Join us at the ANU Archives annual lecture for 2022 – ‘Friendly society or force for nationalism? The Australian Natives Association, 1871-1901’.
About the lecture
Friendly Societies provided mutual assistance, social connection, and financial benefit to many people in a time before the existence of health insurance companies and broad government social security schemes. Although non-sectarian and non-partisan, friendly societies and their members were active for social and political causes. The Noel Butlin Archives Centre holds records from many major Friendly Societies, including the Australian Natives Association.
Join us to hear Professor Emerita Marian Quartly delve into the nature of this particular Friendly Society and the role it played in an important period of Australia’s history.
About the speaker
Marian Quartly is Professor Emerita in the Monash School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies. Her most cited works are Creating a Nation (2006), and Australians 1838 (1987). More recently she has published a history of the National Council of Women of Australia, Respectable Radicals (2015), and a history of Australian adoption, The Market in Babies (2013). She is currently completing a history of her own family that will contribute to the disciplines of both family history and South Australian history.
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