RAHS Day Lecture – Charles Darwin in Australia

Event Date & Time: Wednesday, 7 May 2025 @ 1.00 pm – 2.00 pm

Event Location: History House, 133 Macquarie St, Sydney NSW 2000

Cost: Free

Event Description:

Early in 1836, Charles Darwin spent two months in Australia as part of his voyage around the world on HMS Beagle. This lecture will be based on Darwin’s diary entries, illustrated with contemporary sketches and paintings by former fellow Beagle shipmates Conrad Martens and Augustus Earle. The complete story is told in the book Charles Darwin in Australia, co-authored by Frank and by his wife Jan, who, having worked in the pictures section of the State Library of NSW, was familiar with the relevant Martens and Earle illustrations.

About the speaker:

Frank Nicholas has been an academic at the University of Sydney for 50 years. As such, he has spent decades telling other people’s stories.