2018 Margaret Medcalf Award
Since 2003, 16 researchers and historians, creating works on various Western Australian subjects, have won the Margaret Medcalf Award. Recognizing excellence in referencing and research using State Archives held by the State Records Office of Western Australia (SRO), the award honours Miss Margaret Medcalf OAM, Western Australia’s second State Archivist, for her valuable contribution to the development of archives in Western Australia.
RWAHS Booksale
RWAHS’s next Second Hand Book Sale will be held on 7-8 April 2018.
Please bring any books you no longer want to Stirling House or call the Office on 9386 3841 to arrange a pick up.
Many thanks in anticipation.
Day of Convicts
2018 marks 150 years since Hougoumont, the last convict ship to arrive in Australia, docked at Fremantle. To commemorate the sesquicentenary a bevy of events were planned. In January RWAHS hosted a lecture, “Hougoumont and its Warders and Pensioner Guards” and in February Pamela Statham Drew gave a lecture: “WA Convicts: their lives and influence on the Colony“.