The Heritage Council of WA recently received public submissions its draft listing of ‘Guildford Historic Town’ on the State Register of Heritage Places.
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The latest issue of the Friends of the Battye Library Newsletter (November 2018) carries two issues of particular interest.
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Back in 1961, the Tree Society published a short piece in The Swan Express, asking if anyone knew the age or anything about the history of what the Society described then as “The magnificent oak tree in the grounds of the Midland Junction Railway Station…”
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Jenny Gregory and Bobbie Oliver (eds)
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Each issue of the Newsletter is edited by a different member of the History Council’s management committee, using a standard template. This issue’s guest editor has been public historian Bruce Baskerville, who joined the committee at the last AGM.
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My last report in the Autumn Quarterly Newsletter detailed various advocacy issues that the History Council has been pursuing. It has been an extremely busy year!
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After the History Council’s AGM on Thursday 23rd of August Alec Coles delivered an excellent presentation for the History Council’s Annual Lecture.
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In July a seminar was held at Fremantle Prison to discuss recent scholarship in Western Australia’s penal history. It was a full day with local, interstate and international speakers presenting 12 papers.
Read MoreThe Australian Policy and History (APH) network seeks to inject historical knowledge into the Australian policy debate. APH is a partnership between the Contemporary Histories Research Group at Deakin University and the Australian National University.
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Culture and the Arts Minister Hon. David Templeman MLA presented the 2018 Margaret Medcalf Award at a ceremony on Thursday morning 28 June 2018. At this event joint winners were announced for the 2018 Award - Dr Joanna Sassoon and Dr Leigh Straw.
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Representatives from the Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage (DPLH) presented to members and guests of the AACAI WA recently, regarding the current non-statutory application of Aboriginal heritage management within the Department.
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The National Archives is committed to a continued presence in Western Australia and is close to finalising arrangements to ensure it has appropriate accommodation in Perth for future years.
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The 16th Biennial Conference of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History will be held
in the Perth Trades Hall building (now CFMEU Offices) 80 Beaufort Street, Perth, WA.
3-5 October, 2019.
Jenny Gregory and Bobbie Oliver (eds)
Contents listing at: www.cwah.uwa.edu.au/publications/journal/issue-32
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The Fremantle History Society (FHS) is offering a one-year scholarship valued at $2,000 for a research project relating to the history of Fremantle.
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This autumn our key focus has been advocating on issues of concern to members. These have included the possible sale of Landgate, the Eastern Guruma and the protection of Ngajanha Marnta (or Spear Hill), Western Australian Births, Deaths and Marriages Records, and fees at the new WA Museum
Tuesday 24th April, the day before Anzac Day, saw a large group of York people from all walks of life assemble in the space between the Shire Library and the Town Hall. The occasion was the launch of York’s Anzac Exhibition which Robert Mitchell, EO of Museums Galleries Australia, said was the third largest in the State, coming in after the Army Museum in Fremantle and the magnificent National Anzac Centre in Albany.
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Curtin University launched its Noongar language and Culture MOOC - massive open online course.
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The Australian Centre for Public History at UTS and 2SER 107.3 have come together to create History Lab, Australia’s first investigative history podcast, breathing life into public history and bringing it to new audiences. History Lab is about exploring the gaps between us and the past and invites listeners to participate in the making of history. Examining the legacies the past leaves in the present, it asks listeners to think about the silences, the unknowns and the unknowables in the stories we tell.
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The Foundation’s grants round this year are now open. Closing date for applications is Friday 3 August.
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