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  2. John Eldershaw

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/E/Eldershaw.htm
    25 Jun 2012: John Eldershaw. John Eldershaw's dwelling, a former mill at Richmond (AOT, PH30/1/4651). John Roy Eldershaw (1892–1973), artist, was a landscape painter in watercolour. He studied in Sydney under Julian Ashton and at the JS Watkins School, then

  3. Olegas Truchanas

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/T/Truchanas.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Olegas Truchanas. Olegas Truchanas (1923–72), photographer, explorer, 1960s pioneer conservationist; Lithuanian migrant to Tasmania, 1948, and staff member, Head Office, Hydro-Electric Commission, Hobart. Dismayed by the Commission's plan to

  4. Philip Wolfhagen

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/W/Wolfhagen.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Philip Wolfhagen. Philip Gerrit Wolfhagen (b 1963) artist. A painter who lives and works in Longford, Philip Wolfhagen is recognised nationally for his landscapes in oil and beeswax on linen. He completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Tasmanian

  5. Semaphore and Signalling

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Semaphore.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Semaphore and Signalling. Charlotte Cleveland's depiction of 'The Flag Staff station. Launceston', 1854 (ALMFA, SLT). Governor Macquarie ordered the first signal station in Tasmania, erected on Mount Nelson near Hobart in 1811. Signalling by means

  6. Education

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/E/Education.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Education. Charles Street State School, Launceston (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). There were children among the earliest settlers of Van Diemen's Land, but there is no record of any schooling until 1806 when Jane Noel, a teacher from Sydney, is said to

  7. Franchise

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/F/Franchise.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Franchise. Athol Townley voting in Hobart, 1960 (AOT, PH30/1/3558). Franchise, or voter enrolment, was determined by income, property, education and gender between 1851 and 1903, when universal adult suffrage was instituted for the House of Assembly.

  8. Governors

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/G/Governors.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Governors. The importance of gubernatorial patronage displayed in an advertisement by H Higgins, butcher, in 1893. (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). The office of governor is the oldest in Tasmania's two centuries' experience of European settlement, and

  9. Secession

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Secession.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Secession. Secession talk reflected anti-federal feeling in Tasmania in the 1920s and 1930s. Although Tasmania had favoured federation, relations with the commonwealth government were fragile and Tasmanians voted against increasing central power. In

  10. Scheelite

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Scheelite.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Scheelite. Australia's largest scheelite (calcium tungstate) deposit was found by Thomas Farrell in 1904, on King Island. The deposit was world class in terms of size, containing 17 million tonnes of 0. 85 percent tungstate. The mineralisation is

  11. Surveyors

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Surveyors.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Surveyors. Not exactly working, but at least out in the field: Mr Davidson (left), a surveyor, with companions Mayton and Watson at Swansea in 1859 (ALMFA, SLT). Surveyors were vital in Tasmania's early British settlements, to set out roads, bridges
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