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Name: Making Public Histories: Thinking about the weather heatwaves and history in twentieth century Australia
Start: 2025-11-27T17:00:00+11:00
End: 2025-11-27T18:30:00+11:00
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Looking back on the Swinging Sixties

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What comes to mind when we think about the ‘Swinging Sixties’? Is it miniskirts and pop music, street protest, or the Pill? Do we remember rebellious youth and ‘the generation gap’, or think nostalgically of a time of full employment, buoyant wages, and high rates of home ownership? In truth the sixties was about all […]

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27 November at 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Making Public Histories: Thinking about the weather heatwaves and history in twentieth century Australia

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Heatwaves are forgotten killers as deaths occur silently, in homes and institutions. In urban and temperate areas heatwaves evaporate from our memory, erased by the drama of fire, flood and storm. Environmental historians recognise the importance of climate as not simply a “backdrop against which history is played out” but an active force in Australian […]

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