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Could your ancestors' lives make a great historical novel?

Writer and historian Dr Naomi Parry introduces us to the writing units in the Diploma of Family History, and the work of Mandy Gwan.

Opening the archives of White Australia

How a biography brought me to family history

How writing an entry for a supplementary volume in the Australia Dictionary of Biography uncovered an extraordinary family story.

A Belgian farmer moved a rock and accidentally annexed France

Establishing national borders has long been an inexact science, writes Dr Imogen Wegman.

Hidden history of Chinese Australian women

‘Your government makes us go’: the hidden history of Chinese Australian women at a time of anti-Asian immigration laws.

Tracing the lives of early Chinese families in colonial Australia

Coordinator of the Diploma of Family History at the University of Tasmania, Kate Bagnall, turns her attention closer to home.

Understanding colonial maps

Early Tasmanian land charts contain some fascinating details, if you know where to look.

Honouring the extinct, one thylacine at a time

Lessons from the life of Sarah Wentworth

Rediscovering the turbulent history of an iconic Australian family, the Wentworths.

Delving deeper into your ancestry

After filling in significant family lines, Caroline Haigh decided to embark on additional study to help her uncover the stories of her ancestors’ lives.

Archaeology field school unearths unique opportunities

Discovering the long-buried remnants of Tasmania’s convict history.

A fresh perspective on Tasmania, a terrible and beautiful place

Book Review: Island Story: Tasmania in Object and Text.

Righting the wrongs of the past

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

The top 5 things to do at Hobart Open Day if society fascinates you

Open Day is just around the corner!

Reviving an original Tasmanian language

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

Pioneers reclaimed

A Diploma of Family History student-turned-author has no regrets about uncovering her family's convict past.

A Tasmanian Requiem

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

On the trail of the London thylacines

An archive of bodies...

Let the games begin

Ten things you didn’t know about the Commonwealth.

How picture boards were used as propaganda in the Vandemonian War

Rediscovering evidence.