Civil Engineer Lindsay Whitham has been researching and writing papers on Tasmanian History for over thirty years. He has written biographies of R.W. Lord, the first manager of the Tasmanian Government Railways, of the Robeys of South Maria and of his uncle Charles Whitham (1873 - 1940). The Tasmanian Historical Research Association recently published his eighteen papers in a book entitled, Railways, Mines, Pubs and People.