Talking History

Down the rabbit hole

Apr 27, 2021

Fiction writers often draw on real events and people to inspire their stories. Many writers undertake extensive historical research as part of their craft. A story about the past can be made to come alive with the small details that immerse us in a time before our own. Where does the history stop and the fiction begin?...

South Australia's History Festival Podcast: A State of Change

Apr 23, 2021

Special History Festival series

The History Festival has teamed up with Solstice Podcasting to give you a five-episode taste of the 2021 History Festival program.

In episode one, we go behind the scenes at the Between Two Worlds exhibition and learn a little about the Kaurna culture on display from Aunty Lynette...

Windjammers

Apr 20, 2021

Windjammers were enormous steel and iron sailing ships that transported South Australian grain during the final days of commercial sail. Sailing yearly from the Åland Islands, in the Finnish Baltic, Windjammers arrived in the South Australian summer to collect grain. They also collected young South Australians keen to...

Jeanne Barret - The Woman Who Sailed the World

Apr 20, 2021

When the first woman to circumnavigate the world completed her journey in 1776, she returned home without any fanfare at all. Jeanne Barret, an impoverished peasant from Burgundy, disguised herself as a man and sailed on the 1766 Bougainville voyage as the naturalist’s assistant. For over two centuries, the story of...