Into the Heart of Tasmania: Journeys in history writing

Into the Heart of Tasmania tells the story of English gentleman scientist, Ernest Westlake, who in 1908 collected over 13,000 Aboriginal stone tools across Tasmania and spoke to almost 100 Tasmanian settler and Aboriginal descendants about the Aboriginal past and culture. In this lecture, Rebe Taylor explores who Westlake was, why he went to Tasmania, and the parallel journey of what it was like to write his story. Rebe will then extend her own story back of how and why she became a historian before considering what might come next in her writing.