How picture boards were used as propaganda in the Vandemonian War
- Written by Kristyn Harman, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Tasmania
Detail from a reconstruction of a Tasmanian picture board by Simon Barnard (2015).Kristyn Harman and Nicholas Brodie, Author provided
As Hobart’s Old Government House was being demolished in the late 1850s, workers made a remarkable discovery. Lifting the floor, they found an old pine board covered with four rows of pictures. Six scenes...
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