Historians head to Connorville farm
The Australian History Association has visited one of the state's oldest grazing properties near Cressy south of Launceston in Tasmania's north.
View ArticleLaunceston's bluestone history
Launceston's built heritage has remained more intact than many towns and cities across Australia. Partly because of the large number of substantial 19th century buildings in and around the city, but...
View ArticleVan Diemen's settling of Melbourne row reignites
On the back of Melbourne Day, the debate about who really settled the Victorian capital 177 years ago still rages.
View ArticleA family history of Gunns
Launceston historian Tom Gunn is the great grandson of John Gunn, founder of the eponymous company along with his brother Thomas 137 years ago. Today, Gunns slipped into voluntary administration,...
View ArticleExceptional buildings of John and Thomas Gunn
The Tasmanian company Gunns is widely known as the company who sought to build a controversial pulp mill in the Tamar Valley, igniting debate over the direction of development, the state of the...
View ArticleQueenstown commemorates and celebrates
People came from around Australia to be in Queenstown on Tasmania's West Coast to mark the occasion of 100 years since the Mt. Lyell mining disaster. The largest underground mining disaster in...
View ArticleOld Tasmania, vintage Tasmania
Old Tasmania! It is all around us. All those remnants of days gone by that have been overlooked and somehow survive until this day.
View ArticleWWII veterans documented by northern Tasmanian photographer
In a makeshift studio at the Launceston RSL Club, photographer Phillip Kuruvita is documenting two WWII veterans as part of a national project in the lead up to Anzac Day 2015.
View ArticleBruce Pascoe on the complex question of Aboriginal agriculture
Drawing from the accounts of early explorers, Bruce asks whether Australia's first people were really 'hunter-gatherers'.
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