PAST PROGRAMS

Ballarat Library Outreach Service visits the Eureka Centre each Thursday morning from 10.30am.

Join Mayor Cr Daniel Moloney online to commemorate Eureka Day and honour the people involved in the events surrounding the 1854 Eureka Stockade, including those who lost their lives. 

In this livestreamed event, we welcome David Bannear to deliver the 2020 Peter Tobin Oration on the 166th anniversary of the Eureka Stockade.

This is a recording of a public lecture that was live streamed to Facebook on 07/07/2020. In this online edition of Talking History, Dr Fred Cahir discusses his book "My Country all gone. The White men have stolen it”: The Invasion of Wadawurrung Country 1800-1870".

In the final Talking History @ Eureka for 2020, author Robyn Annear explores the story of Harriet Clisby within the broader context of women’s rights and employment in her talk, Words that Burn.

This is a recording of a public lecture that was live streamed to Facebook on 04/08/2020. In this online edition of Talking History, Dr Peter Dowling explores images of Ballarat as printed in illustrated newspapers.

View our program of virtual events to mark this year’s anniversary of the Eureka Stockade. 

‘Overburden’ addresses the legacy of gold rush era mining and explores our perception of the natural world.

This is a recording of a public lecture that was live streamed to Facebook on 01/09/2020. In this online edition of Talking History, Beth Kicinski takes a look at the Phoenix Foundry and the social history hidden in industrial heritage.