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Synoicus Diemenensis, Gould., Van Diemen’s Land Partridge, [Pl. 90]
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Judicial Murder‐Suicides in Van Diemen's Land
Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2017AbstractOn the morning of December 17, 1827, nine convicts were executed by public hanging in Hobart Town, the capital of the British colony of Van Diemen's Land (now the Australian state of Tasmania). Two months previously they had drowned senior Constable George Rex on Small Island, which was part of the penal settlement at Macquarie Harbor, in front
Roger W, Byard, Hamish, Maxwell Stewart
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Van Diemen's Land: An Aboriginal History
Australian Historical Studies, 2015The history of the Tasmanian Aborigines must surely be among the most contentious of Indigenous peoples in the world today.
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Frontier conflict in Van Diemen's Land
2023Eastern Van Diemen's Land was the site of the most intense frontier conflict in Australia. What is known today as the Black War (1824-1831) produced at least 450 colonial casualties and all but wiped out the Aborigines. This thesis examines the attitudes and experiences of the men, women and children ‚Äö-black and white ‚Äö- who were involved. It asks:
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2003
Abstract Things looked up for Tom Arnold after he crossed the Tasman Sea. Van Diemen’s Land, as Tasmania was known until 1856, was a more developed colonial society than New Zealand; it was to provide him with a wife, a family, and work that he found, for the most part, constructive and satisfying.
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Abstract Things looked up for Tom Arnold after he crossed the Tasman Sea. Van Diemen’s Land, as Tasmania was known until 1856, was a more developed colonial society than New Zealand; it was to provide him with a wife, a family, and work that he found, for the most part, constructive and satisfying.
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Irish convicts and Van Diemen's Land
2023The aim of this thesis is to examine in detail the origins, of Irish convicts transported to Van Diemen 's Land and to discuss how they reacted to colonial conditions. All Irish-born prisoners sent to the colony have been included in this study. During the transportation period 1803 to 1853 several thousand felons of Irish birth came from areas of the ...
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Convicts with the Van Diemen's Land Company
2023The Van Diemen's Land Company was formed in 1825 to produce wool in Van Diemen's Land for the British market. The company explored land in the North West of the island for the purpose of locating a grant and established settlements at Circular Head, Woolnorth, Emu Bay, Hampshire and Surrey Hills.
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Casual Expansion by Land Grantees in Van Diemen’s Land
2017Talk to any surveyor, conveyance lawyer, or farmer in Tasmania today and you will hear stories of troublesome property boundaries that date back to the colonial period. These complaints are nothing new - from almost the beginning of the British colony, accusations were made against the Survey Office and the quality of its work.
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Roy Bridge’s Fictions of Van Diemen’s Land
Australian Literary Studies, 2000[Extract] Had he been on their case, one can imagine F.R. Leavis intoning `We will not reckon Bryce Courtenay a writer of historical fiction to appeal to adult minds if we think of Roy Bridges'. No Australian author of such fiction had so long a career as Bridges: it spanned just over four decades. His novels, but especially those to do with Van Diemen'
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