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SUMMARY:In Conversation with Matt Golding\, Political Cartoonist of the Year
DESCRIPTION:Join Political Cartoonist of the Year Matt Golding and last year’s winner Megan Herbert as they discuss Behind the Lines 2025 with the exhibition curator Matthew Jones. \nBoth hailing from Melbourne (there must be something in the water)\, Matt Golding currently draws political cartoons for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. A second-time winner of this award\, he is also a Walkley Award-winner and has received multiple Stanley Awards from his peers at the Australian Cartoonists Association. Megan Herbert is a cartoonist\, illustrator\, and writer whose work appears in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. 2024 was her first time being Political Cartoonist of the Year. Matt and Megan will reflect on what being Political Cartoonist of the Year means\, and how they work to distil complex ideas into short\, witty cartoons. \nThis talk is presented as part of the exhibition\, ‘Behind the Lines 2025: Are we Rolling’ on display at the Old Treasury Building from 2 March to 3 May 2026. \n‘Behind the Lines’ is a travelling exhibition developed by the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House\, and is proudly supported by the National Collecting Institutions Touring and Outreach program\, an Australian Government program aiming to improve access to the national collections for all Australians.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/in-conversation-with-matt-golding-political-cartoonist-of-the-year/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Free
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SUMMARY:Making Public Histories: Women and the criminal justice system in Australia
DESCRIPTION:Women were outsiders in the criminal justice system for most of the nineteenth century. Unable to practice law\, sit on juries or serve in the police force\, they were subject to the operation of a masculine legal system. But this did not mean that they were without agency. Through the lives of three very different women\, this seminar explores women’s interactions with an evolving criminal justice system\, struggling to come to terms with new (and assertive) women as citizens. \nSarah Conquest was a working-class woman from inner Melbourne who engaged extensively with Melbourne’s Court system in the early twentieth century. Sarah navigated the Melbourne Police Courts in a wide variety of ways from the 1890s to the 1920s\, as witness\, as accused\, in an attempted prosecution\, in maintenance claims against her separated husband and for the state support of her two children. Later\, she was an inevitable presence as her younger son became entrenched in the criminal justice system. Sarah’s experiences suggest that working class women were not only the subject of state intervention\, but endeavoured — with varying success — to employ the Court system to their own advantage. \nMary Fortune was a pioneering crime writer in Australia\, and one of the first women to write police procedurals world-wide. Because she used the pseudonyms Waif Wander and W. W. her substantial audience did not know her identity–with good reason. She had committed bigamy when she married a policeman\, and her son George was a career criminal. That did not stop her earning a living with goldfields memoir\, female-centric journalism and of course genre\, for she survived as a freelance writer for over forty years in Melbourne. While George robbed banks and cracked safes\, his mother considered questions of reform and recidivism in her crimewriting. This contradictory and vital pair raise questions of gender roles\, crime and punishment\, and how the unconventional can be so easily erased from history. \nFanny Kate Boadicea Cocks was an unmarried\, 40-year-old South Australian woman who in 1915 became the first policewoman in the British Empire employed on the same salary as men\, and with the same powers of arrest. A strict Methodist and teetotaller who loved to shop\, Cocks walked the streets with a five-foot cane\, barking “Three feet apart!” at young couples caught canoodling in the Adelaide parklands. When she wasn’t rescuing young women from opium dens and finding jobs for wayward youths\, she was single-handedly cracking cases\, from drugs being smuggled aboard interstate coffin boats\, to the suspicious poisoning of children in a country town. Cocks’ work was so groundbreaking that it was reportedly copied by the New York Police Department and hailed as world’s best practice by the League of Nations. But despite earning an MBE and enjoying almost unrivalled renown in early 20th century Adelaide\, she has joined many once-prominent women in becoming lost to popular history. \nOur speakers: \nDr Jennifer Anderson is a managing lawyer at Women’s Legal Service Victoria. Her PhD examined the creation of the Children’s Court jurisdiction in Victoria in the early twentieth century. Her research explores the experiences of children and women in the early Victorian criminal justice and social welfare systems. \nLucy Sussex is an Honorary Fellow at La Trobe University. Her award-winning fiction includes novels and five short story collections. She has examined crime fiction’s origins in: Women Writers and Detectives in the Nineteenth Century (2012); Blockbuster (2015); and with Megan Brown\, Outrageous Fortunes (2025)\, about Mary and George Fortune. \nDr Lainie Anderson OAM is a writer whose 35-year career in journalism and public relations includes 17 years as a columnist with Adelaide’s Sunday Mail as well as stints at the Herald Sun and London’s The Times. In 2024\, Lainie completed a PhD with the University of South Australia\, researching the life of Kate Cocks\, the inspiration behind her best-selling historical cosy crime\, The Death of Dora Black. Lainie is vice-president of the History Council of South Australia\, board trustee with the History Trust of South Australia and a South Australian representative on the Federation of Australian Historical Societies. \nThe seminar is part of an ongoing series\, Making Public Histories\, that is offered jointly by the Monash University History Program\, the History Council of Victoria and the Old Treasury Building. Each seminar aims to explore issues and approaches in making public histories. The seminars are open\, free of charge\, to anyone interested in the creation and impact of history in contemporary society. \nWe thank the series sponsors\, Monash University Publishing\, the Monash University History Program and the Old Treasury Building.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/making-public-histories-women-and-the-criminal-justice-system-in-australia/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Free,Making Public Histories
ORGANIZER;CN="History Council Victoria":MAILTO:info@historycouncilvic.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20260312T160000
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SUMMARY:Media Literacy and Political Cartoons in the classroom (for Educators)
