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  2. Max Oldaker

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/O/Oldaker.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Max Oldaker. Max Oldaker's parents listening to him performing on the radio (AOT, PH30/1/3548). Maxwell Charles Oldaker (1907–72), singer and actor, was born and educated in Devonport, but left there in 1930 to establish his career in England. He

  3. Maude Poynter

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Poynter.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Maude Poynter. Maude Poynter (1869–1945), potter and painter, grew up in Victoria, studied painting and pottery in England, worked as a VAD during the First World War, and in 1918 moved to Ratho, at Bothwell. A resourceful woman, she built a

  4. Roger and Katherine Scholes

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Scholes.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Roger and Katherine Scholes. An advertisement for Katherine Scholes' book The Stone Angel. Roger and Katherine Scholes (b 1950, 1959) film producers, writers. Roger has been an independent film and television maker since 1983, after gaining Best

  5. Jan and Beryl Sedivka

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Sedivka.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Jan and Beryl Sedivka. Sedivka, Jan AM (b 1917) and Beryl (b 1928), musicians. Born in Czechoslovakia, Jan studied violin with Sevcik and Kocian. He taught and performed in England before coming to Tasmania in 1966. As Director of the Tasmanian

  6. Amy Sherwin

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Sherwin.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Amy Sherwin. Amy Sherwin (AOT, PH30/1/3911). Frances Amy Lillian Sherwin (1855–1935), soprano, was born near Huonville. She sang at local concerts from an early age. In 1878, members of the Pompei and Cagli Italian Opera Company were picnicking

  7. Lawyers

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/L/Lawyers.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Lawyers. Lawyers first appeared before the Lieutenant-Governor's Court, which opened in 1816. Prominent 'law agents', as they were called, included ex-convicts Robert Lathrop Murray and William Adams Brodribb, John Pascoe Fawkner and some women,

  8. Prisons

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Prisons.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Prisons. Henry Melville, 'His Majesty's Jail, Hobart Town', 1834 (W. L. Crowther Library, SLT). Prisons developed directly in association with the system of convict transportation. Over fifty years from 1803 to 1853, 73,500 convicts were transported

  9. 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).

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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.

  20. 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

  21. 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
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