Imogen Wegman deposited Casual Expansion by Land Grantees in Van Diemen’s Land on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 5 days ago
Talk 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. Two charges were…[Read more]
Imogen Wegman deposited Water wise: how rivers shaped a colony on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 5 days ago
(non-refereed) For the Europeans at Risdon Cove, 16 October 1803 looked like a normal day for their fledgling camp. Normal, of course, being a relative term here. The site was probably bustling, as the newcomers set about making their presence permanent on the edge of the River Derwent. Without fanfare, the 29-year-old Irishman James Meehan…[Read more]
Imogen Wegman deposited ‘A truly sublime appearance’: using GIS to find the traces of pre-colonial landscapes and land use on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 5 days ago
When the British landed on the island of Van Diemen’s Land in 1803, they found lands seemingly prepared for them. Abundant open plains drew the newcomers further inland, attracted by the prospects of further pastoral and agricultural success. What they neither understood nor acknowledged were the thousands of years of cultivation prior to their a…[Read more]
Imogen Wegman deposited The Causes of Common-Edge Drift: a Norfolk study on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 5 days ago
The phenomenon of settlements moving away from their churches, towards the edges of surrounding commons is known as ‘common-edge drift’. Existing literature emphasises the ‘isolated church’, but this not the only indication of common-edge drift – an ‘embedded’ church will often have been constructed after drift, within the new settlement. U…[Read more]
This blog post describes five steps for post-graduates trying to survive the conference season.
This article explains some basic principles for using historical maps in family history research.
Imogen Wegman deposited On paper, on screen, on site: family history in the 21st century on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 5 days ago
This article discusses the benefits of family history as a gentle entry point for individuals who ‘don’t like history’, with reference to the social history skills that are built into family history research.
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Imogen Wegman deposited The road to here: rivers were the highways of Australia’s colonial history on Humanities Commons 2 years ago
On November 2, 1816, Charles Repeat, “a poor old man”, was driving his master’s cart along the short route between Hobart and New Town in Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania). He accidentally drove over a small tree stump, and was thrown from the cart and killed immediately.
In our first blog post of the year, Dr Imogen Wegman provides a guide to tour guiding. Imogen, who recently completed her PhD in History at the University of Tasmania, talks about the joys and frustrations of leading tour groups, explains how it can improve your skills as a scholar and communicator, and shares some selections from her collection…[Read more]
Imogen Wegman deposited Land and People: Agricultural and Settlement Change in Van Diemen’s Land, 1803-35 on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months ago
A poster outlining the preliminary work of Imogen Wegman’s PhD thesis. Submitted to the Graduate Research Conference, University of Tasmania, 2014.
Imogen Wegman deposited A STUDY OF ‘COMMON-EDGE DRIFT’ IN NORFOLK on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months ago
The Norfolk landscape has continuously changed and developed over the centuries as farms have grown and amalgamated, towns expanded, and coastlines eroded. Although post-medieval alterations and additions have influenced the county’s landscape, the settlement patterns were created earlier, in the medieval period. One characteristic feature of t…[Read more]
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Imogen Wegman deposited Globalisation, Entrepreneurship and the South Pacific: Reframing Australian Colonial Architecture, 1800-1850 on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months ago
In 1957, Clinton Hartley Grattan, one of Australia’s most important foreign observers, wrote of the shadow of the “urban” in legends of the Australian “bush”.1 He argued that the early frontiers of Australian settlement were frontiers of men with private capital, or entrepreneurs, and those frontiers thus carried more elements of the urban tha…[Read more]
Imogen Wegman deposited A home for everyone? Property ownership has been about status and wealth since our convict days on Humanities Commons 3 years, 4 months ago
Article for The Conversation about the historic impact of status on land ownership in Australia.
Imogen Wegman‘s profile was updated on Humanities Commons 4 years, 4 months ago
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