RAHS Day Lecture – Home Talent: Australia’s Itinerant Filmmakers
Online via ZoomIn this lecture, Graham Shirley will talk about filmmakers who travelled the countryside making 'home talent' films starring a town's leading citizens.
Free
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RAHS Day Lecture – On Foot in Australia: Walking as a Path to Knowledge
Online via ZoomIn this lecture, Melissa Harper will explore the development of bushwalking as one of Australia's most popular recreational pursuit.
Free
RAHS Special Event – Hearing Maud: Deafness in the Archives
Online via ZoomIn this lecture, Jessica White will discuss her research on Maud Praed and how her own deafness shaped her research and writing on Maud.
Free
RAHS/WEA Workshop – The Street Where They Lived: Every Street Has A Story To Tell
Online via ZoomJoin Christine Yeats, Jenny Sloggett and Angela Phippen as they discuss the available resources and how to go about finding out more about the history of the street where they lived.
$32 – $35
RAHS Day Lecture – The Tasman Map: The Biography of a Map
Online via ZoomIn this lecture, Ian Burnet will present a biography of the Tasman Map, the Dutch voyages of discovery and how the Mitchell Library acquired this treasure.
Free
RAHS Special Event – Indigenous Intermediaries and the Art of Encounter
Online via ZoomIn this lecture, Tiffany Shellam will discuss the experiences of two Indigenous Australians who were intermediaries on maritime expeditions.
Free
Finding Your Ancestors: Researching Aboriginal Family History in NSW (Session 1 – April 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 – Judith Anderson: From Adelaide to Broadway and Hollywood [POSTPONED]
Online via ZoomIn this lecture, Desley Deacon will talk about her research on Judith Anderson, an Australian-born Leading Lady of the American Stage.
Free
RAHS Day Lecture – The Tragic Story of Cassim and Abdallah
Online via ZoomIn this lecture, Mark St Leon will talk about the tragic story of Cassim and Abdallah, two Indian performers accused of murder in colonial New South Wales.
Free
RAHS/ISAA Lecture – The Real Sacred River: Truth-Telling and the Power of Regional Histories
Online via ZoomIn this lecture, Grace Karskens will present her findings from a current collaborative project, The Real Secret River: Dyarubbin.
Free
RAHS Special Event – An Introduction to Managing Local Societies in Changing Times
Online via ZoomThe introduction will look at three key areas of concern for local societies: Governance and societies; Arranging and describing your collection; Planning a digitisation project.
Finding Your Ancestors: Researching Aboriginal Family History in NSW (Session 2 – May 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.
RAHS Day Lecture – That Luminous Moment: The ‘wild and enthusiastic’ ways of artist, mystic and republican Adelaide Ironside (1831-1867)
Online via ZoomIn this lecture, Kiera Lindsey will talk about artist and republican Adelaide Ironside, and reveal fresh insights into women's participation in colonial politics and the influence of new spiritualism during this period.
Free
NAW Evening Lecture – Tales of Sunny Corner: Gold Mining, Silver Smelting and the Birth of Broken Hill
Online via ZoomIn this National Archaeology Week lecture, Iain Stuart will talk about the gold and silver mining history of Sunny Corner and its connection to the birth of Broken Hill.
Free
Finding Your Ancestors: Researching Aboriginal Family History in NSW (Session 3 – June 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 – Truganini: Journey through the Apocalypse
Online via ZoomIn this lecture, Cassandra Pybus will talk about the subject of her book - Truganini: Journey through the Apocalypse (NewSouth 2020).
Free
RAHS Excursion – Reserve Bank of Australia Museum
Reserve Bank of Australia Museum 65 Martin Place, Sydney, NSWJoin the RAHS for its first excursion since March 2020! We're heading to the Reserve Bank of Australia Museum.
$5
Digging a Little Deeper: Biographical Writing and Research with a Twist
Online via ZoomJoin Heather Garnsey and Susan Steggall as they show you how to take the steps to dig a little deeper and write an interesting biography.
$32 – $35
RAHS Special Event – Floating Prisons: Irish Convict Hulks and Voyages to NSW
In this lecture, Anne McMahon will talk about the Irish convict hulks and the long voyage to NSW that reveals the Irish convict experience.
Free
Finding Your Ancestors: Researching Aboriginal Family History in NSW (Session 4 – July 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 – Secret and Special: The Untold Story of the Z Special Unit in the Second World War
Online via ZoomIn this lecture, Will Davis will discuss the secret campaigns of Special Operations Australia, more popularly known as the Z Special Unit.
Free
RAHS Excursion – St Mary’s Cathedral [POSTPONED]
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 Special Event – Cooking up a storm: Mina Rawson in Colonial Queensland
Online via ZoomIn this lecture, Jodi Frawley will discuss Mina Rawson's 'frontier years' in colonial Queensland and her interactions with local Aboriginal people.
Free
RAHS Special Event – Managing Local Societies in Changing Times
Online via ZoomThis session will look at two of the topics of interest that were identified from the survey: strategic planning and engaging a younger set.
$10
Finding Your Ancestors: Researching Aboriginal Family History in NSW (Session 5 – August 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 – Regina’s Complaint: Philip Roth, Penguin Books and the end of the literary censorship system in Australia
Online via ZoomIn this lecture, Patrick Mullins will trace Penguin's challenge to the literary censorship system in Australia by publishing Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint in 1970.
Free
RAHS Excursion – Justice & Police Museum: Murder Most Foul Tour [POSTPONED]
Justice & Police Museum Corner Albert and Phillip Streets, Sydney, NSWStep into the dark side of Sydney’s past with a visit to the Justice & Police Museum and delve into Sydney’s sinister history in this tour.
$20 – $25
Moving Image and Picture Research for Historians
Online via ZoomJoy Hughes and Graham Shirley will examine the sometimes-complex issues of access and reproduction for picture sources and moving images.
$32 – $35
Tips and Techniques for Dating Historic Photographs
Online via ZoomNewcastle University Archivist Gionni Di Gravio OAM will demonstrate the different methods of arranging and dating historic photographs.
$32 – $35
RAHS Day Lecture – The Countess from Kirribilli
Online via ZoomIn this lecture, Joyce Morgan will talk about Australian born, international literary sensation and member of the artistic and society salons of late nineteenth and early twentieth century Europe, Elizabeth von Arnim.
Free
Finding Your Ancestors: Researching Aboriginal Family History in NSW (Session 6 – Sept 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 Special Event – Frances Burke: Designer of Modern Textiles – Sydney Connections
Online via Zoom
Virtual Event
In this lecture, Nanette Carter and Robyn Oswald-Jacobs will talk about Frances Burke's career in the 1930s and her Sydney connections.
Free