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25.01.2022 This is a very strange development. What is the rationale for the proposed merger? Synergies between NSW State Archives and Sydney Living museums are not all obvious. They have entirely different legislative and management responsibilities. The SLM is more akin to the National Trust with historic sites, collections, and cultural landscapes.

25.01.2022 A must listen Joy Damousi with Phillip Adams on RN ABC Late Night Live

25.01.2022 The 1950s UFO scare. Anyone out there seen a UFO?

24.01.2022 A fascinating profile of the woman behind FD Roosevelt's New Deal in the Depression.

24.01.2022 This is a shocking story. There were attempts to gain access to the funds a decade ago - but the claim did not succeed. Let's hope this class action is successful.

24.01.2022 Bake like an Egyptian! For all those of us now baking bread.

23.01.2022 If anyone in Australia is planning to enrol in an Arts or Communications degree, you can save on fees if you enrol in at least one subject before Christmas.

22.01.2022 Commemorating deliverance from the plague of the 16th century.

21.01.2022 More - the detail makes it more complex than some make out.

20.01.2022 Excellent news. Community activism saves Sydney's iconic Powerhouse Museum in heritage buildings in Ultimo!

20.01.2022 Proposed Demolition of two Federation Homes at 690 and 692 Beaufort Street Mt Lawley. The Mount Lawley Society and our local community oppose the demolition of ...690 and 692 Beaufort Street, Mount Lawley. These heritage properties are in excellent condition and have been part of our streetscape and character of Beaufort Street since 1903, when it was built for the Schruth family. No 692 was built in 1915 for the Cohen family. Both families are part of Perth and Mt Lawley history and both homes are excellent examples of the Federation style. Even though No 692 has been updated at some stage, the Federation bones are still very much intact. The properties are in a Heritage Protection Area in Mount Lawley and the Beaufort Street Plan which aims to protect and conserve quality heritage and character properties. This includes commercial properties which fall under the Beaufort Street Local Development Plan a statutory document for the local area. The Heritage Protection Design Guidelines Policy 3.1 calls for protection and retention of quality significant character heritage homes in the area dating back pre 1950s. The proposed applications do not meet the LDP objectives or the Heritage Protection Guidelines. Please go to https://www.stirling.wa.gov.au//request-to-save-heritage-h to stop this destruction of our history. Also, contact your Lawley Ward Councillors and voice your concerns: [email protected], [email protected]

20.01.2022 what happened to the rubble from a bombed English city after WWII?

19.01.2022 Have you noticed the change of season? Nyoongar season, that is? We're in Djeran (April/May). As you travel around the Perth area, you may notice the red 'rust'... and seed cones forming on the male and female sheoaks (Allocasuarina fraseriana). Banksias start to display their flowers, ensuring that there are nectar food sources for many small mammals and birds. Traditionally, foods at this time of year included the zamia seeds that had been collected and stored for treatment during the previous season. The root bulbs of the yanget (Bullrushes),fresh water fish, frogs and turtles were also common foods. As the season progresses, the nights will become cooler and damp. The onset of cool and rainy days meant that traditional mia mias (houses or shelters) were repaired and updated to make sure they were waterproofed and facing in the right direction in readiness for the deep wintery months to come. See more

19.01.2022 Great exhibition coming up at Museum of Perth!

19.01.2022 Photos from the History Council AGM at the State Library of WA on Wednesday 9 September 2020 showing Jenny Gregory giving the Presidents Report, Andrea Gaynor giving her brilliant Annual Lecture and our new President Deborah Gare proposing the vote of thanks.

19.01.2022 The Mask has a history

18.01.2022 a remarkable story as archaeologists exhume remains in a lost graveyard next to the old East Perth Cemetery

18.01.2022 A muddled bill creates a confused response, so the heated and divisive saga continues, with the Senate Committee due to report on the bill by 28 September.

18.01.2022 This stunning heritage place, Melbourne's Royal Exhibition Building, stands as a monument to a previous pandemic, when it became a hospital for victims of the Spanish Flu of 1919.

16.01.2022 More historic cinemas, this time in Cuba

16.01.2022 A 'letter to the editor' by our graduate, Helen Brash, West Australian, 23 June, 2020. Like all historians, she has mastered critical evaluation, irony, and self-reflection.

