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A History of the Launceston Synagogue

A brief history of a historical gathering place in Launceston
  • Issue Fifty Four
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Helen Webberley

November 15, 2020
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The Forgotten Tasmanian Emus

Where has our largest bird gone?
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  • Issue Fifty Two
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Editor

January 1, 2020
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An Eye for Detail – Architectural Drawings of Notable Buildings

A skilful coloured pencil drawing can bring out vibrancy in the most solid of buildings...
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Horst Tiefholz

January 1, 2020
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Tiny Images – A Collection of Stamps

Way back in the 20th century, before emails and smartphones, messages travelled around the world powered by tiny little paintings...
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  • Issue Fifty One
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Editor

August 26, 2019
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The Hidden Hexafoils: The Tasmanian Magic Project

The first Europeans in Tasmania brought the magic of their homelands into their homes...
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Tasmanian Magic Project

August 26, 2019
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Modern Mapping – A 1958 Film Documentary

Sixty years ago, this island was mapped, measured, and photographed using skills unfamiliar to us in the electronic era
  • Agency for the Understanding of Terrain
  • Issue Forty Nine
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Special Arrangement

April 4, 2018
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Protecting the Shipwrecks of Tasmania

Lost at sea, and found again
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Special Arrangement

September 21, 2017
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Early Recycling at Shag Bay

The story of Bonemill Bay.
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John and Maria Grist

November 25, 2016
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Threads of Memory: Nostalgia Tasmania

"What better way to remember a time and place and all the memories held dear?"
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Nostalgia Tasmania

November 25, 2016
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The Plague of Blackberries

As the emus left, the blackberries arrived...
  • Agency for the Understanding of Terrain
  • Issue Forty Five
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Bert Spinks

October 1, 2016
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Flowers of the Sky: Comets throughout history

Dirty snowballs from the far reaches of the solar system!
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  • Issue Forty Four
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Public Domain Review

August 6, 2016
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From A Picturesque Atlas of Australasia (1898)

Lavishly illustrated and wildly popular, this book introduced readers of the Empire to New Zealand, mainland Australia, and Tasmania
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  • Issue Forty Three
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Special Arrangement

June 15, 2016
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A Gateway to Charm – Northwest Tasmania (1955)

1955 tourism assertions: "You will begin to feel that all of your dreams of peace and contentment are at last coming true"
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  • Issue Forty Three
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June 15, 2016
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Meditations on Winter Customs

Short days and long nights can be bring familiarity and meaning.
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Bert Spinks

May 1, 2016
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Scorched Northwest: Tarkine on Fire

A photo-documentary following the January bushfires in the northwest of the island.
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  • Issue Forty One
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Nicole Anderson

March 25, 2016
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An Early Ultramarathon: The 1903 Go-As-You-Please Mountain Race

Pedestrianism at its most challenging - the early days of ultra-marathons
  • Issue Forty One
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John and Maria Grist

March 25, 2016
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The Volcano Photography of Tempest Anderson

" He decided that his ‘limited leisure’ time could not be filled with reading, writing or socialising, he sought to occupy himself with something more...
  • Department of Terrestrial Exploration
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  • Issue Thirty Eight
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Public Domain Review

November 1, 2015
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Five Decades Ago: A Tasmanian Story

"It is a land washed by the seas on every side...Strange tigers and prehistoric animals made the island their home."
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Special Arrangement

October 1, 2015
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Underground Australia

A compilation of historical photographs from the subterranean world, compiled courtesy the National Library of Australia
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  • Issue Thirty Five
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August 1, 2015
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The Stories They Tell: An Introduction to Oral History

The richness, the humour, and the emotion of times past...
  • Issue Thirty Four
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Ben Ross

July 1, 2015
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Stories of the D’Entrecasteaux Channel

Remembering the past and imagining the future of the Channel
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  • Issue Thirty Four
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Sheltered Passage

July 1, 2015
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Anatomia Universa

Two hundred years ago, the universe within was being explored, charted, and marvelled at...
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  • Issue Thirty Four
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Special Arrangement

July 1, 2015
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Gallipoli: Through the Soldier’s Lens

"Amidst the monotony of trench life – the flies, heat, dust, stench and thirst of the summer stalemate – they found people and events worth...
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  • Issue Thirty Two
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Public Domain Review

April 30, 2015
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The Arrival of Hops and the Family of Water Willie

"And although Ebenezer was producing an intoxicant that (it could be said) created negative social effects throughout his native island, he was a godly man..."
  • Issue Thirty Two
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Bert Spinks

April 30, 2015
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