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  2. Topics beginning with Z

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/Images/Z%20list.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Topics beginning with Z. Copyright 2006, Centre for Tasmanian Historical Studies.

  3. Anatomy Act

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/A/Anatomy%20Act.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Anatomy Act. The Anatomy Act (An Act for regulating the Practice of Anatomy, 1869) was precipitated by the disclosure that bodies had been 'mutilated' by medical men in Hobart's General Hospital. Two surgeons had engaged in a competitive quest to

  4. Oyster Cove

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/O/Oyster%20Cove.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Oyster Cove. Aborigines at Oyster Cove, photographed by Bishop Nixon, 1858 (W. L. Crowther Library). In 1847, 47 Tasmanian Aboriginal people incarcerated for fifteen years at Wybalenna on Flinders Island arrived to take up forced residency at Oyster

  5. Carmel Bird

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Carmel%20Bird.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Carmel Bird. Carmel Bird (née Janice Maureen Power, 1940), one of Tasmania's most published and best-known contemporary writers of fiction, non-fiction and multimedia. She was born in Launceston, educated at the University of Tasmania and currently

  6. Gary Cleveland

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/G%20Cleveland.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Gary Cleveland. Gary Cleveland (b 1930), design entrepreneur and one of the major promoters of design in Tasmania, was born in St Louis, Missouri USA. After working as a textile designer in Queensland and Britain, he was appointed as managing

  7. Noel Norman

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/N/Noel%20Norman.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Noel Norman. Noel Wilson Norman (1901–81), writer, was born of parents with long, upper-class Tasmanian antecedents. The rebellious youth's crucial experience was to travel into outback Australia in 1917. He returned thither often in fact, and

  8. Rosny Children's Choir

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Rosny%20choir.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Rosny Children's Choir. The Rosny Children's Choir started when Jennifer Filby, a music teacher in Rosny, had her pupils sing carols at their end-of-year recital. She was asked to provide a chorus for a musical, and the Rosny Children's Choir was

  9. Alan Cameron Walker

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/W/Walker%20Alan.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Alan Cameron Walker. Hobart General Post Office and tower, 1906 (AOT, PH30/1/4023). Alan Cameron Walker (1865–1931), architect and craftsman. Walker carried on the tradition of the gentleman architect, active in the arts and community affairs.

  10. Lady Nelson

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/L/Lady%20Nelson.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Lady Nelson. Lady Nelson on the Thames in England (AOT, PH30/1/1137). Lady Nelson was launched in England in 1798, and arrived in Sydney in 1800. She helped transport Bowen's party to Risdon in 1803, charted the Tamar in 1804, and later that year

  11. Patriotic Six

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Patriotic%206.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Patriotic Six. Charles Swanston, a member of the Patriotic Six (AOT, PH30/1/5140). The Patriotic Six, comprising legislative councillors Charles Swanston, Michael Fenton, John Kerr, William Kermode, Thomas Gregson and Richard Dry, resigned their

  12. Rajah Quilt

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Rajah%20quilt.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Rajah Quilt. The Rajah Quilt is the only known surviving convict shipboard quilt. Itwas made by female transportees aboard the ship Rajah on the 105-day voyage from England to Hobart Town. The Rajah embarked from Woolwich on 5 April 1841, and 179

  13. St Patrick's College

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/St%20Patricks.htm
    25 Jun 2012: St Patrick's College. St Patrick's College, Launceston, evolved from a threefold Catholic tradition beginning with the opening of Sacred Heart College by the Presentation Sisters in 1873. The Christian Brothers opened St Patrick's College in York

  14. Place

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/J/Jones%20Lloyd.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Lloyd Jones. Lloyd Lindsay Jones MBE (1916–2004), aviator, photographer, visionary, adventurer, was a member of 92 and 93 Beaufighter Squadrons during the Second World War. The first aviator to take aerial photographs of the magnificent rugged

  15. George Town

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/G/George%20Town.htm
    25 Jun 2012: George Town. FR Nixon, 'George Town', 1857 (ALMFA, SLT). George Town was first settled in November 1804 when Paterson's party arrived in the north and established a base at Outer Cove. In 1805 most moved to the western side of the Tamar, and by 1811

  16. Lake Pedder

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/L/Lake%20Pedder.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Lake Pedder. George Collingridge and WC Piguenit, 'Lake Pedder', 1888 (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Lake Pedder in south-western Tasmania was a beautiful, isolated lake formed about 10,000 years ago during the last Ice Age. The shallow, nine square

  17. Place Names

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Place%20names.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Place Names. An example of an Aboriginal place name: Ringarooma, undated (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Tasmania is blessed with some fascinating descriptive place names like Horrible Hollow Hill, Mouldy Hole, Stinking Creek, Humbug Point, Haunted Bay,

  18. Port Sorell

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Port%20Sorell.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Port Sorell. Louisa Anne Meredith, 'Badger Head, and the Sister Islands, from Poyston, Port Sorell', 1852 (ALMFA, SLT). Port Sorell was the home of the Punnilerpanner band of Tasmanians, with midden sites up to 4000 years old. The Rubicon river

  19. Lyne Family

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/L/Lyne%20family.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Lyne Family. The Lyne family, William, Sarah and five children, arrived in Hobart in 1826, and received a 1500-acre land grant on the east coast, named Apsley (later Apslawn). Gradually their stock of sheep and cattle increased, despite problems

  20. Gale Family

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/G/Gale%20Family.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Gale Family. Building the first road to Marrawah (AOT, PH30/1/1552). Aaron and Elizabeth Gale with four adolescent children arrived from Hampshire on the Coromandel in 1853. All obtained short-term positions immediately, and by 1856 were living at

  21. Blythe Star

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Blythe%20Star.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Blythe Star. Blythe Star, steel motor vessel of 321 tons gross, sailed from Hobart for King Island under charter to the Tasmanian Transport Commission on 12 October 1973 but failed to arrive. After the most extensive air and sea search conducted in
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