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  2. Phoenix Ironworks

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Phoenix.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Phoenix Ironworks. The Phoenix Ironworks was founded in Launceston in 1860 by millwright William Henry Knight. Initially he imported and manufactured agricultural equipment, and was a traditional millwright for the flour and sawmilling industries.
  3. Ritchie Milling Dynasty

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Ritchie.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Ritchie Milling Dynasty. The mill at Scone (AOT, PH30/1/1150). The Ritchie milling dynasty began with Thomas Ritchie, who by 1834 had built a flourmill at Scone, near Perth. Sons Thomas, John and George were involved with milling in Longford, but it
  4. Strikes

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Strikes.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Strikes. Workers have used a range of collective methods to maintain or improve their working conditions, ranging from mass absconding, making demands or petitions, to imposing work bans, but strikes – or the temporary withdrawal of labour – are
  5. Museums

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/M/Museums.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Museums. Samuel Clifford's photograph of what was to become the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1862 (W. L. Crowther Library). The collecting and study of Australia's unique flora and fauna began with the first explorers, and this quest for
  6. Croquet

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Croquet.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Croquet. Croquet appealed to all ages and both sexes: a party at Bishopscourt, Hobart, about 1880 (ALMFA, SLT). Croquet arrived in Tasmania in the 1860s, but from the 1880s was overshadowed in popularity by tennis. Some felt this a pity since
  7. Cycling

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Cycling.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Cycling. A cycling race at Cambridge, 1908 (AOT, PH30/1/4327). Cycling has attracted enthusiastic support in Tasmania since the 1880s, when the first cycling clubs in Launceston and Hobart organised race meetings, but it really became popular in the
  8. Netball

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/N/Netball.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Netball. Netball, then known as 'basketball', was introduced to Tasmania in the 1890s, becoming a popular winter sport in schools, mainly for girls, though some boys played. After the First World War it became popular among adult women, and in the
  9. The Mercury

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/M/Mercury.htm
    25 Jun 2012: The Mercury. The Mercury office in 1920 (AOT, PH30/1/5440). The Mercury began in 1853 when John Davies, a former convict, bought a Hobart newspaper, the Guardian, and the following year renamed it the Hobarton Mercury. It first appeared as a
  10. Defence

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/D/Defence.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Defence. Alfred Winter ,'Group of military volunteers', c 1880 (W. L. Crowther Library, SLT). Defence, in terms of resistance to invasion, was a life and death issue for Aboriginal Tasmanians in the first thirty years of the nineteenth century. The
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    Time Management, Planning and Organisation

    https://www.utas.edu.au/study/short-courses/professional-skills/time-management,-planning-and-organisation-public
    30 Jan 2024: Learn how to manage deadlines, meet targets, and improve your performance in the workplace.
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