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2024 RAHS Conference at Campbelltown
The 2024 RAHS Conference will be held at the Campbelltown Catholic Club on 26-27 October 2024. In this video, the Campbelltown and Airds Historical Society issues a personal invitation to attend the conference and details some of the local attractions.
The conference program features topics on Campbelltown’s unique history, a deep dive into the Fisher’s Ghost Festival, and the latest digital tools and resources to support history projects. There are also plenty of opportunities to network, including a welcome reception at the Campbelltown Arts Centre. On Sunday, 27 October, we will present the Certificates of Achievement and Appreciation, which recognise the invaluable contributions made by individuals to historical societies throughout NSW.
We look forward to seeing you there!
For more information and to book online, visit: www.rahs.org.au/2024-rahs-conference/
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What Is So Good About Crime: Historians Edition - Nancy Cushing
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While crime statistics trend downward, the appetite for stories about crime just keeps growing. This abiding interest makes historical crime a tempting area for historians to pursue their own interests or write histories that people want to read. Associate Professor Nancy Cushing was our guest for the RAHS Day Lecture on 1 May 2024. Her topic was 'What Is So Good About Crime'. Nancy spoke about...
Garden Design Using Australian Plants: A History - Stuart Read
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On Wednesday, 20 September 2023, landscape historian Stuart Read was our guest speaker for our monthly lecture. In this talk, Stuart discussed the history of Australian garden design using native plants, including waves of fashions (it didn't just start in the 1960s), players who were influential, and examples of gardens that remain so. You will be surprised to learn how early and how widely na...
Early Escapes from Sydney by Sea: The unknown routes to the Spanish Americas - Chris Maxworthy
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On Wednesday, 6 June 2023, Chris Maxworthy was our guest speaker for our monthly lecture. In this talk, Chris expands on his research in Spanish language archives of the Americas and Spain. Chris reveals the convicts, soldiers, mariners and stowaways who exited Sydney illicitly. In this rich tale are former soldiers of the Sydney garrison escaping debts, time-expired convicts joining up with vi...
The Shipwreck: The True Story of the Dunbar - Larry Writer
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In 'The Shipwreck: The True Story of the Dunbar', author Larry Writer chronicles the tragedy when, in a ferocious storm at midnight on 20 August 1857, Dunbar, a magnificent sailing clipper, collided with the cliffs of outer South Head and 121 of the 122 passengers and crew perished. Larry reveals why the ship crashed, who was to blame, and follows the personal stories of its crew, the passenger...
How to use the Members' Area on the RAHS website
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In this instructional video, we will show you how to use the online members-only area on the RAHS website. We will show you how to log in, reset your password, navigate the site, and start accessing exclusive history content. We hope you find this instructional video helpful and enjoy the benefits of being a member of the Royal Australian Historical Society.
Introduction to the new Museums of History NSW website
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Martyn Killion introduces the new Museums of History NSW website, now online at: mhnsw.au/, which brings the previous State Archives and Sydney Living Museums websites together. Martyn guides participants through the site’s many features including the new ‘Subjects A-Z’ area, which combines links to all the indexes, guides, webinars and events relating to that subject, and the facility to searc...
2023 RAHS Conference at Wagga Wagga: A invitation from Geoff Burch
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The 2023 RAHS Conference will be held in Wagga Wagga at the Wagga Wagga RSL Club on 21-22 October 2023. In this video, Geoff Burch (President of the Wagga Wagga and District Historical Society) issues a personal invitation to attend and details some of the local attractions. The Conference will feature talks, tours and opportunities to network with members of the RAHS and its affiliated societi...
Vademonians: The Repressed History of Colonial Victoria - Janet McCalman
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It was meant to be ‘Victoria the Free’, uncontaminated by the Convict Stain. Yet they came in their tens of thousands as soon as they were cut free or able to bolt. More than half of all those transported to Van Diemen’s Land as convicts would one day settle or spend time in Victoria. There they were demonised as Vandemonians. Some could never go straight; a few were the luckiest of gold digger...
Secret and Special: The untold story of the Z Special Unit in the Second World War - Will Davies
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While war raged across the globe, the Japanese were facing a series of audacious operations across their occupied territories, undertaken by the highly secret Special Operations Australia, more popularly known as the Z Special Unit. Operational areas included PNG, Timor, Borneo, Sarawak, the Molucca and Celebes, Singapore, even Indochina. Since 1945, while a number of books have been written, m...
1920s & 1930s: Entertainment Media Revolution - Graham Shirley
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1920s & 1930s: Entertainment Media Revolution Entertainment media in Australia was transformed by the 1920s and 1930s. The newly introduced radio broadcasting became an entertainment and educational medium and imported as well as locally made films showed Hollywood’s increasing influence. An era of city picture palaces was replaced by the spread of suburban and rural cinemas, and throughout the...
