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The Pakana Voice

August 24, 2019 TasWriters

Tales of a War Correspondent 1814 -1856 The Pakana Voice, a new book by Ian Broinowski, written with cultural advice…

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Posted in: 2019 News, History and Culture Filed under: Aboriginal, Henry Reynolds, history, Ian Broinowski, Jim Everett, pakana, palawa, puralia meenamatta, settlers, Van Diemen's Land
The Broad Arrow

The Broad Arrow

August 22, 2019 TasWriters

Women’s lives in Van Diemen’s Land Award winning writer Amanda Lohrey talks to Jenna Mead about The Broad Arrow; Being…

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Posted in: 2019 News, History and Culture Filed under: Amanda Lohrey, convicts, history, Jenna Mead, settlers, Van Diemen's Land, women, writers
Rowan Gillespie's Footsteps Towards Freedom

History Writing: The Van Diemen History prize

August 21, 2019 TasWriters

Good writing about history can be engaging, insightful, poignant or intriguing, but the underlying research will always be authentic and…

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Posted in: 2019 News, History and Culture Filed under: Forty South, history, Imogen Wegman, Kirstyn Harman, Nick Brodie, Paige Gleeson, Terry Mulhern, Tony Fenton, Van Diemen History Prize, Van Diemen's Land, writers
Margaretta Pos's books

The Unknown Valley

July 20, 2019 TasWriters

The white female response to the local landscape: Elizabeth Fenton in the 1830s and her great-great-granddaughter Ann Page in the…

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Posted in: 2019 News, History and Culture Filed under: history, Journals, Margaretta Pos, settlers, Van Diemen's Land, women

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