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10 May 2019

Film, tourism and the Tassie connection

How Tassie’s dark heart is increasingly drawing big film and TV productions to our state.

19 November 2018

Convict histories reveal how ancestors could influence your health

What does it mean for you if your ancestors had a tough start to life?

09 September 2018

Righting the wrongs of the past

How researchers are assisting Indigenous Australians in righting the wrongs of the past.

07 September 2018

7 reasons why it’s time to revisit Australia’s convict past

Convict sites around Tasmania have been revitalised, and historians are reimagining how Australians can revisit our colonial past.

13 August 2018

Tracking tourists with tech

How a passion for holidays lead this researcher to tracking tourists.

31 July 2018

An iconic life on the stage, reborn

Shining the spotlight on one of Australia's founding Shakespearean actors.

19 July 2018

Reviving an original Tasmanian language

How Tasmania’s Aboriginal people reclaimed a language, palawa kani.

24 April 2018

A Tasmanian Requiem

A Tasmanian Requiem is a musical reckoning, and a pathway to reconciliation.

19 March 2018

Looking at Antarctica through an advertising lens

What’s your idea of Antarctica?

14 March 2018

How picture boards were used as propaganda in the Vandemonian War

Rediscovering evidence.

17 January 2018

Explainer: the evidence for the Tasmanian genocide

Dealing with “the Aboriginal problem”

29 November 2017

We need a new Australia Day

Triple J did the right thing - Professor Henry Reynolds.

05 November 2017

Can Ancient Rome offer lessons on marriage laws?

Dr Jonathan Wallis tells us “it was ever thus”. He sees parallels between the current marriage law debate and the Roman politicisation of marriage over 2000 years ago.

29 October 2017

Journey through the apocalypse

Friday essay - by Adjunct Professor in History, Cassandra Pybus.

25 October 2017

Soldiers, thieves, Māori warriors

The NZ convicts sent to Australia - by Senior Lecturer, History Dr Kristyn Harman.

17 September 2017

Convict children taken to Australia grew up taller than their UK peers

The children of convicts born in the Australian colonies grew up taller than they would have done if their parents had not been sent into exile, our latest study shows.

04 July 2017

The frozen continent and its connection to us

The Antarctic Cities project will bring together three "gateway" cities.

20 June 2017

Delving into the "black books" of convict knowledge

Tasmania's convict history is well documented, and completely fascinating.

19 June 2017

History textbooks still imply that Australians are white

Graduate research assistant, School of Social Sciences, Robyn Moore employs an intersectional lens to examine normalised privilege and disadvantage, particularly in regards to race and gender.

15 May 2017

Every move you make, every step you take, we will be tracking you …

Terrific Tourism Tracer finds out valuable data about where our tourists travel.

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