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  2. Thumbnail for A Belgian farmer moved a rock and accidentally annexed France

    A Belgian farmer moved a rock and accidentally annexed France

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1135-a-belgian-farmer-moved-a-rock-and-accidentally-annexed-france
    12 May 2021: This week, a farmer in the Belgian town of Erquelinnes caused an international ruckus when he moved a stone standing in his tractor’s path. This stone marked the boundary between Belgium and France. By moving it 2. 29 metres, he expanded Belgium’s
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    A fresh perspective on Tasmania, a terrible and beautiful place

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/740-a-fresh-perspective-on-tasmania-a-terrible-and-beautiful-place
    10 Oct 2018: The island of Tasmania lies suspended beneath Australia like a heart-shaped pendant of sapphire, emerald and tourmaline. Here is where the world runs out, crumbling into the vast expanse of the Southern Ocean. Island Story: Tasmania in Object and
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    A home for everyone?

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/408-a-home-for-everyone
    12 Sep 2017: While Australia has an egalitarian mythology, where everyone has a chance, the roots of problems with access to housing lie in our history. The first land grants were given to former convicts as a way to control an unfenced prison colony. As free
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    A Tasmanian Requiem

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2018/586-a-tasmanian-requiem
    24 Apr 2018: On December 26, 1847, a small group of Aboriginal people sat in the Lieutenant-Governor’s box at Hobart’s Theatre Royal watching a new pantomime. A local newspaper reported how “the natives … seemed gratified at their first public
  6. Thumbnail for Archaeology field school unearths unique opportunities

    Archaeology field school unearths unique opportunities

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/834-archaeology-field-school-unearths-unique-opportunities
    12 Mar 2019: What was life like for the convicts who spent eight gruelling years building the Midlands Highway between Hobart and Launceston? In partnership with the Southern Midlands Council, the University of Tasmania has conducted a two-week long
  7. Thumbnail for Can Ancient Rome offer lessons on marriage laws?

    Can Ancient Rome offer lessons on marriage laws?

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/447-can-ancient-rome-offer-lessons-on-marriage-laws
    5 Nov 2017: The bill to legalise same-sex marriage has passed the Senate, with 43 voting yes, 12 no votes, with some senators abstaining from casting a vote. The bill was passed without amendment, and will not move to the House of Representatives for further
  8. Thumbnail for Convict children taken to Australia grew up taller than their UK peers

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

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/413-convict-children-taken-to-australia-grew-up-taller-than-their-uk-peers
    17 Sep 2017: Male Tasmanian-born prisoners, arrested in the second half of the nineteenth century, were over four centimetres taller, on average, than transported convicts. And they were nearly two centimetres taller than free migrants who were born in Britain
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    Could your ancestors' lives make a great historical novel?

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1185-could-your-ancestors-lives-make-a-great-historical-novel
    28 Nov 2021: There are two writing units in the Diploma of Family History that teach students about writing. Writing Family History focuses on individual stories while Writing the Family Saga helps students develop compelling multi-generational narratives.
  10. Thumbnail for Delving deeper into your ancestry

    Delving deeper into your ancestry

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2019/839-delving-deeper-into-your-ancestry
    22 Mar 2019: Caroline, you completed the Diploma of Family History at the University of Tasmania. Tell us about your experience studying this course. I commenced the inaugural unit of the diploma, Introduction to Family History, in 2016. At that time, I had been
  11. Thumbnail for Delving into the "black books" of convict knowledge

    Delving into the "black books" of convict knowledge

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2017/325-delving-into-the-black-books-of-convict-knowledge
    20 Jun 2017: In 1803, the first of almost 73,000 convicts landed on what was then called Van Diemen’s Land. Over the course of the next 50 years convict clerks kept meticulous records of each new arrival in leather-bound volumes. Pouring over the voluminous

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