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  2. Thumbnail for Study reveals attitudes to Hobart's bushfire preparation

    Study reveals attitudes to Hobart's bushfire preparation

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1183-study-reveals-attitudes-to-hobarts-bushfire-preparation
    24 Nov 2021: NEARLY one in five people living near bushland in Hobart plan to remain in their homes even under life-threatening bushfire conditions, while four in five expect to experience a serious bushfire during their lifetime, according to data collected
  3. 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
  4. Thumbnail for How early Australian settlers drew maps to erase Indigenous people

    How early Australian settlers drew maps to erase Indigenous people

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1138-how-early-australian-settlers-drew-maps-to-erase-indigenous-people
    31 May 2021: The new Netflix series Shadow and Bone opens with cartographer Alina Starkov crammed into the back of a rumbling wagon, sketching a war-torn landscape. A flashback to her childhood in an orphanage shows her looking at a map of a conflict zone. A
  5. Thumbnail for How a biography brought me to family history

    How a biography brought me to family history

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1142-how-a-biography-brought-me-to-family-history
    11 Jun 2021: Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that this article may contain the names and images of people who are now deceased. Back in the early 2000s, the Australian Dictionary of Biography decided to prepare a supplement
  6. Thumbnail for Tracing the lives of early Chinese families in colonial Australia

    Tracing the lives of early Chinese families in colonial Australia

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1124-tracing-the-lives-of-early-chinese-families-in-colonial-australia
    31 Mar 2021: I’m a historian, but I’m not my family’s historian. That honour falls to my mum, who for the past twenty years or so has been delving into the lives of my ancestors. Mum started doing the family history after I began studying Australian
  7. Thumbnail for Opening the archives of White Australia

    Opening the archives of White Australia

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1167-opening-the-archives-of-white-australia
    17 Sep 2021: The administration of the Immigration Restriction Act was a huge bureaucratic exercise, creating tens of thousands of records that today reveal personal histories of life under the White Australia Policy. Two recent online projects are opening up
  8. Thumbnail for If you’re planning to hike this winter, invest in the right gear

    If you’re planning to hike this winter, invest in the right gear

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1139-if-youre-planning-to-hike-this-winter-invest-in-the-right-gear
    1 Jun 2021: Two years ago, emergency workers rescued a hiker in Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park. He had spent nine days in his tent in freezing weather with dangerous blizzards, trying to keep dry from infiltrating snow and rain. Because he was an
  9. Thumbnail for Hidden history of Chinese Australian women

    Hidden history of Chinese Australian women

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1133-hidden-history-of-chinese-australian-women
    3 May 2021: Chinese Australian history is primarily told as a history of men. Population figures suggest why — in 1901, there were almost 30,000 Chinese men in Australia, yet fewer than 500 women. But despite their small numbers, emerging research reveals
  10. Thumbnail for Digital polish for Tasmania's ancient gems

    Digital polish for Tasmania's ancient gems

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1111-digital-polish-for-tasmanias-ancient-gems
    16 Feb 2021: For a geoscientist, there could be few places more tantalising than Tasmania. Shaped by natural forces over billions of years; each rock, mountain, valley or stream offers scientists a unique window into the past. The state has a rich, almost
  11. Thumbnail for Understanding colonial maps

    Understanding colonial maps

    https://www.utas.edu.au/about/news-and-stories/articles/2021/1123-understanding-colonial-maps
    31 Mar 2021: On Boxing Day 1832 surveyors across southern Van Diemen’s Land were huddled in their tents, sheltering from the rain. Poor Charles Wedge set out to work but was ‘obliged to return’, while Raphael Clint made no pretence, recording in his log,

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