DESCRIPTION:The Museum of Australian Democracy is excited to work with The Old Treasury Building to present an online Teacher Professional Development: Media Literacy and Political Cartoons in the classroom. \nThis online session will provide tips and resources to help you use political cartoons in the classroom to build students’ media literacy skills. Join discussions about how to analyse cartoons with students\, and how you can work with students to create their own cartoons as a way to use their voice on issues important to them. With special guest Fiona Katauskas. \nBe prepared for an interactive session with activities to spark your thinking and discussions with other educators. Book online to secure your spot. \nThe Behind the Lines travelling exhibition is on at the Old Treasury Building from 2 March 2026 to 3 May 2026. \n‘Behind the Lines’ is a travelling exhibition developed by the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House\, and is proudly supported by the National Collecting Institutions Touring and Outreach program\, an Australian Government program aiming to improve access to the national collections for all Australians.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/media-literacy-and-political-cartoons-in-the-classroom-for-educators/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Old Treasury Building":MAILTO:bookings@otb.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20260220T130000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20260220T140000
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SUMMARY:Material Histories: Cuttings\, Combings\, Fettlings and Flock: Fashionable Consumption and Australian Wool ‘Waste’
DESCRIPTION:We live surrounded by material things. Some are mundane and utilitarian\, others exotic objects of desire\, but all our belongings have something to say about who we are and how we live. Objects reflect both culture and history. Individually and collectively\, they shape our lives\, link us to others and connect us to the past. Yet objects are often strangely absent from accounts of past lives. This seminar series aims to unpack some of the stories that objects can tell about the present and about the past.  We also hope to provide a forum for discussion for those of us interested in material histories. We aim to cast the net widely\, with no limitations on either time or space. \n  \nAustralia’s wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century\, spurring clothing industries globally and driving fashionable consumption. Yet wool processing and clothes manufacturing also generated waste – products like cuttings\, combings\, fettlings and flock. Salvaged then sold to waste merchants\, these materials had a second life. This paper explores fashion and its resulting waste by drawing together the mail order catalogues produced by the Melbourne department store Foy & Gibson and the invoices it issued for the wool waste leaving its mills and clothing factories. It considers the value of these waste products in their second life. \nSpeaker: Dr Lorinda Cramer is a lecturer in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at Deakin University. Her work explores the worn and material histories of Australian wool\, the gendered dimensions of dress and textiles\, and historical examples of sustainable fashion and waste in museum collections. \nMaterial Histories is presented by Old Treasury Building in partnership with Deakin University and Australian Catholic University. \n  \n‘Cuttings\, Combings\, Fettlings and Flock: Fashionable Consumption and Australian Wool ‘Waste’’ is presented as part of the PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival’s Independent Programme.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/cuttings-combings-fettlings-and-flock/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Free,Material Histories
ORGANIZER;CN="Old Treasury Building":MAILTO:bookings@otb.org.au
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DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20251127T183000
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SUMMARY:Making Public Histories: Thinking about the weather heatwaves and history in twentieth century Australia
DESCRIPTION: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.\nEnvironmental historians recognise the importance of climate as not simply a “backdrop against which history is played out” but an active force in Australian life. Through hospital records\, diaries and press reports\, we examine daily life in the mid-twentieth century as heatwaves unfold\, finding that decisions about sleep\, food\, housing\, clothing and social interaction\, as well as professional and domestic labour\, were disrupted and negotiated.\nBy uncovering the everyday practices by which people negotiate weather\, in urban\, regional and remote areas\, we reveal how heatwaves have been crucial in shaping the Australian idea and experience of climate. \nJoin us for three expert speakers and a topical panel discussion. \nSpeakers\nMANDY PAUL- ‘Fearful heat’: the January 1939 heatwave in Tarntanya/Adelaide\nMandy is a public historian and museum professional whose current research interests include the history of heatwaves in Tarntanya/Adelaide\, and the power of museum collections. She is Head of Collections at the History Trust of South Australia and a visiting Research Fellow in the School of Humanities at the University of Adelaide. \nROCHELLE SCHOFF- Thermometer conscious: keeping an eye on the mercury in everyday life\nRochelle is a graduate researcher in environmental history in the Department of Archaeology and History\, La Trobe University. Her research focuses on drought and extreme weather and considers relationships between people and climate across regional southeastern Australia during the twentieth century. \nREBECCA JONES- Living with heat in arid Australia\nRebecca is an environmental historian with particular interest in Australian climate\, weather\, rural health and adaptation. She worked as a public historian in Victoria and at Monash University and the Australian National University. She is the author of Slow Catastrophes: Living with drought in Australia (Monash University Publishing). \nThe seminar is part of an ongoing series\, Making Public Histories\, that is offered jointly by the Monash University History Program\, the History Council of Victoria and the Old Treasury Building. Each seminar aims to explore issues and approaches in making public histories. The seminars are open\, free of charge\, to anyone interested in the creation and impact of history in contemporary society. \nWe thank the series sponsors\, Monash University Publishing\, the Monash University History Program and the Old Treasury Building.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/making-public-histories-thinking-about-the-weather-heatwaves-and-history-in-twentieth-century-australia/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Free,Making Public Histories
ORGANIZER;CN="History Council Victoria":MAILTO:info@historycouncilvic.org.au
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20251120T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20251120T120000
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SUMMARY:Looking back on the Swinging Sixties
DESCRIPTION: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 of these things. Join Margaret Anderson as she explores life in the 1960s and asks did Victoria really ‘swing’ in the 1960s? \nMargaret Anderson is the historian director of the Old Treasury Building. \nPresented as part of the ‘Swinging Sixties’ exhibition from Old Treasury Building.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/looking-back-on-the-swinging-sixties/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Old Treasury Building":MAILTO:bookings@otb.org.au
GEO:-25.274398;133.775136
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20251022T130000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20251022T140000
DTSTAMP:20260418T195526
CREATED:20250917T014357Z
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SUMMARY:Consuming Fashion: Fibres and Fun in the 1960s
