THRA What’s New

The fifty-ninth Annual General Meeting of the Tasmanian Historical Research Association Inc will be held in the Royal Society Room, in the Custom House, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery on Tuesday 8 February 2011, commencing at 8.00pm.   

Speaker: Brian Andrews: Pugin churches   

Speaker Rob Dobson: The scientific educators: measuring and fitting Tasmanians for the twentieth century

John Hirst Quite Contrary: Turning Over Australian History

To be held in the Hobart Town Hall

Speaker Chris Woods: Imperial Lunatics at Port Arthur

Julie Gough: Manuscripts 3251: the interrelations of Norfolk Plains, 1820s-1840s: depositions across race, class and gender.

John Dent – York Town: then (1804-1808) and now (2000-2010)

Commemorating the 150^th anniversary of the publication of Hooker’s  Flora of Tasmaniae

Dr Peter Donaldson is making a major television documentary on the life and importance of Sir Joseph Hooker, probably the greatest botanist of the 19^th century. Joseph and his father William virtually established the world’s foremost botanical gardens at Kew UK and Joseph had a major role in making botany a true science.

The talk will discuss Hooker’s early life including the Ross Antarctic Expedition, which visited Hobart twice in the early 1840’s.

Three talks will be given as follows:

• Wednesday 17 February 8pm start – doors open at 7.30pm Royal Society of Tasmania Rooms, 19 Davey St Hobart.

• Thursday  18 February 7.30 pm at Queen Victoria Museum Inveresk

• Friday 6.00 pm Emu Valley rhododendron society Breffney Rd Romaine Burnie

The 58th Annual General Meeting of the Tasmanian Historical Research Association Inc will be held in the Royal Society Room, in the Custom House, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, on Tuesday, 9 February 2010, Commencing at 8.00pm.

Speaker: Barry McNeil – A Tasmanian Life

The next general meeting of THRA will be held in the Royal Society Room of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery at 8pm on 10 November, 2009. Dr Ian McFarlane will present a paper entitled, Adolphus Schayer – a German Perspective on Van Diemen’s Land. Adolphus Schayer was a superintendent at Woolnorth during the 1830s and 1840s.

All welcome.

A public lecture will be held on Thursday Sept 24 2009 in Launceston by Lieutenant Colonel James Brownlie on the Fromelles project. The lecture is part of the national conference of the Australian Society of Historical Archaeologists and the Australian Institute of Maritime Archaeologists.
The details are:
The Fromelles Project
Lieutenant Colonel James Brownlie, Australian Fromelles Project Group
Thursday, Sept 24 2009
5:30 – 6:45pm
Auditorium, Tramshed Function Centre & Auditorium, Inveresk, Launceston