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  2. Terrapin Puppet Theatre

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/T/Terrapin.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Terrapin Puppet Theatre. Laura Purcell and Sam Routledge, The Storyteller's Shadow , Terrapin Puppet Theatre. The Terrapin Puppet Theatre was established in 1981 by Jennifer Davidson after the Tasmanian Puppet Theatre closed in 1980. Designer Greg

  3. Place

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/J/Jacobson.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Jacobson Family. Nison (Nissen) Jacobson, born in about 1793, was a segar (cigar and cigarettes) manufacturer. In 1817 he was convicted of forgery in London. 1. He arrived in Hobart Town on the Lady Castlereagh in 1818, was assigned to Mrs AWH

  4. Pioneers

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Pioneers.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Pioneers. Group of pioneers at a hut in the Wielangta Forest, about 1910 (ALMFA, SLT). Tasmania owes a debt to its pioneers, those who in each area were the first Europeans to settle and create a community. These early arrivals had to bear the brunt

  5. Dentists

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/D/Dentists.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Dentists. Until the arrival of 'specialist' dentists in the mid-nineteenth century, dental care was provided by the medical profession and druggists, who were eventually registered under two British Acts, the Colonial Medical Act (1858) and the

  6. Hydatids

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/H/Hydatids.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Hydatids. Hydatids caused the death of a Tasmanian child every few years until 1968. Deaths occurred when a minor injury ruptured a hydatid cyst of the liver. This infectious disease is caused by a tiny tapeworm, Echinococcus granulosus, an

  7. Jack Thwaites

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/T/Thwaites.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Jack Thwaites. The tradition Jack Thwaites inherited – camping in the bush (AOT, PH30/1/6044). Jack Barrass Thwaites OAM (1902–86), tall, personable and self-effacing bushman, was born at Kendal in Britain's Lake District, and emigrated to

  8. Bothwell

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Bothwell.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Bothwell. Bothwell in 1878, unknown photographer (ALMFA, SLT). Bothwell (population 350) considers itself the 'gateway to the highlands', being the last service, educational and administrative town before the Central Plateau recreational area. It is

  9. Bridport

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Bridport.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Bridport. S. Bridport, 1950 (AOT, PH30/1/5747). Bridport is a popular holiday town on Tasmania's north coast. It was originally sited at the confluence of the Great Forester and Brid Rivers, but when 'The Cut' was put in, the Forester was diverted

  10. Evandale

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/E/Evandale.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Evandale. Duncan Cooper's painting of Evandale, 1851 (W. L. Crowther Library, SLT). Evandale is a small rural town in the northern midlands of Tasmania, some nineteen kilometres south of Launceston. It was originally established as a military post on

  11. Hamilton

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/H/Hamilton.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Hamilton. Alfred Mault, 'Bridge over the Clyde at Hamilton', 1883 (ALMFA, SLT). Hamilton's first European settlers arrived in the 1820s. Occupying a strategic position as roads and agriculture developed, Hamilton became a transport centre. By the

  12. Kingston

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/K/Kingston.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Kingston. Undated postcard of Kingston Beach (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Kingston, an early rural area 12 km south of Hobart, supplied vegetables, fruit, meat, dairy and poultry to this city, but is now a suburb. The population in 2001 was 14,827. In

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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

  18. 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

  19. 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

  20. 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

  21. 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,
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