A program of monthly public lectures showcasing current research on Tasmanian history has been at the core of THRA’s activity since 1951. These lectures have been recorded and published online since 2015. Some podcasts have a PDF of images that accompany the talk. Please click on More Details to find the PDF.
Eldershaw Lecture - Michael Bennett, Keeping Tasmania Safe: Smallpox, quarantine and vaccination in nineteenth century Tasmania
Published: Wednesday, 13 April 2022More details
March - Diane Snowden, The Royal Agricultural Show of Tasmania
Published: Friday, 11 March 2022More details
Kristyn Harman, Floating Frontiersmen and Illicit Informal Economies in Britain’s Antipodean Colonies
Published: Wednesday, 15 December 2021More details
November - Graeme Broxam, John Scott, sealer of Bass Strait and his Tasmanian Aboriginal descendants
Published: Wednesday, 10 November 2021More details
Alison Alexander - Tasmania v the British Empire: the battle to end transportation
Published: Wednesday, 13 October 2021More details
Kirstie Ross, Tasmania’s mystery train hikes of 1932 and the commercialisation of bushwalking
Published: Friday, 17 September 2021More details