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Continue reading‘He sacrificed his life’: Seaman gets another chance at receiving top honour
Edward "Teddy" Sheean died in World War II, today his family begins the
Continue readingObsessive curiosity helped turn pie shop into prison museum
When William Radcliffe dug up leg irons in his backyard at Port Arthur,
Continue readingVandemonian Lags busts Tasmanian convict misery myths
An all-star musical-theatre production shines a light on Tasmania's convict
Continue readingThis man was the Instagram champion of his time for Tasmania
More than a century before digital cameras and social media, a pioneer
Continue readingThree trailblazing Australian women whose life stories we should know
In small ways and big, these unheralded women changed the way we live.
Continue readingHobart’s history seen through your memories
Christmas parades, lime milkshakes and a visit from the Queen — your
Continue readingShackles, Shag, Clancy and Herb’s excellent Antarctic adventure
It's been 50 years since a radio technician, carpenter, plumber and electrician
Continue readingHow paintings from the 19th century helped restore a historic house
When Carol Westmore and her husband Rodney bought the house famous Australian
Continue reading‘The tampon in the sky’: What’s the story with the tower on Mount Wellington?
At 130 metres tall, the transmission tower perched atop kunanyi/Mount
Continue readingThirty Aboriginal men were killed, but not many people remember the Cape Grim massacre
In 1828, the bodies of about 30 Aboriginal men were thrown from a cliff
Continue readingDo you have a ship’s wheel from a tall ship lying around your home?
When the tall ship James Craig was left to rot in Tasmania 40 years ago,
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