Debate: Macarthur vs Bligh
- Type:
- Talk
- Date:
- Tuesday 5 February 2008
- Time:
- 6.00 PM to 9.27 AM
- Venue:
- Dixson Room, Mitchell Wing
- Cost:
- $22, $20 (seniors), $15 (Friends & students) includes light refreshments
Note: This is a past event and is shown here for archival purposes only.
Michael Duffy, author of John Macarthur: Man of honour and Sydney Morning Herald columnist, and Paul Brunton, Senior Curator, Mitchell Library, will debate whose vision should shape the early Colony of New South Wales.
In association with the exhibition Politics and Power
Events at the State Library of NSW are generously supported by Taylor’s Wines.
Image: The arrest of Governor Bligh, 1808, artist unknown, watercolour
