 2003 150 Years of Local Government in Launceston 2004 Exploring the discovery and settlement of northern Tasmania Occasional Papers currently available Click on the Volume number to review the Contents list for the volume Vol. 3 Remembering the 1939-45 War Vol. 4 150 Years of Anaesthesia Other publications currently available Click on the title for more details Launceston Churches of the 20th Century (pamphlet) Let’s Talk about Place Names (booklet)

Papers and Proceedings 1989 - Launceston and the 1840's Professor Henry Reynolds The Examiner-John West Memorial Lecture Tasmania's Forgotten Treaty G Hawley Stancombe Commerce in Launceston in 1842 Micheal Rowe Glimpses of Ideology, John West's pamphlets Eric Ratcliff The Town in 1842 Wayne Shipp Early History of the Port of Launceston Patricia Ratcliff Some Colonial Newspapers Michael Courtney The First Newspapers   Out of print 1990 - Fun and Games in Launceston Professor Manning Clark AC The Examiner-John West Memorial Lecture The Writing of Australian History Molly Hilyard Thinking as a Child Rick Smith John Arthur and George Bailey Peter and Gwenda Webb Fun and Games in the City Park Dennis Hodgkinson Pubs in Launceston Jenny Gill The diary of a Launceston gentlewoman Stewart Chapple Launceston cricket looks back Jack Branagan The sport of skiiing in Northern Tasmania   Out of print 1991 - Northern Tasmania Daniel Thomas, AM The Examiner-John West Memorial Lecture Tasmania's Contribution to the Advance of Art and Taste Ursula Smith Devonport in 1891 Jack Bentley Primary Industries: The District of Wynyard 1891 Jillian Koshin Transport and Employment in Tasmania 1891 Don Elmer Latrobe 1891 Sue Walden Chinese in the North-East Evelyn Vadasz Tasmanian Exhibition 1891 1992 - 20th Century Launceston from the Perspective of The Examiner Alison Alexander, Michael Roe and Dan Huon The Examiner-John West Memorial Lecture Launceston Examined: A city and its Newspaper 1842-1992 Marion Dowsett The Changing Face of the City Margaret Todd Three Epidemics - 1903-1938 Miranda Morris Women in the Workforce between the Two World Wars Lark Bushby Launceston Flood, April 1929 and Its Effect on the People of Inveresk Caryl Woof Launceston: 1952 and 1992 1993 - Towns of the Norfolk Plains Area Dr Marilyn Lake The Examiner-John West Memorial Lecture Gender and History: Lady Franklin and the Masculinity of Self Government G Hawley Stancombe Perth Di Sullivan Evandale Keith Kennedy-Tyson  W P Weston Leila Francombe Cressy Virginia Greenhill Westbury   Out of print 1994 - Family and History in Tasmania Professor Patricia Grimshaw The Examiner-John West Memorial Lecture Writing the History of Aboriginal and White Women in Colonial Tasmania Margaret Clare & Jillian Koshin Origins of a 19th century first generation Tasmanian family Thelma Grunnell Everone has one Shirley Jensen International Year of the Family: 1994 Karlena Lockett My family begins with me Jill Cassidy Discovering your family through oral history   Out of print 1995 - The Role of Northern Tasmania in The Move Towards Federation The Hon Justice Michael D Kirby AC, CMG The Examiner-John West Memorial Lecture John West, nationhood and the new milleneum Marion Dowsett Prelude to federation Patricia Ratcliff John West and editor's perceptions Jillian Koshin Patriotism in Northern Tasmania c.1890-1914 Sheila Burchill The public face of federation in Northern Tasmania   Out of print 1996 - Religious Diversity in Northern Tasmania Sister Veronica Brady PhD (Toronto) The Examiner-John West Memorial Lecture "To Set the People Free"; Conviction and Conscience. John West at the End of the Twentieth Century Mary & Joyce Padman The Uniting Church and its Antecedents Anne Maskell The Origins and Development of the Christian Brethren on the North-West Coast of Tasmania Beth Sandor The History of the Launceston Jewish Community Rowland B Ralph The Chinese Vestry   Out of print 1997 - Prince's Square Clement Mulcahy The Examiner-John West Memorial Lecture Sectarianism - a blessing or a curse; does Tasmania have a Cromwellian Legacy Sheila Burchill From Clay-Pit to a Prince's Square Jenny Gill St John's Church Barbara Valentine Owners and Occupiers: Properties facing Prince's Square Stewart Chapple People and Politics of the Square Lionel Morell The Architecture & National Significance of the Square Peter Webb Three Remarkable Clergymen     Reverend William Law     Reverend James Lindsay     Canon Marcus Brownrigg 1998 - Ships, Sailors and the Tamar Mr John Lyons, Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald The Examiner-John West Memorial Lecture Media at the Crossroads Peter Mercer Sea, Sun and Sextant: The European discovery, exploration and charting of Australian and Tasmanian waters and making them safe for navigation Sir Raymond Ferrall History of the River Tamar and the Port of Launceston J K Edwards Some Aspects of the More Recent History of the River Tamar and the Port of Launceston Captain Charles Black Spillcon 1996: Iron Baron Case Study Gwenda M Webb The East Arm Soldier Settlers 1829-1845 1999 - Tasmanian Aborigines: Past & Present Professor A G L Shaw AO The Examiner-John West Memorial Lecture John West's Tasmania Robin Sim Prehistoric Human Occupation in the Furneaux Region, Bass Strait Peter C Sims, OAM Thirty years recording Aboriginal sites in Tasmania Dr Eric Ratcliff Wybalenna: From Conciliation to Reconciliation Sarah