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  2. the Muttonbird

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/M/Muttonbird.htm
    25 Jun 2012: the Muttonbird. Hoisting casks of muttonbird oil into a vessel, 1920 (AOT, PH30/1/6141). The Muttonbird or Short-tailed Shearwater, Puffinus tenuirostris, only breeds in Australia and is probably Australia's most abundant seabird. It is a

  3. Vegetables other than Potatoes

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/V/Vegetables.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Vegetables other than Potatoes. A tableau made from Tasmanian vegetables displayed at Government House, 1942 (AOT, PH30/1/2706). An important part of the Aborigines' diet was vegetables, such as native carrot, native potato, and the pith from

  4. Clark's writings - University of Tasmania

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/exhibitions/clark/writings.html
    25 Jun 2012: This site provides information on the redevelopment of the University web site and an opportunity to provide comments and feedback. In future policies, protocols, guidelines and templates will be accessible via the site.

  5. Speeches - Andrew Inglis Clark - University of Tasmania

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/exhibitions/clark/speeches.html
    25 Jun 2012: This site provides information on the redevelopment of the University web site and an opportunity to provide comments and feedback. In future policies, protocols, guidelines and templates will be accessible via the site.

  6. William Davidson Peacock

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Peacock.htm
    25 Jun 2012: William Davidson Peacock. Apple label from WD Peacock's firm (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). William Davidson Peacock (1847–1921), fruit exporter. Born in Gloucestershire, Peacock emigrated to Hobart in 1869 and worked at his uncle's jam factory. In

  7. Fishing

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/F/Fishing.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Fishing. A fishing boat on the slip at Bicheno, 1920 (AOT, PH30/1/9636). Fishing began early in Van Diemen's Land. Though it is unknown whether the Aborigines ate scale fish, they certainly ate shellfish. When British pioneers found Tasmania's

  8. Catholicism

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Catholicism.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Catholicism. St Paul's Catholic church, Oatlands, 1850s (ALMFA, SLT). Catholics have usually comprised about a fifth of Tasmania's population. Their proportion fell to 17 percent in 1929–47. Unprecedented migration from continental Europe lifted

  9. Clark's cultural and leisure interests - University of Tasmania

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/exhibitions/clark/interests.html
    25 Jun 2012: This site provides information on the redevelopment of the University web site and an opportunity to provide comments and feedback. In future policies, protocols, guidelines and templates will be accessible via the site.

  10. Trade Unions

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/T/Trade%20unions.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Trade Unions. An Eight Hour Day parade in Liverpool Street, Hobart in 1920 (AOT, PH30/1/3767). The earliest unions in Tasmania were organised by craft workers. There is evidence of a printers' union being established in 1829, and tailors', carpenters

  11. Regattas

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Regattas.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Regattas. Ludwig Becker, 'Hobart Town Regatta 1852' (W. L. Crowther Library, SLT). Regattas have been popular since early colonial times, with crews of whalers and merchantmen initially competing informally. In 1831 the Hobart 'Arrow Club' organised

  12. Clark: Making his way in the world culturally and politically -…

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/exhibitions/clark/clark_exhibition/way.html
    25 Jun 2012: Clark had to make his own way in the world. He trained for the law, taking his articles with R. P. Adams, but his broader education depended very much on his own initiative. He read widely, participated enthusiastically in local literary societies,

  13. Royal Hobart Hospital

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/RHH.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Royal Hobart Hospital. JW Beattie, 'Colonial Hospital, Liverpool Street, main entrance', 1880 (W. L. Crowther Library). The Royal Hobart Hospital is the longest-running institution in Tasmania (aside from the military services), beginning in 1804

  14. Presbyterian Church

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Presbyterian.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Presbyterian Church. St John's Presbyterian church, Macquarie St, Hobart, 1870 (W. L. Crowther Library). The Presbyterian Church in Tasmania dates back to the early days of British settlement, with some Presbyterians arriving in 1804. In 1821

  15. Clark's family - University of Tasmania

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/exhibitions/clark/familytree.html
    25 Jun 2012: This site provides information on the redevelopment of the University web site and an opportunity to provide comments and feedback. In future policies, protocols, guidelines and templates will be accessible via the site.

