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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.

Join us for our school holiday drop-in session packed full of art, craft, and imagination. We will have fun together designing and playfully decorating plywood jigsaw puzzles. 

Join Ballarat-based journalist Dellaram Vreeland in conversation with distinguished sociologist and demographer, Professor Andrew Markus AO about the challenges facing multiculturalism in an increasingly complex and divided world.

Start your family history with easy research and planning tips.

Dr Sue Reynolds explores the life of prominent citizen of the Victorian Colony and Supreme Court Judge, Sir Redmond Barry, and his passion and advocacy for libraries, from Melbourne to Ballarat.