Lucy Frost is an Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Tasmania, and has spent a career researching and writing about nineteenth-century women and children. Andrew’s PhD was on the political constitution of ‘islandness’ in Tasmania, and he is passionate about reflection and research on what it means to be ‘Tasmanian’. Andrew Harwood is a lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Tasmania.
He is currently working on a new history of the British Invasion of Australia.ĭr. His books include 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and the Conquest of Australia (also now available in a new edition!), Losing Streak: How Tasmania was Gamed by the Gambling Industry and Imperial Mud: The Fight for the Fens. James Boyce is a multi-award-winning writer and historian. On the launch of a new edition of Van Diemen’s Land, esteemed scholars and writers, Lucy Frost and Andrew Harwood will reflect with James on historical understandings of convict society and how ‘Van Diemen’s Land’ still shapes ‘Tasmania’.
Fullers Bookshop, 131 Collins Street, Hobart, 7000 TASįirst published in 2008, James Boyce’s now classic tome, Van Diemen’s Land, was described as “the most significant history since The Fatal Shore” by Richard Flanagan, and awarded both the Tasmania Book Prize and Colin Roderick Literary Award.
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