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RAHS/WEA* Workshop – Online Photographs from the Past
Bring your family history to life with historical photos that help you see things as your ancestors saw them. Explore websites such as Historypin, Flickr, Trove and Pinterest and learn how you can make them work for you.
Find out more »RAHS/Thredbo Historical Society – Cocktail Evening and Talk
Join the Royal Australian Historical Society and Thredbo Historical Society for their annual cocktail evening. Join guest speaker Randy Wieman, Australian and European freestyle skiing champion of the 1970s, who will discuss Australia’s transition from hot-dogging to freestyle skiing, including aerials, moguls and ballet.
Find out more »RAHS/HHA Evening Lecture – Art Deco Sydney: A Persistent Presence
In our first joint event with Historic Houses Association of Australia join Claudia Chan Shaw for this talk on Sydney Art Deco. This lecture will explore Art Deco Sydney, a visual culture defined not only through architecture, but also through graphic and interior design, the decorative arts and photography.
Find out more »RAHS/ASHET Evening Lecture – Saving the World: Australian Innovation in Solar Heat and Power
Join Debbie Rudder as she discusses the important contributions Australian engineers have made to the different types of solar water heaters and developments in photovoltaic technologies.
Find out more »RAHS Day Lecture – Where Australian Collides With Asia
Ian Burnet will discuss the epic voyages of natural history of Continent Australia and the British naturalists Joseph Banks, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. Each of these naturalists made huge contributions to our understanding of the unique flora and fauna of Australia, the effect of geological forces on the diversity of life forms in the natural world and the origin of species.
Find out more »Create NSW RAHS/State Archives & Records Seminar – Taking your Research Outside the Square
Join RAHS President Christine Yeats, Associate Professor and RAHS Senior Vice President Carol Liston AO, RAHS Treasurer Dr Kathrine Reynolds and Exhibitions Curator at NSW State Archives & Records Dr Penny Stannard for this research focused seminar at Kingswood.
Find out more »RAHS/HHA Lecture & Tour – Jorn Utzon’s Sydney Opera House: Architecture and the City
In our second joint event with Historic Houses Association of Australia, join Dr. Peter Kohane for this talk offering insights into Jorn Utzon’s work. The Sydney Opera House is analysed with reference to the platform, the relationship of the building to the city and the idea of a monument. Following the talk there will be a tour conducted by Steve McAuley, senior guide and history specialist at the Sydney Opera House. We all know this iconic landmark – but do we really? The tour will take you around the site and places where you may have never been before.
Find out more »RAHS Excursion – Guided Tour of the Reserve Bank of Australia Museum
Join us for a guided tour of the Reserve Bank of Australia Museum. The Museum tells the story of Australia's banknotes against the background of the nation's economic and social development, from colonial settlement through to the current era. Attendees are welcome to join us for morning tea at History House at 9:30am, before walking to the Reserve Bank. Alternatively, attendees can meet outside the Reserve Bank at 10:30am.
Find out more »RAHS Day Lecture – Conjuring India: Strange Tales of Magic and Mystery
Join John Zubrzycki as he discusses the connections in the field of magic between Australia and India dating back to 1853.
Find out more »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.
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