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  2. Clarence

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Clarence.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Clarence. View of Bellerive, about 1920 (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Clarence was for thousands of years home to Aborigines, and was in 1803 the site of the first European settlement under Bowen. This failed, but from 1808 ex-convicts and others set
  3. Franklin

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/F/Franklin.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Franklin. HH Baily, 'Township of Franklin, Huon River', 1875 (W. L. Crowther Library, SLT). Franklin's first settler was said to be a 'bolter' named Martin in 1822, though the first official settler was John Price who purchased land in 1836. Lady
  4. Lavender

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/L/Lavender.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Lavender. Lavender is produced on perhaps the largest scale in the world on the Bridestowe Estate at Nabowla, north-eastern Tasmania. It was first planted at nearby Lilydale in 1921 by the Denny family, using imported true lavender (Lavandula
  5. Potatoes

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Potatoes.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Potatoes. Potatoes being inspected and weighed, 1912 (AOT, PH30/1/4936). Potatoes have thrived in Tasmanian soil since they were first planted from seed at Risdon Cove by Lieutenant Bowen in 1803, and in 1826 the Van Diemen's Land Company sent the
  6. Families

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/F/Families.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Families. The Smith family in 1892 (ALMFA, SLT). Life in nineteenth-century white families was similar to that in Britain, where the middle-class ideal of a husband with dependent wife and children was influential. The husband's earnings and the wife
  7. Feminism

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/F/Feminism.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Feminism. Feminism in Tasmania, along with its counterpart movements in other states, was largely a product of the twentieth century and can be dated from the late stages of the nineteenth century, fuelled largely by the demand for female suffrage.
  8. Refugees

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Refugees.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Refugees. The United Nations Convention of 1951 defines a refugee as a person who 'owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside
  9. Shooting

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Shooting.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Shooting. A shooter's bag, or a brace of wattle birds and several quail, 1860s (ALMFA, SLT). Shooters in the bush, with carcases of both native and introduced animals hanging around them (AOT, PH30/1/2248). Shooting arrived in Tasmania with Europeans
  10. Softball

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Softball.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Softball. Softball entered Tasmania after the Second World War, and the first intrastate game, South v North-West, was played in 1949. Softball was popular in schools as a team sport for girls, and as a summer game for those who played hockey or
  11. Swimming

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Swimming.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Swimming. Swimming the natural way, Maria Island (AOT, PH30/1/5810). Swimming was enjoyed by Tasmanians through the nineteenth century. The Sandy Bay Amateur Swimming Club, formed in 1898, was the first swimming club in Tasmania, and is one of the
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