This week is #ITPAwarenessWeek, where we help to raise awareness for patients living with the rare blood autoimmune disease #ImmuneThrombocytopenia or ITP. A rare disease where the body’s immune system […]
Historian Joan Beaumont’s books Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War (2013) and Australia’s Great Depression (2022) offer profound reinterpretations of those pivotal events of the early twentieth century. In conversation with Alistair Thomson […]
We now expect childhood to be a time of play and learning, but that is a relatively recent development. In the past, many children were expected to work for their […]
20 October 2023 marks the 6th International Mastocytosis and Mast Cell Diseases Awareness Day. This year over 100 landmarks and venues across Australia will light up purple around Awareness Day […]
From around 1966, chic discothèques such as the Thumpin’ Tum, Bertie’s and the Biting Eye catered to Melbourne teens and twenty-somethings keen to experience the swinging sixties. This talk explores […]
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 […]
How do museums create exhibitions about histories? What happens behind the scenes? And what really is the role of an exhibition as a form of history ‘made public’? Making history […]
World Encephalitis Day (Thursday, 22nd of February 2024) is part of Encephalitis International’s ongoing mission to raise awareness of the devastating neurological condition known as encephalitis. Despite affecting more than […]
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 […]
To acknowledge the ASEAN Summit taking place in Melbourne from the 4 - 6 March 2024, the Premier has asked that buildings be lit in ASEAN Red, ASEAN Yellow, Prime […]
