tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46371489280357954972024-03-14T06:42:19.745+11:00Ku-ring-gai Historical SocietyCollecting, preserving and disseminating information relating to the history of the Ku-ring-gai MunicipalityKHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16004142294346941011noreply@blogger.comBlogger349125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637148928035795497.post-72373631701888215372024-03-01T12:40:00.001+11:002024-03-01T12:40:40.147+11:00March 2024 General Meeting - Saturday 16 March<p> </p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">Guest Speaker:<br />Andrew Rogers</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuoZpwpm33v6y2wEAy3-2He4o9z9WmIBpb3sw_eHzFmzYSAFPGd3gLyGUh0a4-fx1kjTqzsqG_wP-lTJpqNFPhPsWFcnj86DUDzPFc5n_wRxC2PBRfeJcmW_hZpWsjelx8DImQjOPd8YgRRMTiKjOkYEYVWWeAPthTvfjxT6cBOWwAoWq3b_GYhIxTHHjT/s519/Andrew%20Rogers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="519" data-original-width="436" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuoZpwpm33v6y2wEAy3-2He4o9z9WmIBpb3sw_eHzFmzYSAFPGd3gLyGUh0a4-fx1kjTqzsqG_wP-lTJpqNFPhPsWFcnj86DUDzPFc5n_wRxC2PBRfeJcmW_hZpWsjelx8DImQjOPd8YgRRMTiKjOkYEYVWWeAPthTvfjxT6cBOWwAoWq3b_GYhIxTHHjT/w168-h200/Andrew%20Rogers.jpg" width="168" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: xx-large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Join us in Gordon Library Meeting Room 1</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">at </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">2 pm on Saturday 16 March 2024<br /></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b>when Andrew Rogers presents...</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>Australians and the RMS Titanic</i></b></span></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Andrew Rogers is one of the few people who have made the epic 2½-hour journey inside a submersible pod, down into the dark, cold depths of the watery graveyard of the doomed RMS Titanic.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Andrew has an amazing tale to tell of his 4-kilometre descent in 1998, as well as his subsequent research into all aspects of Australia’s involvement in the fateful Titanic disaster – including the intriguing stories of the Australians on board. Join us for an amazing adventure!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">As always, please <a href="http://www.khs.org.au/events" target="_blank">keep an eye on our website</a> in case of any last-minute changes.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The venue is Gordon Library Meeting Room No. 1, in the Old Gordon Public School, which adjoins the Gordon Library, 799 Pacific Highway, Gordon (corner Pacific Highway and Park Avenue).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It’s just a 5-minute walk from Gordon Station.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">For a map and parking information, see our <a href="http://www.khs.org.au/contact-us/" target="_blank">Contact page</a>.</span></p>KHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16004142294346941011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637148928035795497.post-22398461380548868172024-02-24T15:13:00.000+11:002024-02-24T15:13:11.096+11:0060th Anniversary Dinner photos<p>We ended last year on a high with the great success of our 60th Anniversary Dinner on 21st November.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">The preparations went smoothly for the celebratory event which was held at the St Ives Club, a fantastic venue. Thanks to Annet and Kevin Latham, as well as chef Nick Williams from Pinnacle Catering, the evening was very much enjoyed by all those in attendance.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">A great feature of the night was images from the 60s era, sourced and compiled by our Secretary, Judith Godden, and displayed on the screens around the room.