History

History

The Marion Sticht necklace

by Garry Sims

31 Aug 2024

The curiosity of a historian and the determination of a west coast woman led to the return of a Tasmanian treasure ...

History

The three Czech doctors of Penguin

by Daniela Svoboda Tymms

02 May 2024

It is a long way from Czechoslovakia to Penguin ...

History

Frank Simpkinson: the Tasmanian landscape and the depiction of eucalypts

by James Parker

21 Apr 2024

... the difficulty early European settlers had in seeing the Australian landscape objectively, and in depicting the genus Eucalyptus ...

History

Wilson of the Steppes

by Grace Heathcote

10 Mar 2024

“A visitor may almost imagine himself transplanted into some nobleman’s park” ...

History

Understanding Darwin

by James Parker

25 Jan 2024

Peter Grant writes beautifully about eucalypts and Charles Darwin’s disparaging comments about them ...

Environment

In the dinosaurs’ garden

by Fiona Howie

22 Jan 2024

On lunawanna-allonah/Bruny Island lies a garden of primordial plants ...

History

The roo economy

by James Parker

02 Jan 2024

Some people worry about eating Skippy, and others about killing an animal represented on Australia’s coat of arms ...

Tasmanian Voices

Jimmy Wright, and the day they moved the goal posts

by James Parker

16 Dec 2023

Jimmy Wright was 18 years and five days old on Sunday, October 1, 1967, when he woke up in his hotel room in Burnie and realised ...

History

From Kupang to Van Diemen’s Land, the sea is never far away

by Mark Heyward

16 Dec 2023

The sea and the mountain are never far from sight ...

Old-timers

End of an era

by Hilary Burden

27 Sep 2023

Ray Johnston, 83, has lived and holidayed on the Freycinet Peninsula since he was a boy ...

The Arts

Landscape-shaped thinking

by Jonno Blood

16 Sep 2023

Every second scene here is worthy of painting and prose, a collection of small events that gladden the heart ...

History

The graves of Deal Island

by Craig Searle

09 Sep 2023

Deal Island is a dot in Bass Strait best known as Tasmania’s most remote National Park ...

History

Don and the dredger

by Fiona Stocker

04 Feb 2021

Crouched on the shore at Low Head Pilot Station, its windows facing the estuary, is a handsome brick and stone building. Erected by convicts in 1835, it was built as accommodation for the families of the four pilots whose job it was to guide ships into the Tamar Estuary. Today, it houses the Low Head Pilot Station Maritime Museum, run by volunteers and maritime enthusiasts.

History

Halfway

by Kate Kruimink

16 Jun 2023

You could always hang surplus criminals, but there were murmurings that that was maybe a bit inhumane ...