In this seminar, we will launch a brand-new special issue of Public History Review which is devoted to the Statue Wars and based upon a two-part seminar series hosted by the History Council of NSW shortly after the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020.
Stephen Gapps’ new book The Sydney Wars is out now! Published in May 2018, Gapps charts the history of military engagements between Europeans and Aboriginal Australians around the greater Sydney region.
The Blackheath History Forum finish up their 2017 program with a talk by Professor Grace Karskens on recovering the Hawkesbury’s vanished places: Sat 21 Oct.
Rebe Taylor delivers the inaugural Coral Thomas Fellowship Lecture on John Helder Wedge at the State Library of NSW: Thu 19 Oct, 5:30pm.
Professor Lynette Russell will deliver the 2nd Bicentennial Australian History Lecture at the University of Sydney on Thursday 19 October 2017, 5-7:30pm.