DESCRIPTION:The next installment in the seminar series from Deakin University\, Australian Catholic University and Old Treasury! ‘Material Histories’ presents new scholarship from a wide range of speakers\, all united by their passion for objects! \nThe 1960s is a period defined by change. An era of unprecedented growth in youth culture and synthetic fibres saw the birth of two fashion icons: Barbie and Woolmark. During this online talk event\, we’ll delve into the history and impact of these two fashion giants. \nFirst Speaker\nPlaying with Barbie: Youth fashion and child’s play in the 1960s\nwith Dr Pauling Hastings\nMattel’s Barbie doll launched in Australia in 1964\, a time of unprecedented growth in the youth fashion market. Dubbed “The Teenage Fashion Model Doll\,” Barbie modelled teenage lived experience and aspirations to children\, challenging traditional images of postwar femininity and motherhood. For Barbie\, fashion enabled possibility. Through her expanding fashionable wardrobe\, Barbie reinforced new ideas on sartorial style\, fun and alternative women’s roles.\nDr Pauline Hastings is a Professional Historian and independent scholar. Her work on Australia’s postwar manufacturing\, marketing and consumption of fashion and textiles connects the material to broader histories of society\, culture and the economy. \nSecond Speaker\nFashioning Australian wool: the Wool Fashion Awards and Woolmark in Australia’s 1960s\nwith Dr Lorinda Cramer\nAustralian wool stood a fashion crossroads in the 1960s. On the one hand\, exciting new synthetic fibres linked with modernity and youth culture had electrified the clothing market. On the other\, initiatives directly focused on regaining wool’s footing strengthened. This included the Wool Fashion Awards that had launched the previous decade and the introduction of the Woolmark symbol in Australia in 1966. Both extended wool’s appeal for Australian consumers by creating a glamorous\, fashionable and high-quality image for the natural fibre.\nDr Lorinda Cramer is a lecturer in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at Deakin University. Her work explores the worn and material histories of Australian wool\, the gendered dimensions of dress and textiles\, and historical examples of sustainable fashion and waste in museum collections. \nMaterial Histories is presented by Old Treasury Building in partnership with Deakin University and Australian Catholic University. \n‘Consuming Fashion: Fibres and Fun in the 1960s’ is presented as part of Melbourne Fashion Week.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/consuming-fashion-fibres-and-fun-in-the-1960s/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Free,Material Histories
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20251002T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20251002T120000
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SUMMARY:The Great Australian Dream- A Home of our Own
DESCRIPTION:Home ownership is once again a hot political issue. As house prices rose inexorably in the early twenty first century\, many young people found themselves locked out of home ownership. And yet the desire to own ‘a home of our own’ is still as strong as ever. Join Margaret Anderson as she reflects on the highs and lows of home building in Victoria\, from boarded-up streets in the Great Depression\, through the acute shortages of the post-war years\, to the peak of home ownership during the ‘long boom’ of the 1960s. We also consider how homes have changed over the years\, from the outside laundry and toilet to the ensuite bathroom and more. Expectations in 2025 are very far from those of 1925. \nMargaret Anderson is the historian director of the Old Treasury Building. \nPresented as part of the ‘Belongings: Objects and Family Life‘ online exhibition from Old Treasury Building.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/the-great-australian-dream-a-home-of-our-own/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Old Treasury Building":MAILTO:bookings@otb.org.au
GEO:-25.274398;133.775136
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250925T170000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250925T183000
DTSTAMP:20260418T195526
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SUMMARY:Making Public Histories: Australian Fathering and Family Life: Learning Lessons from History
DESCRIPTION:Over the best part of a decade\, we’ve been researching the history of Australian fathering and family life\, from 1919 to the present day\, working alongside a team that’s also included John Murphy\, Johnny Bell and Mike Roper. Drawing upon hundreds of oral history interviews from several national collections\, as well as memoirs\, wartime letters and submissions to Royal Commissions and government inquiries\, we’ve explored how family life and fathering (and mothering) have been shaped by shifting structural forces and cultural expectations\, and how diverse Australian families have negotiated those expectations and forces in varying ways\, influenced by personal character and family circumstances (see our co-authored book\, Fathering: An Australian History\, MUP\, 2025). In this webinar we’ll each focus on an aspect of the research and reflect on lessons we’ve learnt from the past that might be useful for contemporary families and social policy. \nAl Thomson will introduce the project’s aims\, approaches and sources\, and note key findings about fathering and family life. \nKate Murphy will focus on the Royal Commission on Human Relationships (1974-77) and what we learnt from individual and institutional submissions about family life and fathering in the 1970s. \nJill Barnard will discuss how an oral history collection sheds light on the family lives of Forgotten Australians. \nThe seminar is part of an ongoing series\, Making Public Histories\, that is offered jointly by the Monash University History Program\, the History Council of Victoria and the Old Treasury Building. Each seminar aims to explore issues and approaches in making public histories. The seminars are open\, free of charge\, to anyone interested in the creation and impact of history in contemporary society. \nWe thank the series sponsors\, Monash University Publishing\, the Monash University History Program and the Old Treasury Building.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/making-public-histories-australian-fathering-and-family-life-learning-lessons-from-history/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Free,Making Public Histories
ORGANIZER;CN="History Council Victoria":MAILTO:info@historycouncilvic.org.au
GEO:-25.274398;133.775136
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250822T130000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250822T140000
DTSTAMP:20260418T195526
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SUMMARY:Colonial Tourism: Objects of Martindale Hall