  16. Technical Education

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/T/Technical%20education.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Technical Education. Woodwork class at New Town Technical School, 1951 (AOT, AB713/1/30). Technical Education in Tasmania was the product of a fusion of class interests in the late nineteenth century. Government and business wanted a skilled labour

  17. Federal Movement

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/F/Federal%20movement.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Federal Movement. Celebrating federation: Parliament House, Hobart, 1901 (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). The Federal Movement in Tasmania was essentially a politicians' rather than a people's movement. Tasmanian interest in Australian federation dates

  18. Hospitals

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/H/Hospitals.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Hospitals. Zeehan Hospital, about 1900 (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Hospitals in Van Diemen's Land were rudimentary: patients were treated by untrained staff in makeshift accommodation, and supplies of provisions, medicine and bedding were inadequate

  19. Ukrainian Community

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/U/Ukrainian.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Ukrainian Community. Workmen building Poatina hydro-electric station, 1960 (AOT, AA193/1/725). Ukrainians were among the migrants to Tasmania after the Second World War, with many employed in hydro-electric works in the highlands. The majority,

  20. Thylacine

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/T/Thylacine.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Thylacine. Louisa Anne Meredith, 'Tasmanian Tiger', 1880 (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). The Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) or Tasmanian Tiger both fascinated and scared early settlers. Although it was considered a threat to flocks, some settlers

  21. Breweries

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Breweries.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Breweries. Joseph Connor, 'Walker's Brewery, Hobart', undated (W. L. Crowther Library, SLT). The brewing of beer in Tasmania started within the first year or two of European settlement, but it was not until the early 1820s that the first major

  22. William Russ Pugh

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Pugh.htm
    25 Jun 2012: William Russ Pugh. 'People of importance in their day', in Melbourne: Dr Pugh is third from right (W. L. Crowther Library, SLT). William Russ Pugh (1806–97), medical practitioner, credited with administering the first surgical anaesthetic in the

  23. Coal

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Coal.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Coal. Mary Morton Allport, 'Coal Mines Richmond', c 1842 (ALMFA, SLT). Coal was first discovered in Tasmania by French explorers in 1793. After settlement in 1803, coal was mined on a small scale in many places over the eastern half of the state.

  24. Wine and Viticulture

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/W/Wine.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Wine and Viticulture. Bernacchi's vineyard on Maria Island, 1880s (AOT, PH30/1/1913). The first vines were planted in 1788 by Bligh from the Bounty at Adventure Bay, Bruny Island, and the explorer Bass noted the potential of the Derwent Valley in

  25. Associated Pulp & Paper Mills

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/A/APPM.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Associated Pulp & Paper Mills. Associated Pulp & Paper Mills, Burnie, 1950s (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Associated Pulp & Paper Mills Limited was formed by entrepreneur, Gerald Mussen, with major shareholders the associated mining companies of

  26. Orchestras

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/O/Orchestras.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Orchestras. Although there were early musical ensembles, development was spasmodic. In the 1840s, a choral society and orchestra in Hobart performed European works and new compositions, and the Hobart Musical Union thrived from 1867 until the 1890s.

  27. Homeopathy

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/H/Homeopathy.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Homeopathy. Gould's Homoeopathic Pharmacy, Hobart, c 1890 (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Homeopathy is a therapeutic system of medicine that is based on the principle that like cures like – which means that a substance that can cause certain symptoms

  28. Philip Oakley Fysh

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/F/PO%20Fysh.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Philip Oakley Fysh. Philip Oakley Fysh (Parliament of Tasmania). Philip Oakley Fysh (1835–1919), politician, arrived in Tasmania in 1859 and established a wholesale business in Hobart. He entered the Legislative Council in 1866, battled the

  29. Bands

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Bands.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Bands. North Hobart Concert Band, 1917 (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Bands in Van Diemen's Land were initially military. The first civic band, the St Joseph's Total Abstinence Band, was formed in Launceston in 1845, some of its thirteen members coming

  30. Films

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/F/Films.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Films. Actors from 'For the term of his natural life', 1927 (AOT, PH30/1/4148). Films or moving pictures gradually displaced live theatre as the predominant form of mass entertainment in the early twentieth century. Tasmania played a role in the

  31. Thomas Davey

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/D/Davey.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Thomas Davey. Thomas Davey (AOT, PH30/1/640). Thomas Davey (1758–1823), Lt-Governor of Van Diemen's Land from 1813 to 1817. The European colony was little more than a camp when Davey arrived, and he was the first administrator of the whole island.

  32. Poliomyelitis

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Polio.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Poliomyelitis. A member of the Lyons family receiving a Salk vaccine injection against polio, 1960 (AOT, PH30/1/3596). Caused by a virus which attacks nerve cells, and the only infectious disease (apart from those sexually transmitted) to increase

  33. Crime

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Crime.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Crime. Launceston Police Barracks, 1865 (AOT, PH30/1/9330). Crime is an aspect of the history of Tasmania, just as it is of any society. However, on an island that, since European settlement, was characterised by its early use as an isolated prison

  34. Eric Reece

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Reece.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Eric Reece. Eric Reece taking the salute from marching girls at the opening of the Australian championships, Devonport, 1960 (AOT, PH30/1/3605). Eric Elliott Reece AC (1909–99), politician, was a member of parliament 1946–1975, and Premier of

  35. Roads

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Roads.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Roads. Unknown artist, 'Huon Road in Summer', 1886, showing the unmade surface (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Until the end of the nineteenth century, building a road in the colony was usually a slow process, which began with marking a route by a

  36. Publications - Andrew Inglis Clark - University of Tasmania

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/exhibitions/clark/publications.html
    25 Jun 2012: This site provides information on the redevelopment of the University web site and an opportunity to provide comments and feedback. In future policies, protocols, guidelines and templates will be accessible via the site.

