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  2. Norman James Brian Plomley

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Plomley.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Norman James Brian Plomley. Norman James Brian Plomley AM (1912–94), one of the most respected and scholarly of historians writing about the Tasmanian Aborigines, was born in Sydney, and graduated BSc (Sydney, 1935) and MSc (Tasmania, 1947).

  3. Ricky Ponting

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Ponting.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Ricky Ponting. Ricky Ponting (b 1974), of Launceston, is Tasmania's highest-achieving cricketer. Small in stature, still boyish in face and manner, arguably the world's best fieldsman, he bats for Australia in the prime number three position. He

  4. Abalone

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/A/Abalone.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Abalone. Recherche Bay (AOT, PH30/1/3136). Abalone, blacklip and greenlip shellfish, was harvested by Aborigines, then Chinese miners. Chinese residents of Recherche Bay preserved abalone by smoking it, and exported some to Melbourne. European

  5. Roberts Limited

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Roberts.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Roberts Limited. George Anthony Kemp, a founder of Roberts (AOT, PH30/1/267). Roberts Limited began in 1865 when Henry Llewelyn Roberts, George Anthony Kemp and John William Abbott established a successful auctioneering business originally known as

  6. Snaring and Trapping

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Snaring.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Snaring and Trapping. Snaring and trapping of native mammals for their skins began with human occupation of Tasmania. While the activity occurred throughout the island, the most valuable skins were found in the high country where colder weather

  7. Muslim community

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/M/Muslims.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Muslim community. Muslims form 1. 5 percent of all Australians but only 0. 2 percent of Tasmanians, nearly two-thirds of them living in Hobart. Ethnically diverse, the community has drawn its numbers from Eastern Europe, West and Central Africa, and

  8. History

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/H/History.htm
    25 Jun 2012: History. History was taught in Tasmania as soon as schools were established: British history, learned by rote. When public examinations were established in 1860, History was a major subject, with factual questions ('Name the chief plots in Charles II

  9. Physics and Physicists

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Physics.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Physics and Physicists. A 1942 vice-regal visit to Leicester McAuley's retreat at the Great Lake, where he did much of his work (AOT, PH30/1/2711). The teaching of tertiary physics in Tasmania commenced at the newly established University of

  10. Cadbury

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Cadbury.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Cadbury. Harry Kelly, 'Cadbury's by mountain and sea, Claremont, Tasmania', 1950s (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). The chocolate house of Cadbury was founded in Birmingham, England in 1830 and began exports to Australia in 1881. After the First World War

  11. Exports

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/E/Exports.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Exports. Loading export apples on to a Europe-bound ship, Hobart wharves, 1890 (AOT, PH30/1/5607). Exports have a major impact on Tasmania's economic performance, as about half the state's products are sold either overseas or interstate. Since
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