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">As a special gift, all guests were thrilled to receive a complimentary copy of our latest publication, ‘Ku-ring-gai – a peep at our past’, a historical compilation of glossy images. If you were not able to attend the dinner, this beautifully presented book is now available from the Society for just $15 at <a href="https://khs.org.au/large-books/">https://khs.org.au/large-books/</a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Jill Nicholson’s and Sue Moore’s photography captured some special memories of the evening for our archives, a selection of which appear here.</div></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfakiklkxzpcEmlSyYABbQU8IUTKYuqbaCs1UK_hCV4Dv-TIh7I74R16_3lp7PkeTijiSa7_ec_tCl26oI0VyTgAz_P-bh19-aIUJde3N_Yg6ldDcu5n2fO6znAjKKGsY-e6VWg1fTszNRYTC4i3UatFUBV2PozGzzfgRBITzBMcbsCwB-una-5Yw7w_QC/s1008/IMG_1050~photo-full.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="756" data-original-width="1008" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfakiklkxzpcEmlSyYABbQU8IUTKYuqbaCs1UK_hCV4Dv-TIh7I74R16_3lp7PkeTijiSa7_ec_tCl26oI0VyTgAz_P-bh19-aIUJde3N_Yg6ldDcu5n2fO6znAjKKGsY-e6VWg1fTszNRYTC4i3UatFUBV2PozGzzfgRBITzBMcbsCwB-una-5Yw7w_QC/s320/IMG_1050~photo-full.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;">at </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>2pm on Saturday 17 February 2024</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>for... </b></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><i>From the Film Vaults</i></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhpm0nHqwLvpewrRGbTVgdKEUCCWHdA4FvPmaPHDaD-UeDNmkKzCC4LlzHCQtE934_mb5tnxQcxOIZX3NMjzEUynzWIJ8t7OLcgbgDiiZePZWGGtCIQH9q7xZoi-tVxsdZ_lDgNDllehCp7FtKE1oTMz0Ei4fkQHP4UMMq3sCwmk04bnYctcCYL5GKtmFr/s403/From%20the%20Film%20Vaults.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="403" data-original-width="369" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhpm0nHqwLvpewrRGbTVgdKEUCCWHdA4FvPmaPHDaD-UeDNmkKzCC4LlzHCQtE934_mb5tnxQcxOIZX3NMjzEUynzWIJ8t7OLcgbgDiiZePZWGGtCIQH9q7xZoi-tVxsdZ_lDgNDllehCp7FtKE1oTMz0Ei4fkQHP4UMMq3sCwmk04bnYctcCYL5GKtmFr/w366-h400/From%20the%20Film%20Vaults.jpg" width="366" /></a></div></b></span></span></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Our previously advertised guest speaker, James Curran, is no longer able to attend due to unforeseen circumstances. In his place, we will be presenting… <i>From the Film Vaults</i>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Believe it or not, the last time we presented a program of early films of Sydney, it was through the old-fashioned medium of VHS videotape!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">This time our selection will be projected in crystal-clear 21st century multi-bit digital quality!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Join us for a nostalgic rendezvous with Sydney’s past in our 45-minute journey down memory lane.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">As always, please keep an eye on our website in case of any last-minute changes, <a href="https://www.khs.org.au/events" target="_blank">www.khs.org.au/events</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The venue is Gordon Library Meeting Room No. 1, in the Old Gordon Public School, which adjoins the Gordon Library, 799 Pacific Highway, Gordon (corner Pacific Highway and Park Avenue).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It’s just a 5-minute walk from Gordon Station.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">For a map and parking information, see our <a href="https://www.khs.org.au/contact-us/" target="_blank">Contact page</a></span></p>KHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16004142294346941011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637148928035795497.post-37341181780012590902024-01-09T11:19:00.003+11:002024-01-09T11:19:58.936+11:00January 2024 General Meeting - Saturday 20 January<p> </p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">Guest Speaker:<br />John F. Brock</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieAzT7_fNMeyBnVP2MbuVz9PihJ7aRfEN4OjCCnQHE1n3QaXyeyOBZ_Hcs1UbMSFTG_iYWSAPu0ncZd8TUyVO0dCD95qbYlEsWgriwbqN_rBQQdpKGcT4tesaGy3-aOJhKnpLecQopmjxC19j-kjSw-ikifq_yFa8seShXHEGLMano0HcqOdfXg02_ApWQ/s691/John%20F%20Brock%20portrait.