PAST PROGRAMS

Join us for a panel discussion to learn more about a project underway to have the Victorian Goldfields declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site, followed by afternoon tea with the panel members.

Ballarat District Irish Association is launching a new project, funded by Public Records Office Victoria, to highlight the contribution of Irish women to Ballarat’s social, cultural, and industrial development. Join us for a panel discussion to find out more about the project and how you can get involved.

Join us for a talk by one of Australia’s leading historians, Professor Marilyn Lake AO as she delves into the achievements of radical colonial reform in Victoria culminating in the first compulsory minimum wage in the world in 1896.

Do you have a soldier in the family? Explore the records at the Australian War Memorial and the National Archives of Australia.

Professor Diane Kirkby explores why and how pubs were a vital source of waged work for women, and the Australian pub’s fascinating history of cultural and social change.

This workshop introduces the Ancestry Library Edition and its features. Ancestry is the best place to start when beginning your family history.

This display highlights books of poetry and prose from that transitional time by some of Australia’s best loved writers and illustrators. During BRHAE Opening Hours: Monday - Thursday 10am - 4.30pm

Suspended blue aprons enclose and entangle the viewer as a metaphor for the selfless investment of heart and soul by women across time. 

Dr Janice Newton brings her recent book to life ‘The Woodlanders of Walden Hut’, which tells the story of three men inspired to write about the nature surrounding a hut in the Dandenongs between 1903-1907.