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  2. Longford

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/L/Longford.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Longford. JS PRout, 'Longford', 1844 (ALMFA, SLT). Longford, a small rural town in northern Tasmania, is the centre of a large farming district. Prior to European settlement the Panninher Band of the North Midlands Tribe of Aborigines frequented the
  3. Oatlands

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/O/Oatlands.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Oatlands. Oatlands and Lake Dulverton, undated postcard (Tasmaniana Library). Oatlands, on the shores of Lake Dulverton, was named and selected as a township by Governor Macquarie on 3 June 1821, and by 1827 a survey and street plan had been laid
  4. Richmond

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Richmond.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Richmond. 'Richmond, Tas. from Butcher's Hill', 1888 (ALMFA, SLT). Originally inhabited by the Moomairremener people, the Richmond district was explored by surveyor James Meehan, who named the Coal River after the coal he found there. Land grants
  5. Smithton

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Smithton.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Smithton. Undated postcard of Smithton (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Smithton was first settled in 1856, but growth was slow. Forestry brought life to the region, with a thriving trade to Victoria in blackwood timber from the 1880s. The Duck River
  6. Westbury

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/W/Westbury.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Westbury. Postcard, c 1900, showing the villgae green and St Andrew's Church, Westbury (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Surrounded by hedgerows and lanes reminiscent of England, Westbury, like many other Tasmanian villages, was surveyed between 1823 and
  7. Buddhism

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Buddhism.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Buddhism. In 1919 Frank Woodward, teacher and Pali scholar, settled in Tasmania and for thirty years devoted himself to translating the Pali scriptures. He was the first Buddhist to reside in Tasmania, though possibly some of the Chinese miners
  8. Religion

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Religion.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Religion. All things change, but only ideas have histories. Historical understanding of religious ideas of Tasmanians over the last two centuries requires often complex investigation of legal, statistical, social, cultural, economic and political
  9. Russians

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Russians.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Russians. Russian warships visit Hobart, 1882: the Afric, Plastown and Vestric (AOT, PH30/1/1809). The first official Russian visit took place in 1823 (Kreiser and Ladoga), followed by the Boyarin (1870), a Russian naval squadron (1882) and the
  10. Jackson's Lock and Brass Works

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/J/Jacksons.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Jackson's Lock and Brass Works. Launceston at the time Francis Jackson founded his business (AOT, PH30/1/3018). Jackson's Lock and Brass Works was founded in Launceston in 1883 by Francis Jackson. By the 1920s he sold his locks all over Australia,
  11. Sweating

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Sweating.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Sweating. Sweating was the derogatory term used to describe the exploitation of workers, especially of women and children, who worked for low wages and long hours in poorly ventilated and insanitary factories and workshops or undertook outwork in
  12. Identity

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/I/Identity.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Identity. Tasmania is a much loved place. People from all walks of life express their affectionate identification with the Island without embarrassment, often without reservation. They do so in conversation and in print. Their enthusiasm immediately
  13. Scouting

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Scouting.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Scouting. Sheffield 1st Scout Group about 1930 (AOT, PH30/1/3814). Scouting first appeared in Tasmania in 1909, within a year of the publication in Britain of Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys. Small groups of boys in Hobart, Devonport and Wynyard,
  14. Trotting

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/T/Trotting.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Trotting. Trotting races were popular from the 1820s, first on public roads: in 1825 a trotting match was held at Hobart on the Port Dalrymple Road for a wager of a hundred ewes. The first meeting was held in 1884 in Moonah, and these meetings
  15. Kangaroo

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/K/Kangaroo.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Kangaroo. Kangaroo and its replacement, Lurgurena, 1926 (W. L. Crowther Library, SLT). Kangaroo was the first steamship built in Tasmania specifically for use as a vehicular ferry, between Hobart and Bellerive. The 110-foot, 109 gross ton paddle
  16. New Issues Paper Released

    https://www.utas.edu.au/law-reform/news-and-events/tlri-news/new-issues-paper-released
    15 Jul 2022 Search UTAS. Search. Menu. I am a:. Popular Links. Our Research. Graduate Research. Community. Engagement. Our University. Campuses & Services. News, Events & Publications. Quick Links. Tasmania Law Reform Institute. New Issues Paper Released. The
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    New interpretations of place

    https://www.utas.edu.au/research/degrees/available-projects/projects/creative-arts-and-media/new-interpretations-of-place
    11 Jul 2024: New interpretations of place. New interpretations of place, environments and space. New interpretations of place. Degree type. PhD, Masters by research. Closing date. 1 October 2024. Campus. Hobart, Launceston. Citizenship requirement. Domestic /
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  19. People - Built, Digital and Natural Environments

    https://www.utas.edu.au/built-digital-natural/people?queries_classification_query=Professional
    19 Jul 2021: People. Search people:. 1. Name & Position Title. Phone & Email. Indigenous Fellow, Academic Development. Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences. 61 3 6226 2105. Workshop Manager. Architecture & Design. 61 3 6324 4488. TNE Coordinator. 61 3 6324
  20. - CODES – Centre for Ore Deposit and Earth Sciences

    https://www.utas.edu.au/codes/research-programs/program-2/sorting-by-surface-analysis
    19 Jun 2019: Search UTAS. Search. Menu. I am a:. Popular Links. Our Research. Graduate Research. Community. Engagement. Our University. Campuses & Services. News, Events & Publications. Quick Links. CODES – Centre for Ore Deposit and Earth Sciences.
  21. Toc H

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/T/Toc%20H.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Toc H. Toc H is an international non-sectarian social service movement begun by the British during the First World War. It commenced in Tasmania in 1925, with visits to the Repatriation Hospital and an outing for boys from the Kennerley Home. Soon
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