Tasmania History Archives

Cascades Female Factory : Exploring A UNESCO Site With Kids

The Cascades Female Factory focuses on the experience of convict women – the only site dedicated to this in Australia. To open my first history lesson for the year, I asked my students to write down as many figures from Australian history as they could in 5 minutes. They jumped straight on task, some listing …

Port Arthur with Kids There is a site in Tasmania whose mere name when mentioned draws goosebumps on the arms of most Australians. It has an abhorrent past spanning right back to when it was a penal settlement, with its modern history possibly even scarier. It’s a place of contradictions, both beautiful yet ugly; light filled yet …