Local History Session – “Find my Past” of my family
As part of History Week 2018, Woollahra Libraries will be hosting a fascinating workshop on how to use the ‘Find my Past’ database.
Dreadfully Mangled: The Violent Demise of William Reynolds Jr. in 1838 and the Perception of Unnatural Death in the Penal Colony of NSW
Melissa Holmes will use the tragic death of William Reynolds Jr. in 1838 to explore the way death was perceived and dealt with in the pre-industrial penal colony of Sydney in the early nineteenth century.