DESCRIPTION:The next installment in the seminar series from Deakin University\, Australian Catholic University and Old Treasury! ‘Material Histories’ presents new scholarship from a wide range of speakers\, all united by their passion for objects! \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFirst Speaker:\nSpoils from ‘The Tour of the East’\n \nIn 1930\, the white colonials\, Jack Mortlock\, of Martindale Hall\, near Clare S.A.\, and his younger brother Ranson\, and their manager\, E. E. Scarfe\, made a three month ‘Tour of the East’\, travelling in Java\, Singapore\, Ceylon and India. We have been able to trace their journey\, creating a Time Layered Cultural map (TLC)\, drawing upon the movie they made of the trip\, diaries\, newspaper reports and itineraries. En route they collected souvenirs and artefacts\, which they displayed in Martindale Hall.\nThis paper will examine some of these souvenirs\, such as the Javanese lampshade\, the Sri Lankan masks and the Taj Mahal lamp\, drawing attention to the colonial power relations which pervaded them. \nProfessor Emerita Margaret Allen\, University of Adelaide has researched gendered histories\, and also transnational and postcolonial histories\, focussing upon India-Australia 1880-1940. In the ARC project\, ‘Beyond Empire transnational religious networks & liberal cosmopolitanisms’ she examined the emergence of faith-based cosmopolitanisms in the interstices of multi-faith\, multi-cultural and multi-racial connected webs around India in late colonial period. This paper emerges from ARC project\, ‘Slow digitisation\, community heritage and the objects of Martindale Hall.’ \n  \nSecond Speaker:\nJoe Timbery’s boomerang and the politics of 1938 \nThe Smoking Room at Jack Mortlock’s Martindale Hall\, an Italianate Georgian mansion in the Clare Valley SA\, displays some fifty Australian Aboriginal objects\, including shields\, spear throwers\, clubs and boomerangs. The artefacts and objects in the Hall’s opulent Smoking Room are portals to new stories that take us through\, in Delia Falconer’s words\, the ‘back door of history’. These new ways of looking at Martindale Hall seek to show the hidden material relationships of class and race that underpinned the wealthy lifestyles of its inhabitants.\nOne object is described as ‘an urban boomerang’ and was most likely purchased by Mortlock in Sydney in 1938. This ornately decorated boomerang was made by Joe Timbery a famous boomerang-maker and -thrower from the Aboriginal community of La Perouse\, Sydney. The designs and the object biography of this boomerang opens an unexpected window onto the modern political history of Australia in the twentieth century. \nProfessor Penelope Edmonds is Matthew Flinders Professor\, History\, Flinders University. She researches in 19th century British empire and setter colonialism in the Australian/Pacific region\, transnational and postcolonial histories\, heritage and museums. She brings a critical theory perspective to questions of colonialism\, race\, reconciliation and redress\, humanitarianism\, slavery and unfreedom in the Australian and Western Pacific region. She has broad industry and professional experience in the GLAM sector. On the Board of the Tasmania Museum and Art Gallery\, she was involved with the development and delivery of its landmark apology to Tasmanian Indigenous peoples in 2021. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaterial Histories is presented by Old Treasury Building in partnership with Deakin University and Australian Catholic University.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/colonial-tourism-objects-of-martindale-hall/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Free,Material Histories
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250723T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250723T120000
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SUMMARY:In Conversation with Megan Herbert\, Political Cartoonist of the Year
DESCRIPTION:Join ‘Behind the Lines 2024’ curator Matthew Jones and Political Cartoonist of the Year Megan Herbert as they explore the exhibition and Megan’s work. \nMegan Herbert is a cartoonist\, illustrator\, and writer whose work appears in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Her cartoons in ‘Behind the Lines’ reference climate change\, the cost of living\, the housing crisis and more in her signature style. \nPresented as part of the exhibition\, ‘Behind the Lines 2024: No Guts\, No Glory’ on display at the Old Treasury Building from 21 July to 28 August 2025. \n‘Behind the Lines’ is a travelling exhibition developed by the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House\, proudly supported by the National Collecting Institutions Touring and Outreach program\, an Australian Government program aiming to improve access to the national collections for all Australians.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/in-conversation-with-megan-herbert-political-cartoonist-of-the-year/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Free
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250529T170000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250529T183000
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SUMMARY:Making Public Histories: Cold War Spies in Australia
DESCRIPTION:While the idea of Cold War-era spies often evokes cliched images of James Bond or John La Carré\, the reality of spies and surveillance in Cold War Australia was far stranger and far more interesting than any spy novel. Historians working with restricted or highly redacted material have increasingly shed light on these real life spy stories\, from installing bugs in apartment ceilings to rendezvous in cemeteries and draining a beer at the pub opposite the Soviet embassy. In this seminar\, two of Australia’s foremost intelligence historians will discuss espionage and counter-espionage in Australia during the Cold War\, share some of the fascinating stories they’ve encountered in their research\, and reflect on the unique challenges of creating history based on intelligence records. \nDr Ebony Nilsson is a lecturer in History at the Australian Catholic University. She is a social historian whose work specialises in migrant communities’ experiences of politics and surveillance during the Cold War. Her first book\, Displaced Comrades: Politics and Surveillance in the Lives of Soviet Refugees in the West (Bloomsbury\, 2023) explores the transnational lives and experiences of Soviet ‘Displaced Persons’ who were resettled in Australia from Europe and China during the early Cold War and drew the attention of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation with their political engagement. Elsewhere\, she has published on the Sydney Russian community\, migrants who returned to the Soviet Union\, and the surveillance of migrants in relation to the Petrov Affair. \nDr Rhys Crawley Dr Rhys Crawley is a senior lecturer in history at UNSW Canberra\, and the author of the Official History of Australian Operations in Afghanistan\, 2005-2010. His research focuses on military and intelligence history\, with a particular emphasis on Australian military history\, the war in Afghanistan\, special operations\, First World War operational history\, military logistics\, espionage\, and domestic security intelligence. His books include Climax at Gallipoli: The Failure of the August Offensive (2014)\, The Secret Cold War: The Official History of ASIO\, 1975-1989 (2016)\, Intelligence and the Function of Government (2018)\, Gallipoli: New Perspectives on the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force 1915-16 (2018)\, and The Long Search for Peace: Observer Missions and Beyond\, 1947-2006 (2019). \nThe seminar is part of an ongoing series\, Making Public Histories\, that is offered jointly by the Monash University History Program\, the History Council of Victoria and the Old Treasury Building. Each seminar aims to explore issues and approaches in making public histories. The seminars are open\, free of charge\, to anyone interested in the creation and impact of history in contemporary society. \nWe thank the series sponsors\, Monash University Publishing\, the Monash University History Program and the Old Treasury Building.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/making-public-histories-cold-war-spies-in-australia/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Free,Making Public Histories
ORGANIZER;CN="History Council Victoria":MAILTO:info@historycouncilvic.org.au
GEO:-25.274398;133.775136
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250516T130000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250516T140000
DTSTAMP:20260418T195526
CREATED:20250128T043050Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250128T043050Z
