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Scholar Talk: Daily & intimate records of World War I
For the past 5 years the Library has been digitising, exhibiting and promoting its First World War collections as part of the centenary of the Great War. Central to the Library’s collection are the personal diaries written by men and women who served. This collection was added to the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World register in 2015.
This session questions the ethical issues involved in working on commissioned histories for different groups or communities.
Rebecca Huntley will talk about her latest Quarterly Essay on the state of the nation asking what does social-democratic Australia want, and why?
Stranger Country is the blow-by-blow account of the six months Monica drove and camped her way through some of Australia’s most beautiful landscapes and shared meals with miners, grey nomads, artists, farmers, community workers and small business owners from across the nation.
Beyond Signage? Heritage Interpretation
Session 3 in the History Matters Series asks: ‘In the professional field of heritage interpretation, are historians out in the cold?’ Heritage interpretation is dominated by specialists other than historians. What can historians do for heritage interpretation? What can heritage interpretation do for historians?
Neil James will talk about his 25-year journey through the A&R archives and how our greatest publishing house both reflected and reshaped the Australian nation.
Jocelyn comes to the Library to talk about her first book, a memoir called Unconditional Love, which details her life story over the last twenty-odd years.