Peter MacFie was a sixth-generation Tasmanian with many years’ experience as a public historian, including eight years as the resident historian at Port Arthur Historic Site from 1983-91. His areas of special interest were:
Colonial life: craftsmen, tradesmen, artists
Land use: farming, gardens, forestry, mining, conservation
Convict period and related sites (especially Port Arthur and Tasman Peninsula)
Despite the death of Peter Macfie on 28 April 2022, it was his wish that his website be retained to make his existing books and papers and also his currently unpublished history research accessible. Peter’s completed books are for sale through his Shop, while links to many of his other works are available through his Publications and Projects, arranged by publication date. Many of these also have an online index to aid in searches.
See No Evil – now available for purchase through the Shop or from:
Long before his death, Peter MacFie wrote of his early life on The Glebe in Hobart. However, he had trouble deciding when to call it completed. His brother Rob then encouraged him to ‘set it free’ by helping select family photos and Peter was able to approve a draft print before it was too late. Here, Peter tells how the war’s aftermath was not always happy for his parents, but gave himself the freedom for a (mostly) magic childhood running wild on The Domain in Hobart. He was also particularly proud of his assorted convict ancestry and concludes with a family tree. Read more about it here.
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Updated 25 July 2022 – note that website is being redesigned to accommodate more of Peter’s work. The links hopefully will remain intact. I hope.