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SUMMARY:Objects of Connection: The Overland Telegraph
DESCRIPTION:The next installment in the seminar series from Deakin University\, Australian Catholic University and Old Treasury! ‘Material Histories’ presents new scholarship from a wide range of speakers\, all united by their passion for objects! \nIn 2022\, a virtual exhibition was launched to mark 150 years of the Overland Telegraph Line. A collaboration between Australian Catholic University\, the History Trust of South Australia\, the State Library of South Australia and the South Australian Museum\, the exhibition re-tells the Line’s significance through a more inclusive cultural narrative\, beyond its place in European-centred colonial history. In particular\, it seeks to emphasise First Nations perspectives on the Line’s paths through Aboriginal Country\, and highlights the vital role of other non-European actors in its construction. It reveals the Line’s important transcultural history – both as a tool of colonial expansion and as a complex zone of cross-cultural contact and exchange. The exhibition draws on the collections of three of South Australia’s cultural institutions\, and the re-interpretation of items of material culture is a key aspect of the exhibition’s approach. \n  \nSpeakers: \nMandy Paul is responsible for the management of the South Australian State History Collection. Understanding and sharing complex and contested histories has been a thread running through her career\, informing her work over three decades as a social history curator\, museum director and collections manager\, and as a consultant historian on native title claims. Mandy holds postgraduate qualifications in history and museum studies and has published widely in on Australian social history\, museology\, and native title.  Mandy is also a member of State Records Council and a Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Humanities at the University of Adelaide. \nAmanda Nettelbeck is a Professor of History at the University of Adelaide and the current Australia-Japan Foundation Visiting Professor in Australian Studies at the University of Tokyo (2024-25). Her fields of research include a focus on the application of colonial law to Indigenous people\, including through policing and the courts\, and the history and memory of Australia’s frontier wars. Her last book\, Indigenous Rights and Colonial Subjecthood (Cambridge University Press\, 2019) won the 2020 Australia & New Zealand Law & History Society legal history prize. She is a member of the South Australian Libraries Board\, and is current chair of the Editorial Board for the journal Australian Historical Studies. \nMaterial Histories is presented by Old Treasury Building in partnership with Deakin University and Australian Catholic University.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/objects-of-connection-the-overland-telegraph/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Free,Material Histories
ORGANIZER;CN="Old Treasury Building":MAILTO:bookings@otb.org.au
GEO:-25.274398;133.775136
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250319T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250319T120000
DTSTAMP:20260418T195526
CREATED:20250102T010318Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250102T010318Z
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SUMMARY:The White Goods Revolution: How Machines Found a Place in our Homes
DESCRIPTION:Few of us can truly say that we enjoy housework\, despite the plethora of ‘labour-saving devices’ now found in most homes. Imagine then\, a time when almost all domestic tasks relied on muscle power and elbow grease alone. The lucky few employed domestic servants to do this work. (Of course\, the servants weren’t so lucky!) But from 1900 fewer women wanted work as servants and increasingly\, the housewife was left to her own devices. Enter ‘electric servants’— machinery designed to make cooking\, washing and cleaning easier. Although it would take many decades for most households to acquire these machines\, the ‘white goods revolution’ eventually reshaped domestic interiors\, while machines embedded themselves in our lives. Join Margaret Anderson as she reflects on the history of domestic work and considers the rise and rise of domestic appliances. \nPresented as part of the ‘Belongings: Objects and Family Life‘ exhibition on display at the Old Treasury Building until September 2025.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/the-white-goods-revolution-how-machines-found-a-place-in-our-homes/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Old Treasury Building":MAILTO:bookings@otb.org.au
GEO:-25.274398;133.775136
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250228T130000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250228T140000
DTSTAMP:20260418T195527
CREATED:20241202T224408Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250114T234024Z
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SUMMARY:The Fashion Cycle: From Retail to Reuse
DESCRIPTION:The next installment in the seminar series from Deakin University\, Australian Catholic University and Old Treasury! ‘Material Histories’ presents new scholarship from a wide range of speakers\, all united by their passion for objects! \nFirst speaker:\nAll the Latest Novelties: Modernity\, Luxury and Consumer Desire in Australia’s Nineteenth-century Arcades with Nicole Davis \nNineteenth-century arcades were marketed as dreamworlds\, where the desire for exclusive or exotic commodities could be indulged. They were curated spaces that aimed to have a specific mix of businesses\, including shops\, that offered diverse experiences and products to the consumer. In Australia\, through advertising\, displays and merchandising\, arcade retailers particularly emphasised goods\, including jewellery\, clothing\, and accessories\, that had connotations of luxury\, modernity\, and cosmopolitanism. These often linked with international locations\, trends\, and fashions\, to demonstrate the Australian colonies as places of progress\, sophistication\, and civility – where fashionable items could be attained just as they might in Britain\, Europe\, or North America. This presentation will look at some of the ways that businessowners created consumer desire for their products\, from the humble to the extraordinary. \nNicole Davis is an urban historian\, working in the museum and heritage sector\, with a particular interest in retail and business histories. Her PhD thesis focused on the social\, economic\, and architectural history of Australia’s nineteenth-century arcades and their place in the contemporary world. Her latest co-authored book is The Story of Melbourne’s Lanes: Essential but Unplanned. \n  \nSecond speaker:\nAlterations as evidence of garment life cycles: wedding dress 1875/1943 \nA wedding dress in the Henty Costume Collection at the Kew Historical Society\, which was made for Alice Henty when she married John Hindson in Melbourne in 1875\, was radically redesigned in 1943 when it was worn by three of her granddaughters at their weddings during WWII. This presentation will discuss the dress and its alterations and how such a well-provenanced item can provide evidence of life cycles of a garment that was treasured and reused across generations. \nDr Laura Jocic is a curator and historian with particular expertise in fashion and textiles. She completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne investigating dress in Australian colonial society and is interested in the materialities of surviving items of dress to elucidate the complex histories of garments and dress practices. \n  \nMaterial Histories is presented by Old Treasury Building in partnership with Deakin University and Australian Catholic University. \n‘The Fashion Cycle: From Retail to Reuse’ is presented as part of the PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival’s Independent Programme.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/the-fashion-cycle-from-retail-to-reuse/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Free,Material Histories
