May Guest Speaker
First Fleet entering harbour
Just a reminder that our May speaker, Bruce Shying, will be "spinning us a yarn" about women who went to sea in the early days of sail, You are invited…
“Do Not Forget Australia”
These words, emblazoned on banners and blackboards, are found in the French school at Villers-Bretonneux, a small village lying among green fields just south of the river Some. This Anzac…
Sir John Monash Centre
The Centre is named after General Sir John Monash, who led the Australian Corps with outstanding success on the Western Front in 1918, including the famous 4 July 1918 victory…
Thank you
Museums are a very important asset for any local government area. They hold the keys to the past as well as looking towards the future. For the most part they…
A Pleasant Way to Pass Time
Board games were fun for all
Without television, and before the days of wireless, family games were high on the list of favourite pastimes. Classics such as draughts, ludo, chess, snakes and ladders, checkers, dominoes and…
Esther Abrahams: From Convict to ‘First Lady’
Esther Abrahams
Her Newgate Prison jailors never imagined how far Esther Abrahams would travel. In 1786 London, pregnant prisoners like this young Jewish woman often died before or soon after giving birth. …
Back in the Day (6) . . . Everyday Life and How it Was Lived a Hundred Years ago.
Communications and Correspondence: SMS, telephones, cellphones, email, Instant Messaging, Skype, Twitter and Facebook…these days we have so many dozens of ways to communicate. We seem to forget that not too…
