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Talking History

Nov 29, 2016

Information about the history of the Union Church building in Peterborough, South Australia. Recorded with Judy Evens as part of 'Making History: The Peterborough Project' October 2016.


Jul 13, 2016

Dr Don Longo presents a rural South Australian perspective on the First World War through the experiences of a young soldier from Koolywurtie, Yorke Peninsula. Australian iconography of the 'Great War' privileges the volunteer from rural communities, the ordinary boy from the farm caught up in extraordinary, and...


May 25, 2016

This lecture was supported by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Canberra. Martin Bayer, an in international guest speaker and historian from Germany explored commemoration in this one off public lecture. In Germany, a common narrative of the First World War could never be established. In recent years, the...


Apr 13, 2016

Tom Gara presents his research on the impact the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1919 had on Aboriginal people in South Australia.


Apr 13, 2016

On October 25 Dr Geoff Wells presented to the State History Conference 2015 at Robe SA, on the Robe Conservation Study 1979. Visit his blog to find out more: http://www.ruralaus.com/2015/10/25/state-history-conference-presentation-robe-conservation-study-1979/