ORGANIZER;CN="Old Treasury Building":MAILTO:bookings@otb.org.au
GEO:-25.274398;133.775136
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20241121T170000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20241121T183000
DTSTAMP:20260418T195527
CREATED:20241105T233809Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241122T043010Z
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SUMMARY:Making Public Histories: Histories of Australian Childhood
DESCRIPTION:World Children’s Day\, celebrated on November 20 each year\, offers an opportunity to both look back on the history of childhood and of children’s rights and forward to the ways in which childhood is changing and child rights are contested. \nHow do historians investigate and recover the lives\, experiences and perspectives of children in the past? How have understandings and experiences of Australian childhood changed over time? And how and why have understandings of the rights\, roles and responsibilities of children changed? \nIn this Making Public Histories seminar\, three historians working at the cutting edge of research in this field will discuss histories of children and childhood in Australia. \nABOUT THE SPEAKERS:\nDr Isobelle Barrett Meyering is a historian of feminism\, the family and childhood. She is currently a Research Fellow in the Department of History and Archaeology at Macquarie University\, which she joined in 2018 after completing her PhD at UNSW. Isobelle is the author of Feminism and the Making of a Child Rights Revolution 1969-1979 (Melbourne University Press\, 2022)\, and her work has featured in a wide range of Australian history and gender studies journals. She was the David Mitchell Memorial Fellow at the State Library of New South Wales in 2019 and a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University’s Humanities Research Centre in 2022. Isobelle is currently working on a history of children’s rights in modern Australia and\, in December 2024\, she will commence a new project\, ‘Child Citizens: Young People and Australian Democracy since 1945’\, supported by an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. \nCatherine Gay is a historian and curator. She completed her PhD in October 2024 and was a Hansen Trust PhD Scholar in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her doctoral research examined the experiences of Aboriginal and settler girls in nineteenth-century Australia using girl-produced material culture. Her research has won several awards\, including the Australian Historical Association’s 2022 Jill Roe Prize and the 2024 SHAPS Fellow’s Essay Prize. \nDr Emily Gallagher is a historian and research editor at the National Centre of Biography at the Australian National University. Her PhD thesis was a history of the childhood imagination in Australia and won the Australian Historical Association’s Serle Award in 2024. Emily is currently working on a book for La Trobe University Press. \nThe seminar is part of an ongoing series\, Making Public Histories\, that is offered jointly by the Monash University History Program\, the History Council of Victoria and the Old Treasury Building. Each seminar aims to explore issues and approaches in making public histories. The seminars are open\, free of charge\, to anyone interested in the creation and impact of history in contemporary society. \nWe thank the series sponsors\, Monash University Publishing\, the Monash University History Program and the Old Treasury Building.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/making-public-histories-histories-of-australian-childhood/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Free,Making Public Histories
ORGANIZER;CN="History Council Victoria":MAILTO:info@historycouncilvic.org.au
GEO:-25.274398;133.775136
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20241101T130000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20241101T140000
DTSTAMP:20260418T195527
CREATED:20240930T015126Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240930T015126Z
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SUMMARY:Material Histories: Rediscovering ‘Lost’ Objects
DESCRIPTION:The next installment in the seminar series from Deakin University\, Australian Catholic University and Old Treasury! ‘Material Histories’ presents new scholarship from a wide range of speakers\, all united by their passion for objects! \nFirst speaker:\nBatavia and the personification of hope with Corioli Souter\n \nThis cordon pulle\, or jug\, is reconstructed from sherds collected from Batavia (1629)\, which was wrecked inshore from the reef on which it foundered. Decorated with distinctive cobalt blue rings and cordons around the neck\, these large\, spheroid vessels also have an apron of sprigged medallions on their bellies including masks\, rampart unicorns and lions along with the coat of arms of Dutch cities. These reconstructed sherds depict something quite different — the female allegory of Hope — which are reinterpreted with reference to the fragmentary nature of the archive in relation to Dutch women both in Batavia\, on the island of Java\, and aboard the fated vessel of the same name. Judith Gijsbertsz\, daughter of the ship’s predikant\, provides a new perspective to this iconic story. \nCorioli Souter is a curator\, archaeologist\, and head of the Department of Maritime Heritage at the Western Australian Museum (WAM) often working in collaboration with other state\, national\, international museums and collections; tertiary institutions; heritage agencies; community organisations and the private sector. \n  \nSecond speaker:\nTasmanian Aboriginal Kelp Water Containers with Gaye Sculthorpe  \nThis paper will discuss methods of provenance research relating to a long lost rikawa – kelp water container – collected by Bruni d’Entrecasteaux in 1792 – and rediscovered in 2019. It will highlight the importance of research collaboration and community engagement in this work and the issue of making museum documentation records easily accessible. A workshop organised in Paris in 2022 brought together three kelp containers which were studied using different methodologies and the results which have recently been published will be discussed. \nGaye Sculthorpe is a palawa woman from Tasmania\, currently working a Professor of Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at Deakin University. She has previously worked at Museums Victoria and more recently as Curator\, Oceania\, at the British Museum (2013-2022). She has as strong interest in early collections of Aboriginal materials distributed around the world and is currently working on a project about Aboriginal objects sent to the Great Exhibitions c.1851-1939. \n  \nMaterial Histories is presented by Old Treasury Building in partnership with Deakin University and Australian Catholic University.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/material-histories-rediscovering-lost-objects/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Free,Material Histories
ORGANIZER;CN="Old Treasury Building":MAILTO:bookings@otb.org.au
GEO:-25.274398;133.775136
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20241023T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20241023T120000
DTSTAMP:20260418T195527
CREATED:20240930T014745Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240930T014745Z
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SUMMARY:Old clothes and new looks: Lessons from the past
