NEWSLETTERS

After a hectic and very successful end to 2019, with our Symposium on Historians and Truth Telling in November and our Christmas Sundowner in December, your History Council Committee has enjoyed some relaxation and reinvigoration over summer. Reports on those events follow in this newsletter, plus discussion of some heritage issues particularly in relation to rezoning across Perth, and early notice of our next Symposium, this time on Historians and the Environment, now in the planning stage.

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The State Library, the Royal Western Australian Historical Society, the Museum of Perth, the Centre for WA History and others are encouraging or building collections of images and other resources related to Covid 19 and the Lockdown.

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Stirling House in Nedlands has closed its doors, but staff and a small number of volunteers continue their good work behind the doors or in their homes.

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The State Library has been very active in response to the lockdown in making its collection available to the public, by digital means and through radio.

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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 WA historian John Toohey.

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The History Council has continued with its advocacy during the Lockdown.

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