NATIONAL TRUST NEWS - C Y O’Connor Lecture 2010
Saints and sinners, healers and whores: women on the goldfields in the 1890s

Associate Professor Delys Bird – honorary research fellow in the School of Social and Cultural Studies at UWA, editor of Westerly and Chair of WritingWA – will explore the early years of struggle and boom on the goldfields.

Kalgoorlie: Monday 15 March

5.45 for 6pm

WA School of Mines, WMC Conference Centre

44 McDonald Street, Kalgoorlie

While the lives of heroic men are found in the historic record, the voices of women often remain silent. This year’s CY O’Connor Lecture will reveal much about the lives of women who braved a man’s world and life in general on the goldfields at a defining time in our state’s history. Using a range of rare texts, Assoc Prof Delys Bird will explore the adaptability, entrepreneurial flair and often resolute endurance of women on the goldfields in the 1890s.

Join members and friends of the National Trust to explore this fascinating and little known area of Western Australian history to be followed by a light supper. All welcome. Members / Concessions $15, Non-members $20. Proceeds to the National Trust’s Golden Pipeline. Donations to the National Trust are tax deductible.

Bookings essential.

RSVP

KALGORLIE: Thursday 11 March

9321 6088 or via trust@ntwa.com.au