DESCRIPTION:A black papier-mâché sewing box\, now on display in the Old Treasury Building’s ‘Belongings’ exhibition\, would once have been both commonplace in and essential for many homes. This box and others like it – filled with needles and threads\, thimbles and scissors\, ribbons and buttons – helped women to create new looks from old clothes. Conscious of the pressing need in the present for more circular and sustainable fashion\, dress historian Lorinda Cramer explores how sewing boxes were used\, what could be achieved with the tools and materials they held – and\, indeed\, what lessons are offered from the past. \n‘Old Clothes and New Looks: Lessons from the Past’ is presented as part of Melbourne Fashion Week.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/old-clothes-and-new-looks-lessons-from-the-past/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Old Treasury Building":MAILTO:bookings@otb.org.au
GEO:-25.274398;133.775136
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20241009T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20241009T120000
DTSTAMP:20260418T195527
CREATED:20240828T023158Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240828T023158Z
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SUMMARY:‘Princess for a day’: the wedding dress in Victoria\, 1840-2024
DESCRIPTION:In elaborate white dresses\, with filmy veils\, happy brides smile at the world in countless photographs. But where did the many ‘traditions’ of the wedding day come from\, and did the bride always wear white? Join Margaret Anderson as she looks at the history of weddings and the wedding dress in Victoria\, with some surprising results. \nThis talk is presented as part of the Victorian Seniors Festival 2024.\nSee the full calendar of events here.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/princess-for-a-day-the-wedding-dress-in-victoria-1840-2024/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Old Treasury Building":MAILTO:bookings@otb.org.au
GEO:-25.274398;133.775136
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240926T170000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240926T183000
DTSTAMP:20260418T195527
CREATED:20240820T231631Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240820T231631Z
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SUMMARY:Making Public Histories: Oral History\, Migration\, Generations
DESCRIPTION:This panel brings together three esteemed speakers to share approaches to our theme of “Oral History\, Migration\, Generation”.\n\nAssociate Professor Francesco Ricatti is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at the Australian National University\, where he is also the Deputy Head of the School of Literature\, Languages and Linguistics. He is a former Deputy and Acting Director of the Monash Migration and Inclusion Centre\, and a former President of Oral History Victoria. His research focuses of migration history\, transcultural studies\, migrant/Indigenous relations\, and creative and participatory approaches to the study of multiethnic communities. He will speak on “Migrants’ oral histories: key challenges and innovative approaches”.\n\n\nDr Alexandra Dellios is a Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at the Australian National University. Her latest book is Heritage Making and Migrant Subjects in the Deindustrialising Region of the Latrobe Valley (Cambridge University Press\, 2022). She will speak on “Oral histories about migrant welfare scandals: the challenges of multicultural frames of remembrance”. \n  \nProfessor Tanya Evans is a Professor of History at Macquarie University in Sydney Australia. She directs the Centre for Applied History and is President of the International Federation of Public History. Her research interests include family history\, memory and life-stories\, public history\, oral history\, cultural heritage\, history and sport\, community\, local and regional history\, histories of charities and NGOs\, history and the media and history in tourism. She will speak on “Sharing Memory and Identity Across Generations: An Interdisciplinary Memory Conversation and Oral History Project”. \n  \n\nThe seminar is part of an ongoing series\, Making Public Histories\, that is offered jointly by the Monash University History Program\, the History Council of Victoria and the Old Treasury Building. Each seminar aims to explore issues and approaches in making public histories. The seminars are open\, free of charge\, to anyone interested in the creation and impact of history in contemporary society. \nWe thank the series sponsors\, Monash University Publishing\, the Monash University History Program and the Old Treasury Building.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/making-public-histories-oral-history-migration-generations/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Making Public Histories
ORGANIZER;CN="History Council Victoria":MAILTO:info@historycouncilvic.org.au
GEO:-25.274398;133.775136
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240913T130000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240913T140000
DTSTAMP:20260418T195527
CREATED:20240611T045742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240716T233919Z
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SUMMARY:Material Histories: Objects of Time
DESCRIPTION:The next installment in the seminar series from Deakin University\, Australian Catholic University and Old Treasury! ‘Material Histories’ presents new scholarship from a wide range of speakers\, all united by their passion for objects! \nFirst speaker:\nTurning Over Material Histories of the Sandglass\nwith Matthew Champion\nIn the early fourteenth century\, the sandglass made its debut as the most precise technology of time measurement in Europe to date. Almost immediately its impact was felt: cooks and courtiers\, rabbis and scientists\, accountants and artisans\, began to use sandglasses to time their activities\, their lives\, and to make their livings. Yet for an instrument of such importance\, the sandglass’s origins and its histories remain startlingly unclear. This paper sets out some first thoughts towards a material history of the sandglass and its importance to the history of temporalities. What can we learn from surviving objects and evidence of their use in multiple spaces\, genres\, and media? \nMatthew Champion is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Melbourne. He has published widely in the history of premodern temporalities and materiality\, including his 2017 Chicago monograph The Fullness of Time: Temporalities of the Fifteenth-Century Low Countries\, winner of the 2018 Gladstone Prize from the Royal Historical Society. His articles have appeared in Past & Present\, Speculum\, Sixteenth Century Journal and Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. He is a co-curator of the current exhibition Albrecht Dürer’s Material Renaissance (Arts West Gallery\, University of Melbourne). \nSecond speaker:\nPunctuality and Progress: Reflections on Clocks\, Time and History\nwith Graeme Davison\nProbably no invention has played a more significant part in the making of the modern world than the mechanical clock. I have long loved clocks and watches. I marvel at their intricate workmanship\, their delicate self-regulation and their humanoid qualities. From The Unforgiving Minute: How Australia Learned to tell the Time (1994) to My Grandfather’s Clock (2023) clocks and changing conceptions of measured time have shaped my vision of history as much as any human character. In this talk\, I will reflect on the histories of some clocks I have known either as museum objects\, such as the Powerhouse Museum’s Strasburg Clock\, or personal possessions\, such as my great-grandfather’s long case-clock. What can we learn from the clocks as material objects as distinct from the knowledge of their origins and provenance? Where does the mystique of the antiquarian end and the wisdom of the historian begin? \nGraeme Davison is Emeritus Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor of History at Monash University. He has written widely on Australian history\, heritage and public history where his publications include The Rise and Fall of Marvellous Melbourne\, The Use and Abuse of Australian History\, Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Changed our Cities\, City Dreamers: The Urban Imagination in Australia and Lost Relations: Fortunes of My Family in Australia’s Golden Age. He is a former chair of the Heritage Council of Victoria\, an advisor to the National Museum of Australia and co-editor of a history of the Powerhouse Museum. \nMaterial Histories is presented by Old Treasury Building in partnership with Deakin University and Australian Catholic University.