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RAHS NAIDOC Week Exhibition & Walking Tours – This is Where they Travelled
To celebrate NAIDOC Week, the RAHS presents – This is Where they Travelled: Historical Aboriginal Lives in Sydney Exhibition (Free) and Walking Tour($5-$10) It is often wrongly assumed that Aboriginal people disappeared from Sydney in the nineteenth century, or lost their cultural links to the area. Researchers from the La Perouse Aboriginal community in Sydney have created an exhibition together with historian Paul Irish, which maps the lives of a number of Aboriginal people with connections to the coastal part…
Find out more »RAHS/WEA Workshop – Writing a Life: Key Elements of Historical Biography
Whether your interest is a single life or group of people, this session provides an introduction to the biographical process. Coordinated by RAHS Councillor Dr Peter Hobbins, this workshop will examine various approaches and historical sources – offering practical suggestions on researching and writing your own biographical project.
Find out more »RAHS Day Lecture – Returning Home with Glory: Cantonese Villages and Australia before 1949
Join historian Dr Michael Williams as he provides us with a history of the Chinese in Australia that goes beyond the stereotypes of gold miners and market gardeners.
Find out more »RAHS Excursion – Guided Tour of the Parliament of NSW
Parliament House, Sydney, n.d Join us for a guided tour of Australia's first and oldest Parliament. This tour will include the two Legislative Chambers and some of the historic rooms and areas of the Parliament (subject to availability of those spaces at the time). Learn about the role, history, workings of the Parliament and experience first-hand the beautiful colonial Georgian architecture. The Parliament of NSW has been at the centre of the history of New South Wales and remains part…
Find out more »RAHS/FOCP* Excursion – Walking Tour of Callan Park
Join us for a guided walking tour of Callan Park in Sydney's inner west. This site contains 61 hectares of exceptionally beautiful, undulating parkland, nestled on the Sydney Harbour foreshores and preserved by historical accident – but is still in need of a Trust to manage the site, despite the Callan Park Act being put in place late 2002.
Find out more »RAHS/HHA Evening Lecture – Surry Hills: From Riches to Rags and Back Again
In our third joint event with Historic Houses Association of Australia, join Richard Whitaker as he discusses the diverse development of Surry Hills. From elegant estates and mansions in the 1820s and 30s, to crowded and slum-like conditions in the 1890s.
Find out more »History Week – Archives: Living Beyond the Grave
To coincide with History Week and this year's theme of 'Life & Death', join Emily Hanna from State Archives & Records as she discusses how the NSW State Archives collection provides an insight into the lives of the departed.
Find out more »History Week Day Lecture – Sandgate Cemetery ‘Unearthed’
Sandgate Cemetery was opened in 1881 and continues to service the burial needs of Newcastle to this day. Join Terry St George as he ‘uncovers’ some of the well-known and infamous burials in the Cemetery.
Find out more »Cancelled RAHS Seminar – Fostering Community Histories of the 1918–19 Influenza Pandemic
This pilot seminar is intended to bring together interested community, professional and academic historians with groups from the Sydney region to canvass ideas, projects and best practice for commemorating the 1918–19 influenza pandemic.
Find out more »RAHS/ASHET Evening Lecture – By Muscle of Man and Horse: Building the Railway under Sydney 1916–32
Join Bill Phippen as he discusses the chance discovery of a long missing photo album by Sydney Trains' staff and how it led to the scanning of 1500 construction photos of the City Railway between 1916 and 1935.
Find out more »RAHS/NSW ISAA Lecture – Charles Dickens and his Performed Readings
In our joint event with the NSW Chapter of the Independent Scholars Association of Australia (ISAA), join Isabel Deeble as she discusses why Charles Dickens performed readings were the great theatrical sensation of the day.
Find out more »RAHS Day Lecture – Pigs Behaving Badly: Animal Agency in the Hunter Valley, 1840–60
Join Nancy Cushing as she discusses how pigs were permitted a level of autonomy which drew public censure, governmental regulation and direct punishment by examining instances in the Hunter Valley between 1840–60.
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