RAHS Day Lecture – French Connection: Australia’s Cosmopolitan Ambitions
In this lecture, Alexis Bergantz will discuss the history of Australia's fascination with French culture and the French presence in Australia.
Free
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Finding Your Ancestors: Researching Aboriginal Family History in NSW (Dec 2021)
Online via ZoomJoin Paul Irish and Michael Bennett, and special guests from Aboriginal communities, archives and libraries, for our monthly online series as they answer your questions about the best way to research your family.
Free
RAHS Day Lecture – The Unfinished Nation: Contesting Symbols of Australia
Online via ZoomIn this lecture, Richard White will survey some of the shifts in Australian national symbolism over two centuries and especially the last decade.
Free
RAHS/WEA Workshop – Family History Meets Local History Using Trove
Online via ZoomThis workshop will guide participants through the resources available through Trove, exploring how to link family and local history research.
$32 – $35
RAHS Excursion – Sites and Crimes on Sydney’s Waterfront
Wharf 6 Circular Quay Wharf 6 Circular Quay, Sydney, NSWJoin Judith Dunn OAM for a walking tour that will explore the darker side of Sydney’s waterfront, taking in sites of crimes and scandals.
$10
RAHS Day Lecture – Deep blue history: Writing ‘Australia and the Pacific: A History’
Online via ZoomIn this lecture, Ian Hoskins will discuss how he came to write his broad ranging history of Australia and the Pacific.
Free
RAHS Excursion – Balmoral Walk
Balmoral Esplanade The Esplanade, Mosman, NSWJoin David Carment AM for a walking tour of Balmoral that will focus on the people closely associated with the area's many historic places.
$15
RAHS Special Event – The Convict Valley: The bloody struggle on Australia’s early frontier
Online via ZoomIn this lecture, Mark Dunn will talk about the history of the Newcastle and Hunter Valley frontier and reflect on their colonial past.
Free
RAHS Excursion – Whispering Bones Tour
St Johns Cemetery O'Connell St & Aird St, Parramatta, NSWJoin Judith Dunn OAM for a tour of the oldest cemetery in Australia and see the earliest European gravestone in Australia on its original site.
$10
RAHS Day Lecture – The Wardian Case: How a Simple Box Moved Plants and Changed the World
Online via ZoomIn this lecture, Luke Keogh will talk about the Wardian Case, an invention which revolutionised the movement of plants and changed the world.
Free
RAHS Special Event – Dear Prime Minister: Letters to Robert Menzies, 1949-1966
Online via ZoomIn this lecture, Martyn Lyons will discuss the letters sent to Robert Menzies during his second term as prime minister between 1949-1966.
Free
RAHS Day Lecture – Sound Citizens: Australian Women Broadcasters Claim their Voice, 1923-1956
Online via ZoomIn this lecture, Catherine Fisher will discuss women broadcasters on the radio and how it normalised women's presence in the public sphere.
Free
RAHS/NAW Lecture – Known, Unknowns: The Archaeology of the Devonshire Street Cemetery
Online via ZoomIn this NAW lecture, Iain Stuart will talk about the history of the Devonshire Street Cemetery and the recent archaeological programs on the site.
Free
RAHS Day Lecture – Australia’s Great Depression
Online via ZoomIn this lecture, Joan Beaumont will talk about Australia's Great Depression and the upheavals it caused to society and politics in Australia.
Free
RAHS Special Event – Joseph Conrad’s Eastern Voyages
Online via ZoomIn this lecture, Ian Burnet will talk about Joseph Conrad's eastern voyages and how these experiences influenced his earlier books.
Free
The Stories Behind the Pictures: Shedding Light on the Photographic Materials in the NSW State Archives
Online via ZoomThis workshop will discuss the photographic materials in the NSW State Archives and guide participants on how to use them for their research.
$32 – $35
RAHS Excursion – St Mary’s Cathedral
St Mary's Cathedral 2 St Mary’s Road, Sydney, NSWJoin us for a tour of St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney. This 90 minute tour will highlight the history of the Cathedral and Cathedral Crypt.
$10
RAHS Excursion – Rookwood Cemetery Bus Tour
Rookwood Cemetery Rookwood, NSWJoin Judith Dunn OAM for a bus tour of Rookwood Cemetery - the extraordinary “Sleeping City” established in 1868.
$20
RAHS Day Lecture – Vandemonians: The Repressed History of Colonial Victoria
Online via ZoomIn this lecture, Janet McCalman will talk about the life stories of the Vandemonians and the repressed convict history of Victoria.
Free
RAHS Special Event – History of the Australian Backyard
Online via ZoomIn this lecture, Judy Horton OAM will discuss the history of the Australian backyard and ask where are our gardens heading in future.
Free
RAHS Day Lecture – Spies and Sparrows: ASIO and the Cold War [CANCELLED]
Online via ZoomIn this lecture, Phillip Deery will talk about history of ASIO during the Cold War and the impact of its surveillance on Australian citizens.
Free
RAHS Special Event – Crime, Punishment and a Noseless Hangman in Colonial NSW
Online via ZoomIn this lecture, Rachel Franks will discuss the life and deaths of Robert 'Nosey Bob' Howard, the longest-serving public executioner for NSW.
Free
RAHS/WEA Workshop – Lawyers and Land
Online via ZoomIn this workshop you will learn how to find out about your ancestors from the various solicitor records in the State Library of NSW.
$32 – $35
RAHS Day Lecture – No Slavery in a Free Land? Anti-Slavery and Australia
Online via ZoomIn this lecture, Professor Jane Lydon will explore the relationship between the anti-slavery movement and the transportation of convicts to Australia.
Free
RAHS Excursion – Museum of Freemasonry
Museum of Freemasonry Level 3, 66 Goulburn Street, Sydney, NSWJoin us for a tour of the Museum of Freemasonry. The collection includes the Museum, Archives, Gallery and Library of the Freemasons of Australia.
$15
RAHS Day Lecture – ‘Tumble Down White Fellow’: The Bathurst War 1822-24
Online via ZoomIn this lecture, Dr Stephen Gapps will discuss the 1822-24 Bathurst War and how effective Wiradyuri resistance warfare really was.
Free
Country Calling: History on the Land
Online via ZoomLearn about new developments in local and community history as we explore Country Calling: History on the Land.
$15 – $25
RAHS Special Event – Elizabeth and John: The Macarthurs of Elizabeth Farm
Online via ZoomIn this lecture Alan Atkinson will talk about Elizabeth and John Macarthur and tell their story from a wholly new angle.
Free
![HIS NATURAL LIFE : [1927] : GEORGE FISHER (RUFUS DAWES) STANDING BEHIND EVA NOVAK (SYLVIA VICKERS), SITTING A SIGHT-SEEING RAIL CAR BEING PUSHED ALONG BY CONVICTS, HEAD DOWN LOOKING TOWARDS THE FLOOR](https://www.rahs.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/For-the-Term-of-His-Natural-Life-1927.jpg "For the Term of His Natural Life 1927")
RAHS Day Lecture – For the Term of His Natural Life (1927): A Film Lost and Found
Online via ZoomIn this lecture Graham Shirley will talk about the 1927 Australian film adaptation of Marcus Clarke’s novel, For the Term of His Natural Life.
Free
Felons, Forgers and Fraudsters in the 19th and early 20th centuries [Postponed]
Online via ZoomIn this workshop you will learn how to track convicts, felons, forgers and fraudsters using 19th- and early 20th-century court records.
$32 – $35