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/material-histories-objects-of-time/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Free,Material Histories
ORGANIZER;CN="Old Treasury Building":MAILTO:bookings@otb.org.au
GEO:-25.274398;133.775136
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240719T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240719T120000
DTSTAMP:20260418T195527
CREATED:20240521T230022Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240523T030044Z
UID:10000118-1721386800-1721390400@www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au
SUMMARY:‘Good Price\, Reliable Recipes\, Great Photos’
DESCRIPTION:The Australian Women’s Weekly cookbooks and their influence on Australian food culture \nThe Australian Women’s Weekly’s cookbooks were (and still are) remarkably popular. The Weekly\, Australia’s most popular women’s magazine\, started publishing a range of cookbooks from the late 1930s\, but it was during the 1970s when their cookbooks became incredibly popular. Many of the Weekly’s cookbooks\, whether the Children’s Birthday Cake Book or the Chinese Cooking Class Cookbook\, have become ‘bibles’ in the Australian kitchen. This talk will investigate how these books came to be\, why they were so popular\, and how they helped shape Australia’s food culture. \nDr Lauren Samuelsson holds a PhD in history and is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Wollongong\, Australia. Lauren’s research interests include cultural history\, the history of food and drink\, the history of popular culture and gender history. Her PhD thesis considered the influence of the Australian Women’s Weekly magazine and cookbooks on the development of Australian food culture from the 1930s to the 1980s. She has also worked on the social and cultural history of liquor legislation in mid-twentieth century New South Wales.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/good-price-reliable-recipes-great-photos/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Free
ORGANIZER;CN="Old Treasury Building":MAILTO:bookings@otb.org.au
GEO:-25.274398;133.775136
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240607T130000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240607T140000
DTSTAMP:20260418T195527
CREATED:20240514T042858Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240514T042858Z
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SUMMARY:Material Histories: Objects at Sea
DESCRIPTION:The next installment in the seminar series from Deakin University\, Australian Catholic University and Old Treasury! ‘Material Histories’ presents new scholarship from a wide range of speakers\, all united by their passion for objects! \n\n\n\nObjects at Sea\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLuke Keogh: The Wardian Case: Lost at Sea or a Case for Stories?\nIn 1829\, the surgeon and amateur naturalist Nathanial Bagshaw Ward accidentally discovered that plants enclosed in airtight glass cases could survive for long periods without watering. The Wardian case\, as it became known\, revolutionised the movement of plants around the globe. In the cases plants had greater chance of survival when in transit. After the first successful experiment on a journey from London to Sydney and back\, the cases were used for over a century and had a major impact on the distribution of plants around the globe. As a museum object\, the Wardian case is almost lost in collections worldwide\, with only thirteen of these boxes remaining. In this presentation Luke Keogh travels across the oceans with live plants in Wardian cases and delves into the ways to approach the histories of lost museum objects.\nLuke Keogh is a curator and historian. His book The Wardian Case (Chicago\, 2020) won the NSW Premiers General History Prize and was Garden Media Guild’s Book of the Year. He lectures into the museums and history programs at Deakin University. \nDr Peter Hobbins: Pickled and preserved: a brandy bottle\, a drunken sailor and a shipwreck\nWhy would a ship’s captain steer his vessel toward shore on a night that was literally dark and stormy? Did it have anything to do with the 3000 cases of brandy\, spirits and ale in the hold? Indeed\, was Captain Samuel Bache drunk when the barque Queen of Nations grounded just north of Wollongong on 31 May 1881? This presentation focuses on a fragile survivor of that shipwreck – a brandy bottle. What might this vessel and its tempting amber fluid tell us about materiality\, mobility\, consumption\, labour\, economics\, environment\, safety and psychology at a moment of technological transformation in sea travel?\nDr Peter Hobbins leads the curatorial\, library and publications teams at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney. As a curator and historian of science\, technology and medicine\, he focuses on what we can learn about the past when things go wrong\, including snakebite\, pandemics\, aircraft crashes and shipwrecks. \nMaterial Histories is presented by Old Treasury Building in partnership with Deakin University and Australian Catholic University.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/material-histories-objects-at-sea/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Material Histories
ORGANIZER;CN="Old Treasury Building":MAILTO:bookings@otb.org.au
GEO:-25.274398;133.775136
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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240516T110000
DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20240516T120000
DTSTAMP:20260418T195527
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SUMMARY:The Teapot in Victoria: Connections in Time
DESCRIPTION:The teabag may be ubiquitous in contemporary life\, but for most of the period from 1840 tea was brewed in a teapot\, or in a billy over the fire. Almost every family owned a teapot\, and often they owned several\, for Victorians were prodigious tea drinkers. So much so\, that in 1883 visiting author Richard Twopeny described tea as the ‘national beverage’. In this lecture Margaret Anderson explores the history of tea drinking in Victoria\, through the lens of the humble teapot. From the solitary ‘cuppa’ to lavish afternoon teas\, Australians celebrated\, consoled\, and forged social connections around the tea table\, in family rituals that reached form one generation to the next.  \nPresented as part of the ‘Belongings: Objects and Family Life’ exhibition program and as part of the Australian Heritage Festival.
URL:https://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/the-teapot-in-victoria-connections-in-time/
LOCATION:Online\, Australia
CATEGORIES:Free
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