16.01.2022 Excellent news. Community activism saves Sydneys iconic Powerhouse Museum in heritage buildings in Ultimo!

15.01.2022 Pleased to read this - but theres still a long way to go

15.01.2022 A fascinating profile of the woman behind FD Roosevelts New Deal in the Depression.

14.01.2022 How the British Museum is responding to the issue of 'stolen' objects through labelling

14.01.2022 AN INQUISITIVE BOY IN SHORT PANTS Photographer Stuart Gore left school at fourteen. He got a job as an office boy and saved five shillings for his first camera.... A second hand 00 Primo (the predecessor of the box Brownie). From the moment Stuart developed his first film with a candle red lamp, he was "hooked". Then a local bookseller - "a nice old bloke with gold-rimmed spectacles" - had an enormous number of back numbers of a book called 'Photography in Focus', which he offered to Stuart for a tuppence each. These fuelled young Stuart's passion all the more and photography became his whole life. An inquisitive boy in short pants with a 00 Primo, began hanging around the photographic studios of the likes of Nixon, Orloff and Lang in Fremantle. Eventually he was invited inside to learn more. In 1923, after a short time in England, Stuart opened his own little photography establishment in Market Street Fremantle. An eighteen-year-old with only a rough idea of what to do in business but knowing that he just wanted to do photography of any sort. Stuart went on to become one of WA's first aerial photographers and was a foundation member of the Professional Photographers Association of Australia. He was an official war photographer during World World II and a regular contributor to the West Australian. Listen to an interview with Stuart Gore from the State Library's Oral History collection here https://bit.ly/37WnNdo and enjoy this selection of his wonderful images from across WA. ABC Perth The West Australian PerthNow Images of Western Australian History History Council of Western Australia Familyhistory WA - FHWA PCP - Perth Centre for Photography

14.01.2022 Plans for the development of Perth Girls School and East Perth Power Station.

13.01.2022 This is a real worry. With the support of South Aust Senators the Higher Ed Bill, now in committee of inquiry, may get through.

13.01.2022 Pleased to read this - but there's still a long way to go

12.01.2022 Western Australian History Foundation Grants 2020 announced: CWA Rocky Gully Preserving Australias World War II Heritage: Rocky Gully Soldier Settlement roadside interpretive signage Fremantle History Society Digitising Deck Chair Theatre Archives Geraldton Libraries Local History Collection Local history education pack for the Year 3 curriculum... Margaret River Independent School Nyindamurra Kitchen Gardens: Living history in southwest WA through construction of four gardens indigenous edible plants; kitchen plants that Ellensbrook homestead may have used in the colonial period; a 1920s group settlement kitchen garden; and a contemporary water-wise kitchen garden Port Hedland Library Digitising historical photographic records in the collection Shane Burke et al (Notre Dame & UWA) Digitising King Georges Sound WAs first British settlement through primary sources held in NSW Archives & Records 1826-1831 See more

12.01.2022 The fabulous cinemas of India, now in sad decline.

12.01.2022 HAVE YOUR SAY - Australia needs more History graduates! Federal Govt plans to increase the cost of each university History unit to $14,500. Urge Federal MPs to reject the bill and make a submission to . Details at https://www.dese.gov.au//job-ready-graduates-package-draft

12.01.2022 And therell be more to come as Prof Jenny Hocking and others plough through thousands of newly released letters between the Queens representative in Australia Gov General Sir John Kerr and the Palace, in the lead up to the 1975 dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.

12.01.2022 Lands Minister Ben Wyatt has confirmed the sale of the former Fremantle Technical College site to leading Western Australian tourism company, Prendiville Group. Read the media statement at https://mediastatements.wa.gov.au//Leading-hospitality-gro #fremantle

11.01.2022 On this Facebook page a number of people have expressed concern about changes to cemeteries. This article is not strictly 'history', but it does reveal changing attitudes to cemeteries over time, and is an interesting discussion of what the future might hold.

11.01.2022 This is a revelation.

10.01.2022 Fabulous Retro Maps from State Records Office

10.01.2022 Next Rottnest swim coming up on 21 Feb 2021. After a couple of swims after von Dincklage's effort (below), including by Lesley Cherriman in 1969, it became an organised annual event in 1991 with hundreds taking up the challenge of swimming the 19.7km from Cottesloe to Rottnest Island each year.

09.01.2022 Fabulous initiative

09.01.2022 This will be a terrific unit!

09.01.2022 Tyrown Waigana (@crawlincrocodile), a Perth based artist and designer, has been named as this year’s winner of the prestigious National NAIDOC Poster Competitio...n. . NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia each July to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. NAIDOC is celebrated not only in Indigenous communities, but by Australians from all walks of life. The week is a great opportunity to participate in a range of activities and to support your local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community. . NAIDOC originally stood for ‘National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee’. This committee was once responsible for organising national activities during NAIDOC Week and its acronym has since become the name of the week itself. . National NAIDOC Week 2020 celebrations will be held from the 8-15 November! The November dates follow the decision by the National NAIDOC Committee (NNC) to postpone NAIDOC Week from the original July dates due to the impacts and uncertainty from the escalating Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic across our communities and cities. . Have a look on naidoc.org.au for more information and activities near you. . @naidocweek . . . . #NAIDOC #NAIDOC2020 #blak #alwayswasalwayswillbe See more

08.01.2022 For all those interested in their family history. Who knows what you will find?

07.01.2022 The wonderful and formidable Assoc. Prof. Andrea Gaynor @enviro_history presents the @WAHistccl annual lecture at the History Council WA AGM - what is radical remembering in the environmental humanities, how does environmental history help us understand our current moment. History at UWA State Library of Western Australia Museum of Freedom and Tolerance The Recording will soon be on the website!

