New Australian Policy and History (APH) website Policy Brief
In Australian Policy and History’s latest policy brief, PhD students Honae Cuffe and Anna Kent write about the use of Australian ‘soft power’ in the Asia Pacific.
2018 RWAHS Affiliates Committee’s State History Conference
The Cervantes conference kicked off brilliantly in the Lobster Shack, an icon in the town known for its lobster fishing fleet and processing plant. We were to find out over the weekend that almost the whole Town of Cervantes contributed in some way to this conference!
“Gardens in times of Peace and Conflict”
Coinciding with the centenary of cessation of hostilities in World War 1, the theme of Gardens in times of Peace and Conflict enabled presenters to explore the creation of gardens and cultural landscapes by men and women with a strong sense of purpose.
If a branch falls and you didn’t hear it …
As I write, news is coming in that a huge old Moreton Bay Fig Tree at UWA between Winthrop Hall and the Arts Building has partly, and suddenly, collapsed.
Guildford State Heritage Listing
The Heritage Council of WA recently received public submissions its draft listing of ‘Guildford Historic Town’ on the State Register of Heritage Places.
Video Tape Archives and Map Geo-referencing
The latest issue of the Friends of the Battye Library Newsletter (November 2018) carries two issues of particular interest.
Midland’s Magnificent Oak
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…”
War and Emotions : Studies in Western Australian History Volume 32, 2018
Jenny Gregory and Bobbie Oliver (eds)
Guest Editor for the Spring 2018 Issue
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.
President’s Report
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!