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  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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.
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. Zoom Overview - MyLO - My Learning Online

    https://www.utas.edu.au/mylo/staff/staff-resources/web-conferencing/web-conferencing-overview
    15 Feb 2023: Search UTAS. Search. Menu. I am a:. Popular Links. Our Research. Graduate Research. Community. Engagement. Our University. Campuses & Services. News, Events & Publications. Quick Links. MyLO - My Learning Online. Zoom Overview. Zoom Web conferencing
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    Elite Athlete Recognition Application

    https://www.utas.edu.au/uni-life/support-and-wellbeing/elite-athlete/application-form
    5 Oct 2023: Elite Athlete Recognition Application. Elite Athlete Recognition Application. Do you compete in high level sport and believe you meet the meet the eligibility criteria for the program? Have you been accepted into your University of Tasmania course
  18. Female Factories

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/F/Female%20factories.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Female Factories. The Hobart Female Factory, 1860s, by Robert Beauchamp (W. L. Crowther Library, SLT). Female Factories were established in Van Diemen's Land primarily as places of punishment for women charged with further offences after their
  19. Probation System

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Probation%20system.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Probation System. Impression Bay Probation Station, c 1850 (W. L. Crowther Library, SLT). The Probation System was an experiment in penal discipline unique to Van Diemen's Land. Introduced in 1839, it was modified several times from 1846 until it was
  20. Female Franchise

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/F/Female%20franchise.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Female Franchise. Able to vote: Tasmanian nurses, 1902 (AOT, PH30/1/5320). Female Franchise was actively campaigned for in Tasmania from the early 1890s, and in 1902 women were given the right to vote in federal elections. Tasmanian women became
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    Writing Revolutionary Era British Lives

    https://www.utas.edu.au/research/degrees/available-projects/projects/humanities/writing-revolutionary-era-british-lives
    19 Jun 2024: Writing Revolutionary Era British Lives. Writing Revolutionary Era British Lives. Degree type. PhD. Closing date. 1 October 2024. Campus. Hobart. Citizenship requirement. Domestic / International. About the research project. This project invites a
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