  37. Female Convicts

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/F/Female%20convicts.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Female Convicts. The Female Factory at South Hobart (AOT, NS1013/1/571). Nearly 12,500 women were transported to Van Diemen's Land, mostly for petty theft. This was roughly the same number as were sent to New South Wales. Two-thirds arrived after

  38. The Fabrication of Aboriginal History?

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/F/Fabrication.htm
    25 Jun 2012: The Fabrication of Aboriginal History? In November 2002 appeared a book by Keith Windschuttle that was to make Tasmanian history, for the first time, a national public issue. Through the sponsorship of the Australian newspaper in particular, The

  39. Bushranging

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/B/Bushranging.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Bushranging. Bushrangers attacking a homestead (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Bushranging began in Tasmania in the early years of settlement, when near starvation meant convicts were sent into the bush to hunt. Some remained there, living by stealing

  40. Electricity

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/E/Electricity.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Electricity. Undated postcard of Tungatinah Power Station (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Tasmania's first European settlers used water to power most of their myriad flourmills for almost a century. Not surprisingly, when they embraced the new technology

  41. Clark: Tasmanian and family background - University of Tasmania

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/exhibitions/clark/clark_exhibition/family.html
    25 Jun 2012: Andrew Inglis Clark was born in Hobart in 1848. His father, Alexander Clark, was a Scottish engineer who arrived in the colony in 1832, and was responsible for the design and construction of a flour mill at Port Arthur. Though transportation came to

  42. Commemorating Clark - University of Tasmania

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/exhibitions/clark/clark_exhibition/commem.html
    25 Jun 2012: Clark has long had admirers, nationally and locally, among democrats and republicans. The recent debate over the Republic refocused attention on his conception of the legally independent Commonwealth, and his constitutional thinking has become more

  43. James Erskine Calder

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/Calder.htm
    25 Jun 2012: James Erskine Calder. James Erskine Calder (1808–82), surveyor and historian. Born in England, Calder arrived in Van Diemen's Land in 1829 to take up a position as Assistant Surveyor. For the next three decades he explored and surveyed vast tracts

  44. Frederick Augustus Packer

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Packer.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Frederick Augustus Packer. Frederick Augustus Gow Packer (1839–1902), musician and civil servant, was born in England. In 1852 the family migrated to Hobart Town and soon became prominent in the colony's musical life. Packer followed his father as

  45. Police

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Police.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Police. Launceston Police 1876 (ALMFA, SLT). Police protection was necessary as soon as the first settlements of Hobart Town and Port Dalrymple were made in 1804. To maintain order from dusk to dawn, Lt-Governor Collins established watches staffed

  46. John Soundy

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Soundy.htm
    25 Jun 2012: John Soundy. John Soundy, left, playing bowls (AOT, PH30/1/5835). John Soundy (1878–1960), businessman and politician, was born in Dorset, and arrived in Hobart in 1883. In 1911 he took charge of the Hobart family drapery business of JT Soundy Pty

  47. Rutile and Zircon mining

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Rutile.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Rutile and Zircon mining. Rutile and Zircon, found in mineral sands, were mined on King Island's beaches in the 1960s to obtain titanium dioxide, used in paint manufacture, and zirconium dioxide, valuable for its ability to withstand high

  48. Polish Community

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/P/Polish.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Polish Community. The Polish Community in Tasmania began when a sudden influx of some 1500 Poles arrived after 1947, a tiny fraction of the several million Poles worldwide who chose exile rather than life in a post-war Poland under Russian communist

  49. Floods

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/F/Floods.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Floods. Postcard of Launceston's Cataract Gorge in flood, undated (Tasmaniana Library, SLT). Floods were first recorded as widespread throughout Van Diemen's Land in September 1828, when most bridges in the Midlands were carried away. The Ross

  50. Rowing

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/R/Rowing.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Rowing. Tasmania's champion interestate rowing crew, 1906 (AOT, PH30/1/2758). Rowing has been a popular sport since the early nineteenth century, with the first recorded race held on the River Derwent in 1815. Early races were usually the result of

  51. Skiing

    https://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/S/Skiing.htm
    25 Jun 2012: Skiing. Ski fields in Tasmania, while closer to major cities than those on the mainland, have lower altitude and therefore less reliable snowcover. The first recorded skiing was at Cradle Mountain in 1914, and from the 1920s hardy enthusiasts

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