07.01.2022 Finding humour in tragedy at the expense of women in early films

06.01.2022 interesting possibility

06.01.2022 Important history that will change most people's understanding of the rivers of Australia.

06.01.2022 And there'll be more to come as Prof Jenny Hocking and others plough through thousands of newly released letters between the Queen's representative in Australia Gov General Sir John Kerr and the Palace, in the lead up to the 1975 dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.

05.01.2022 Listen in on fascinating online lecture from Stan Grant 'Coronovirus at the End of History'

04.01.2022 The recent destruction of Juukan Gorge in the Western Australian Pilbara was not a one-off.

04.01.2022 A letter to the editor by our graduate, Helen Brash, West Australian, 23 June, 2020. Like all historians, she has mastered critical evaluation, irony, and self-reflection.

03.01.2022 The recent destruction of Juukan Gorge in the Western Australian Pilbara was not a 'one-off'.

03.01.2022 Listen in on fascinating online lecture from Stan Grant Coronovirus at the End of History

02.01.2022 And now for something entirely different - the wonderful illuminated manuscripts created by mediaeval and renaissance monks.

02.01.2022 A GRAND GESTURE In 1914, Mr J.T. Ruttle of the Perkolilli Station, offered the use of Lake Perkolilli for a motor gymkhana, to the Goldfields Motor Club. The... lake, seven miles out of Kanowna, was a combination of terracotta clay, two miles across, as hard and flat as a billiard table. A perfect surface on which to race "being almost impossible to slide or skid." The offer was quickly accepted and details for a grand motor picnic on Lake Perkolilli, were discussed at a well-attended club meeting at the Criterion Hotel. The unique event on May 31 would include races for cars, motor cycles and side cars, speed tests and numerous novelties of an exciting and humorous nature. A week before the meet, a working bee set out from the club to the Lake, to lay and mark out the courses. The event was advertised in the Kalgoorlie Miner with the promise of a huge program of "thrilling speed events". On the day, the road to the lake from Kalgoorlie and Kanowna presented rather an unusual sight - clouds of dust dotted at fairly regular intervals when viewed at a distance. There were about 38 cars present on the lake and about 300 people in all A great number of them coming in sulkies and on bicycles. Everyone in the best of spirits. The racing was of "an exciting character", and "some very fast times were put up as a consequence of daring riding round the circular course, which measured one and three-quarter miles". Laps being done by the 7 hp Indian and 6 hp Henderson, at the speed of over a mile a minute. There were only minor mishaps a dislocated wrist in a fall, a seized piston preventing one machine from racing and a lost silencer off a Douglas Motor Cycle (reported in the 'lost and found' section of the Kalgoorlie Miner a few days later). The day was "voted by all the fair sex present" (about 150 in all) as the best day’s outing ever spent on the fields, and there was "no lack of lady passengers anxious to take a seat in the racing cars". Throughout the 1920's and 30's, Lake Perkolilli, became known as one of the best natural race tracks in the world. Thousands of motor racing enthusiasts raced around its circuit to loud applause. Sadly World War II put an end to the legendary races as fuel and men became scarce. Note - This commentary has been sourced from articles appearing in WA newspapers at the time using the magic of Trove. It provides an insight into the event at the time but is not intended to be a definitive history. Take a moment to enjoy these images from the State Library's collection... RAC WA ABC Goldfields-Esperance Triple M Goldfields Kalgoorlie Miner Motor Museum of Western Australia Western Australia WA Sporting Car Club Vintage Sports Car Club of WA Wanneroo Raceway Motorsport Australia Australia's Golden Outback Motor Racing Australia - MRA Outback Family History History Council of Western Australia Red Dust Revival 2019 at Lake Perkolilli

01.01.2022 Sad news of the passing of Fremantle history stalwart. Ron Davidson.

01.01.2022 Call for Nominations - Margaret Medcalf Award 2020 The Margaret Medcalf Award recognises excellence in referencing and research in the use of State Archives held by the State Records Office of Western Australia (SRO). The Award honours Miss Margaret Medcalf OAM, Western Australias second State Archivist, for her valuable contribution to the development of archives in Western Australia. The winner of this Award receives a cash prize of $1000, or shares this prize if there is... more than one winner. Works nominated must demonstrate the use and accurate referencing of State Archives. Any work completed or published in 2019 is eligible to be submitted for nomination, and anyone, including the author of the work, may submit a nomination. Nominated works need not be published, may be fiction or non-fiction, and in any media. Electronic versions of publications are encouraged for judging processes. To submit a nominated work please complete a 2020 Margaret Medcalf Award Nomination Form (fillable in most browsers) and email it along with an online link to the work, to [email protected]. If the work is only in print form, please advise when nominating. The judging criteria for the Award are: Level of use of the State Archives Collection; Proficient and consistent use of referencing; Level of contribution to knowledge (historical, cultural, heritage, etc.); Original use of the State Archives Collection; Presentation. For further details including more information about the judging criteria for the Award, see http://www.sro.wa.gov.au/events/margaret-medcalf-award or contact [email protected]. Nominations for the 2020 Margaret Medcalf Award should be addressed to the Director State Records, State Records Office of WA, email [email protected], by 4pm Friday 31 July 2020.