Tasmanian Times
History
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3.9KHenry Savery: A Biography
Tasmania can claim Australia's first published novelist, Henry Savery.
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Aboriginal Grassland Savannah in Tasmania
This rainforest was once a grassland savannah maintained by Aboriginal people – until colonisation If you go to the Surrey Hills of...
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Point Puer
Learn about Point Puer, site of the British Empire's first prison for boys, in this brief history.
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Explorer, Coloniser, Navigator: James Cook’s Legacy
Explorer, navigator, coloniser: revisit Captain Cook’s legacy with the click of a mouse Captain James Cook arrived in the Pacific 250 years...
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Tas That Was – Port Arthur: Touchstone of History (1985)
Watch the documentary film below to learn about the restoration and conservation of Port Arthur during the 1980s. Many of Port Arthur’s...
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The Crowther Diaries
Of the 330,000 Australian soldiers who fought in World War I, thousands of them kept a diary. Sir William Edward Lodewyck Hamilton...
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Tas That Was – A Hobart ANZAC Day Parade in the mid-1950s
“They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Hobart Anzac Day Age shall not weary them, nor the...
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Tas That Was – The 1967 Bushfires
On Tuesday, 7 February 1967, 110 fires swept through south-east Tasmania. Within hours, around 2,640 square kilometres (652,000 acres) of land had...
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William Lyttleton Quamby, Tasmanian Aboriginal Resistance Fighter – Part 2
John Hawkins concludes his 2 part series on Tasmanian resistance fighter William Quamby, focussing on conversion of Aboriginal fire-farmed land into pastoral...
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The Cascade Brewery: A Short History
The Cascade Brewery, located in the foothills of Mount Wellington, is the oldest brewery still in operation in Australia. At its peak...
