PAST PROGRAMS

Gariwerd: Exploring the history and nature of the Grampians - a public lecture.

A public lecture on one of Australia’s first and largest department stores and clothing manufacturers, Foy & Gibson. Followed by Q&A.

In the lead up to Eureka 168 audience favourite Doug Bradby joins us to present an examination of November 1854 and whether the violent events of December 1854 were inevitable or could have been avoided.

In this talk, Elizabeth Offer from the Jewish Museum of Australia goes beyond the narratives of men, gold, and rebellion on the goldfields, to find the hidden histories of Jewish women in Colonial Ballarat.

On the eve of the 100-year anniversary of Henry Lawson’s death, join Brigid Magner as she discusses the cultural meanings of relics related to Lawson which have been preserved in public collections.

Here at the Eureka Centre honour the contribution of Raffaello Carboni to the Eureka story, but he was only one of many Italians on the goldfields. This month Clare Gervasoni presents ‘More than Carboni: Italian Speakers on Victoria’s Goldfields’- a tour through Victoria’s early Italian heritage.

Join Dr Stuart King as he looks at Colonial Architecture in a new way. Stuart presents the result of his research on the Analysis of Colonial Tasman Architecture through materials rather than design. Stuart is a Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design and History at the University of Melbourne.

In this edition of Talking History, Padraic L. Fisher from the National Wool Museum will draw from the museum’s extensive collection to examine the art of making do and the creation of the bush blanket, or Wagga Quilt.

Join Dr Linda Young as she examines a unique type of jewellery invented in the 1850s, likely in Ballarat, to assert that the hard manual labour of digging for gold was a glorious achievement. This event was rescheduled from 07 October 2021.