Hopes and Dreams of the New Federal Capital: The Calthorpes’ House Collection - Anna Wong
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Hopes and Dreams of the New Federal Capital: The Calthorpes’ House Collection and Mrs Calthorpes’ Shopping Spree Dr Anna Wong (Director, ACT Historic Places) discusses the family history of Calthorpes’ House and its collection (along with contemporaneous comparisons with our current Covid spurred online shopping). Built in 1927, Mrs Calthorpe furnished her new house through mail-order catalogue...
Australian Architecture in the 1920s: Building for a healthy new world - Scott MacArthur
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Australian Architecture in the 1920s: Building for a healthy world In this lecture, Scott MacArthur (Marrickville Heritage Society) discusses 1920s architecture, including its aspirational and health-based aspects. Scott MacArthur is a conservation architect, and is currently in his ninth year as President of the Marrickville Heritage Society. He is a previous winner of a NSW Government Heritag...
Truganini: Journey through the apocalypse - Cassandra Pybus
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Cassandra Pybus recounts that her ancestors told a story of an old Aboriginal woman who would wander across their farm on Bruny Island, in south-east Tasmania, in the 1850s and 1860s. As a child, Cassandra didn’t know this woman was Truganini, and that Truganini was walking over the country of her clan, the Nuenonne. In writing Truganini: Journey through the apocalypse, Cassandra Pybus has exam...
Floating Prisons: Irish Convict Hulks and Voyages to NSW - Anne McMahon
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During the years 1823 to 1837 men in Ireland who had been sentenced to transportation were held in two prison hulks: the Surprize and the Essex. 12,000 prisoners from the two hulks were transported to Sydney. They came on 61 convict voyages of hired merchant ships controlled by naval surgeons. Floating Prisons portrays life on these hulks. Punishment was harsh. Diet was at starvation level. Clo...
Mid-Century Consorts and the Changing of the Guard - Joy Hughes
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Mid-Century Consorts and the Changing of the Guard - Joy Hughes
Scandals in Government House - or were they? Stories of Lady Loftus & Lady Lygon - Bruce Baskerville
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Scandals in Government House - or were they? Stories of Lady Loftus & Lady Lygon - Bruce Baskerville
The Role of the Vice-Regal Consort in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Carol Liston
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The Role of the Vice-Regal Consort in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Carol Liston
Catherine Bishop - 'A Useful Accessory' with Too Much Cabbage and Jesus Christ
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Catherine Bishop - 'A Useful Accessory' with Too Much Cabbage and Jesus Christ
Melissa Harper - On Foot In Australia: Walking as a Path to Knowledge
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Melissa Harper - On Foot In Australia: Walking as a Path to Knowledge
Deaccessioning your collection - A light-hearted look at how not to do it!
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Deaccessioning your collection - A light-hearted look at how not to do it!
Kiera Lindsey - That Luminous Moment: The 'wild and enthusiastic' ways of Adelaide Ironside
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Kiera Lindsey - That Luminous Moment: The 'wild and enthusiastic' ways of Adelaide Ironside
David Carment - The Adventures of Waltzing Matilda
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David Carment - The Adventures of Waltzing Matilda
Graham Shirley - Home Talent: Australia's Itinerant Filmmakers
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Graham Shirley - Home Talent: Australia's Itinerant Filmmakers
Researching Soldiers in Your Local Community - Australian War Memorial
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Researching Soldiers in Your Local Community - Australian War Memorial
Researching Soldiers in Your Local Community - Trove
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Researching Soldiers in Your Local Community - Trove
Researching Soldiers in Your Local Community - National Archives of Australia
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Researching Soldiers in Your Local Community - National Archives of Australia
Researching Soldiers in Your Local Community - Introduction and Overview
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Researching Soldiers in Your Local Community - Introduction and Overview
Grace Karskens - The Real Sacred River: Truth-Telling and the Power of Regional Histories
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Grace Karskens - The Real Sacred River: Truth-Telling and the Power of Regional Histories
Tiffany Shellam - Indigenous Intermediaries and the Art of Encounter
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Tiffany Shellam - Indigenous Intermediaries and the Art of Encounter

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    Thank you for an interesting lecture. My GGG Grandfather was a 14-year-old drummer boy from the 57th Regiment, Thomas Key, on The Hooghley in 1825, escorting convicts from Cork to Sydney. Many of those convicts I surmise were kept on The Surprize before departure. I have ordered the book which I look forward to reading.

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