Taylor Tasmanian Aboriginal Identity: The Controversy Uncovered John Taylor The Tasmanian Languages 2000 - Aspects of Tasmania in the Twentieth Century: Developments in the Professions The Honorable Sir Guy Green, AC, KBE, Governor of Tasmania The Examiner-John West Memorial Lecture Constitutionalism and the Two Cultures Peter Brooker Tasmanian Education in the Twentieth Century Jack Dunn Recollections of a Launceston Monumental Mason and Funeral Director Dr John Morris Changes in Fifty Years of Medicine Peter Richardson Launceston's Librarians: a Century of Change and Continuity John Wilson The Legal Profession in Launceston 1900 to 2000 2001 - Federation Professor Geoffrey Blainey AO The Examiner-John West Memorial Lecture How Six Became One: the Strange Story of the Creation of Australia's Commonwealth Sheila Burchill Celebrations in Launceston at the time of Federation Dr Richard Ely The Life and Work of Andrew Inglis Clark Prof Michael Roe In a State: Tasmania's polity under Federal Pressure 1901-4 Gwenda M Webb The First Members from Tasmania Elected to the First Federal Parliament 2002 - Launceston Charitable Institutions and the Needy Associate Professor Janet McCalman The Examiner-John West Memorial Lecture By way of Blessington: family histories, Aborigines, convicts and colonial officials Anne Bartlett John Tevelein and the Launceston Benevolent Society Barbara Valentine The Launceston City Mission Pat O'Halloran Some Facets of the History of the Society of St Vincent de Paul in Launceston during the Presidency of J.V. Sullivan, 1899 - 1937 D J (Don) Beasley The Salvation Army: Benevolence through the Years Andrew Piper Emancipists, destitution & infirmity: the role of the Cornwall Hospital 2003 - 150 Years of Local Government in Launceston Pofessor Stuart Macintyre The Examiner-John West Memorial Lecture ‘The slavish violence of mere servants of the people’: John West and the problem of responsible goverment Prof Michael Roe Glimpses of early assertion of Launceston's identity, culminating in the first municipal elections Dr Stephan Petrow A Municipal Heaven: Launceston 1870 to 1914 Gwenda Webb Launceston's First Aldermen Stewart  Chapple Launceston Mayors I have Known Dorothy Roseman Town Clerks of Launceston 1853-1983 Eric Ratcliff Launceston Town Hall Dr Jillian Koshin Chronology of 150 Years of Local Government in Launceston. 2004 - Exploring the discovery and settlement of northern Tasmania Mr Paul Brunton The Examiner-John West Memorial Lecture The Voyages of Abel Tasman 1642-44 Dr Shayne Breen The Tamar as Aboriginal Country Phillip Tardif Bowen's child, Mehan's Weakness,and the Risdon Settlers who came to Port Dalrymple John Dent Surveying Our Past: Exploration of Port Dalrymple1798-1811 Diane Phillips Early Settlement on the Tamar Dr Hamish Maxwell -Stuart Convicts Cost:   Years 1996 to 2002  2003 to 2004  $10.00 plus $2.00 postage & handling $15.00 plus $2.00 postage & handling Occasional Papers Vol 1   Paul Brunton The Mutiny on HMS Bounty Sir Raymond Ferrall History of the Tamar River Sir Phillip Bennett Government Houses of Tasmania Dr Stefan Petrow The Launceston Mechanics Institute 1842 - 1971 Kevin Green "A Superior Class of Immigrant" The Launceston and St Andrews Immigration Societies and the Immigrants they introduced to Tasmania   Out of print Vol 2   Sheila Burchill Edward Ackerman Anne Bartlett John Dell and the founding of Launceston Eric Ratcliff "A Permanent Advantage" Lorraine Macknight 'Launceston and All' Marion Dowsett Field Trip, Sunday 12 February Stefan Petrow The best governed city in Australia Bruce Scott Jackson's Lock and Brass Works   Out of print Vol 3 - Remembering the 1939-45 War Mrs Barbara Briggs An Italian prisoner of war on her family farm in North West Tasmania Mr Peter Webb The bombing of Darwin - a personal memoir Mrs Jean Wiberg A fabric-worker in the W.A.A.A.F. at Western Junction, 1942 - 1945 Mr Ernst Kropf A German in an Enemy Alien Camp in South Australia Mrs Shirley Thomas Childhood memories of Malta during the bombing of the island Mr Adye Rockliff Service in the Middle East, 1941 Mrs Caryl Woof A child in Britain during the war Mr John Kolkert Just another bl....Aussie Vol 4 - 150 Years of Anaesthesia Sir Guy Green Opening of Meeting of Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists, Launceston - Friday 6 June 1997 Dr Eric V R Ratcliff Pugh Oration (edited) Alan R Scott Jacob Mountgarrett 1773-1828 Paul Richards History of the Launceston General Hospital with particular reference to John Ramsay Surgeon Superintendent 1898-1912 Dr Gwen Wilson William Russ Pugh: Man of Mystery Donald Beard '47 - A Great Year; 1847 Surgery and Anaesthesia Launceston; 1947 Surgery and Anaesthesia Adelaide South Australia Stefan Petrow Dr Edward Swarbreck Hall: Tasmania's First Sanitarian Professor Barry Baker Crawford Williamson Long Professor Harry Ellis Royal Operations Members of LHS Prince's Square and Surroundings The cost for each of these volumes is $10.00 plus $2.00 postage & handling Other publications Launceston Churches of the 20th Century You can obtain a copy of this free pamphlet by sending a letter requesting a copy, together with a stamped, self-addressed envelope (22cm x 11cm), to the Society. Let’s Talk about Place Names compiled by John Taylor The origins of Tasmania’s place names Cost: $3.00 including postage Orders to PO Box 1296 LAUNCESTON Tasmania 7250