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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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2023
This thesis represents an attempt to complete the history of the Van Diemen's Land Company from its foundation in 1824 to the dismissal of its first Chief Agent, Edward Curr, in 1842 which was begun by A.L. Meston and to carry the story on to 1860 by which time the Company had assumed what was essentially its final form.
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This thesis represents an attempt to complete the history of the Van Diemen's Land Company from its foundation in 1824 to the dismissal of its first Chief Agent, Edward Curr, in 1842 which was begun by A.L. Meston and to carry the story on to 1860 by which time the Company had assumed what was essentially its final form.
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The Architecture of Van Diemen’s Land Timber
Fabrications, 2019ABSTRACTVan Diemen’s Land timber-getting enterprises, one of the colony’s early nineteenth-century commodity-based industries, provided a crucial infrastructure for colonial architecture, generatin...
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Stage-coach enterprises in Van Diemen's Land and Tasmania
2023From 1820, increased settler movement into Van Diemen's Land prompted the need for improved communications; but small population numbers and high commercial risk factors discouraged the establishment of inland passenger transport enterprises. After 1830, population growth near the two main towns, and the colonial Post Office's evolving inland ...
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Quakers in Early Nineteenth-Century Van Diemen’s Land
2020Quakers established themselves in nineteenth-century Van Diemen’s Land as part of a translocal community. Starting in the early 1830s, they took several institutional and organisational steps to create the first Quaker community in the Australasian colonies.
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