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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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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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Frontier conflict in Van Diemen's Land
2013Eastern 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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Convicts with the Van Diemen's Land Company
2007The 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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Irish convicts and Van Diemen's Land
1973The 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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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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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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1965
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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Anything but common: why Van Diemen’s Land never had commons
Landscape History, 2022Imogen Wegman
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