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Audio Visual Collection

Burnie Regional Museum oral histories, Burnie Historical Society Guest speakers cover a wide range of historical topics with a focus on local people and places.

Karl Rowbottom

Pharology (the study of Lighthouses!)

Ken Hancock

The early years of the Pulp, Hancock Motors and Radio in Burnie

Jenny Pearce

Gustav Weindorfer and his home in the mountains ‘Waldheim'

Dr Ian McFarlane

Van Diemen's Land: An Aboriginal History

Dr Ian McFarlane - Audience Q&A

Van Diemen's Land: An Aboriginal History - guest speaker talk 17 July 2014

Brian Rollins

Why the Bay under Round Hill Point? – How Burnie came to be

Libby Mercer

Life for the Easton family as early settlers in the North-West

Geoff Dean and Allan Jamieson

The Van Diemen’s Land Company: The First 100 years

Peter Mercer

Bushranging and Piracy: The Bradley and O’Connor Story

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