Material Histories

The next installment in the seminar series from Australian Catholic University and Old Treasury! ‘Material Histories’ presents new scholarship from a wide range of speakers, all united by their passion for objects!   Sarah Hayes: Toileting early Melbourne: The political landscape and lived reality of chamber pots, cesspits and night pans What made Smellbourne so […]

The next installment in the seminar series from Australian Catholic University and Old Treasury! ‘Material Histories’ presents new scholarship from a wide range of speakers, all united by their passion for objects!   Deborah Tout-Smith: Wartime in Melbourne’s Exhibition Building “We would have been better off in tents”, recalled Alan Walton, RAAF, based at Melbourne’s […]