NEWSLETTERS

• State Records Office update - important changes in retrieval times and location of the SRO Search Room.

• John Douglas Kerr Medal of Distinction for Research and Writing Australian History Deadline for entries is 31st March 2020.

Have you read our statement about the value of history?

In July, the History Councils of New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia jointly adopted a statement about the Value of History.

The Foundation was established in 1987 with encouragement from the Minister for Education of the time and with initial sponsorship from the Public Education Endowment Trust, its purpose to promote knowledge of Western Australian history. Subsequent corporate donations have increased the Foundation’s funds which are invested and used to fulfil the Foundation’s objects.

We are delighted that Bill Bunbury OAM, oral historian extraordinaire, has agreed to give the 2019 History Council Annual Lecture on Thursday, 22 August 2019 | 5:30-7pm |Great Southern Room, SLWA.

The Australian Society for the Study of Labour History (ASSLH), Perth Branch is very sad to announce the passing of our President, Neil Byrne, after a long illness. 

This year’s WA Heritage Awards was a standout night not just for the worthy winners but in light of the many heart–felt and emotionally charged speeches made by the recipients.

Congratulations to Dr Robin Barrington of Curtin University, who was awarded the 2019 Margaret Medcalf Medal for her journal article ‘A Race War: Tracing emotions on the Murchison frontier in Western Australia 1880-1915’.

The event was one in a series to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Academy “to acknowledge the contribution of the humanities to understanding our past and making sense of the present, and consider the role that the humanities will play in humanising the future”.

On 11 July 2019, the State Library of Western Australia in partnership with the Minderoo Foundation hosted a panel to explore how Aboriginal researchers talk about connections to Country and navigate our shared colonial history in these modern times.

History and heritage are not synonyms, something made clear in A Natural Battleground: The fight to establish a rail heritage centre at Western Australia’s Midland Railway Workshops, historian Bobbie Oliver’s most recent work, published on the 25th anniversary of the closure of the WAGR Railway Workshops at Midland.

This is an amazing Centre, not least because it represents a major collaboration between the Shire of Northam and the local Ballardong Nyoongar people. It is a timely milestone in the Reconciliation process as there has been much that has needed reconciling.