history (87)

School history

Carey Baptist Grammar will celebrate a centenary in 2023.  The School intends to commission a history of the School and would like to explore some options of historians/authors or companies experienced in this work.

I would welcome any  recommendation

Read more…

Quoting from http://www.canberratimes.com.au/comment/in-selling-west-and-east-block-will-we-sell-off-our-heritage-too-20170928-gyq9bt.html

SEPTEMBER 28 2017 - 1:43PM

In selling West and East Block, will we sell off our heritage, too?

Peter Dowling

 

I rec

Read more…

Quoting from http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-26/canberra-railway-museum-thrown-financial-lifeline/8744834

Canberra Railway Museum thrown 11th-hour lifeline that may prevent carriage sell-off

ABC Radio Canberra By Penny Travers, 26 July 2017

8240831886?profile=originalPHOTO: Th

Read more…

Quoting from http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-24/sacred-aboriginal-objects-returned-to-central-australia/8736876

Sacred Aboriginal objects returned to Central Australia, century after collected by museums

ABC News - AM, by Steven Schubert, 24 July 20

Read more…

Quoting from http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-13/canberra-railway-museum-forced-to-sell-off-historic-trains/8704552

Canberra Railway Museum forced to sell off historic train carriages

ABC Radio Canberra , 13 July 2017, By Hannah Walmsley

8240831089?profile=originalPHOTO: Austra

Read more…

Quoting from http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-25/english-surfer-solves-mystery-of-australian-pirate-ship-in-japan/8639906

The brig Cyprus: How an English surfer solved the mystery of an Australian pirate ship in Japan

ABC News, 25 June 2017, By Tokyo

Read more…

Quoting from http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/isis-grand-mosque-al-nuri-blow-up-destroy-mosul-caliphate-al-baghdadi-latest-a7801846.html

Isis blows up Grand al-Nuri Mosque in Mosul where caliphate was declared, Iraqi army says

Iraqi military lea

Read more…

For the full article, complete with video and audio files, please visit: ABC News

Nazi artefacts don't belong in a Holocaust museum, Sydney Jewish Museum historian says

The World Today 

By David Coady

VIDEO: The Nazi cache that could pin Hitler's missing

Read more…

Exclusive: Letters, manuscripts, photographs and props have been acquired by university in Austin for $400,000

Peter O’Toole on set of the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia.
Peter O’Toole on set of the 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia. Photograph: Courtesy Ha
Read more…

Quoting from http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/canberra-life/nicholas-ngs-harvest-of-endurance-at-the-canberra-international-music-festival-20170426-gvsphe.html

 

APRIL 26 2017 - 6:04PM

 

Nicholas Ng's Harvest of Endurance at the Canberra Internat

Read more…

The lost letter that could prove a soldier from Nebo saved Winston Churchill's life during the Boer War

Posted Fri at 4:30pm

Read more…