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  2. Gale Family

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/G/Gambling.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Gambling. Gambling at Elwick Racecourse (AOT, PH30/1/3632). Gambling had its roots in the pubs and sports of the early colonial period. By the mid-nineteenth century Hobart had 135 pubs. Gambling was based on cock-fighting, dog-fighting, horseracing

  3. Benjanim Duterrau

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/D/Duterrau.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Benjanim Duterrau. Benjamin Duterrau, 'G. A. Robinson with a group of Van Diemen's Land natives', 1835, (ALMFA, SLT). Benjanim Duterrau (1767–1851), artist, was born in England and trained as an engraver. In 1832 he migrated to Van Diemen's Land

  4. Michael Sharland

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Sharland.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Michael Sharland. Michael Sharland and friends campingat Lake Dobson, 1921 (AOT, PH30/1/1052I). Michael Stanley Reid Sharland (1899–1987), journalist, ornithologist, historian and author, was born in Bellerive. He was educated in Campbell Town and

  5. Spurling Family

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Spurling.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Spurling Family. 'Corra Linn Bridge' by Stephen Spurling II, 1879 (W. L. Crowther Library, SLT). The Spurling family (Stephen I 1821–92; Frederick 1850–1942; Stephen II 1847–1924; Stephen III 1876–1962), photographers. Stephen I's known

  6. TasDance

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/T/Tasdance.htm
    25 Jun 2012: TasDance. TasDance was established in Launceston in 1981 as Australia's first dance-in-education company. Under the artistic direction of Jenny Kinder, TasDance developed a unique Schools Residency Programme, through which the company became

  7. Pharmacy

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Pharmacy.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Pharmacy. The pharmacy at the Zeehan hospital, probably c 1900 (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Pharmacy began in Van Diemen's Land with the supply of medicines by military surgeons and dispensers. As the number of free settlers grew, traders with

  8. Treasury

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/T/Treasury.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Treasury. Charles Atkinson, 'Treasury', 1833 (ALMFA, SLT). In 1804, at the Derwent settlement, the main functions of a treasury were provided through the local office of the Commissariat of Stores and Provisions. Leonard Fosbrook, the head of the

  9. Henry Reynolds

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Reynolds.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Henry Reynolds. Henry Reynolds (b 1938), historian, grew up in Hobart and was educated at Hobart High School and the University of Tasmania. In 1965 he accepted a lectureship at James Cook University in Townsville, which sparked an interest in the

  10. Ronald Sherriff

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Sherriff.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Ronald Sherriff. Ronald Sherriff (1931–1968), axeman, was born near Lefroy, northern Tasmania. From his early teens he worked mainly as a bushman. From 1953 until his death in a treefelling accident, Ron won 55 state, ten Australian and four world

  11. Frederick Smithies

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Smithies.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Frederick Smithies. Bushwalking in the Cradle Mountain–Lake St Clair National Park (Tasmaniana Libary, SLT). Frederick Smithies OBE (1885–1979), adventurous bushwalker and skier, a fearless climber and fine amateur photographer, whose passion

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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.

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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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