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="691" data-original-width="630" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieAzT7_fNMeyBnVP2MbuVz9PihJ7aRfEN4OjCCnQHE1n3QaXyeyOBZ_Hcs1UbMSFTG_iYWSAPu0ncZd8TUyVO0dCD95qbYlEsWgriwbqN_rBQQdpKGcT4tesaGy3-aOJhKnpLecQopmjxC19j-kjSw-ikifq_yFa8seShXHEGLMano0HcqOdfXg02_ApWQ/w183-h200/John%20F%20Brock%20portrait.jpg" width="183" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Join us in Gordon Library Meeting Room 1</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">at </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">2 pm on Saturday 20 January 2024<br /></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b>when John F. Brock presents...</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>Kościuszko and Strzelecki</i></b></span></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Opening our Speakers Program for 2024, surveyor John F. Brock will relate how the lives of two great Polish patriots – interwoven by adventure and a dedication to democratic liberalism – had a not-so-well-known Australian connection.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">When Strzelecki became the first European to reach the top of the highest peak on mainland Australia, his exhilaration conjured up reminiscences of his Polish homeland, to which he would sadly never return alive.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The nostalgic vision of the lofty <i>Kopiec Kościuszki</i> in Krakow (which was a memorial to the great Polish freedom fighter, Tadeusz Kościuszko) came to his mind – compelling him to name this mountain in his honour, in a place of freedom and democracy thousands of miles from their home.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Join us for what is sure to be a fascinating look at two most intriguing Poles, as John F. Brock takes us on a voyage of discovery, up mountains and across the hemispheres.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">As always, please <a href="http://www.khs.org.au/events" target="_blank">keep an eye on our website</a> in case of any last-minute changes.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The venue is Gordon Library Meeting Room No. 1, in the Old Gordon Public School, which adjoins the Gordon Library, 799 Pacific Highway, Gordon (corner Pacific Highway and Park Avenue).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It’s just a 5-minute walk from Gordon Station.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">For a map and parking information, see our <a href="http://www.khs.org.au/contact-us/" target="_blank">Contact page</a>.</span></p>KHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16004142294346941011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637148928035795497.post-18846207716018192952023-11-03T11:20:00.002+11:002023-11-03T11:23:01.464+11:00No KHS General Meeting on 18th November<p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Please note that there will be no meeting or guest speaker on Saturday 18th November, when we would normally hold our monthly General Meeting.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">We are looking forward to celebrating our 60th anniversary on the evening of Tuesday 21st November. If you have any queries, please contact <a href="mailto:khs@khs.org.au">khs@khs.org.au</a></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjORL_o36jb4144xplkIKwX0eZqyCh_9jqltD8UDU_I0QZfP6oXmk1XtQR6T1iX2ANc_5NgPzH-xqkqUvauvuSVmSQMkyW9eqxsO-t-77O9ApTMELQ5Y7J9iOsxv53A3juXrvXW3I4K48DABsxP7unvsTNjwSVIy59F02tkrjHOm1pO0Dt8hXC4LQGgifFS/s480/062407-Gordon-Public-School.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="251" data-original-width="480" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjORL_o36jb4144xplkIKwX0eZqyCh_9jqltD8UDU_I0QZfP6oXmk1XtQR6T1iX2ANc_5NgPzH-xqkqUvauvuSVmSQMkyW9eqxsO-t-77O9ApTMELQ5Y7J9iOsxv53A3juXrvXW3I4K48DABsxP7unvsTNjwSVIy59F02tkrjHOm1pO0Dt8hXC4LQGgifFS/s320/062407-Gordon-Public-School.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>KHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16004142294346941011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637148928035795497.post-57048370093808961262023-09-17T11:31:00.000+10:002023-09-17T11:31:10.703+10:00Annual General Meeting - Saturday 21 October<p> </p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;"><u>KHS 2023 AGM</u><br />Followed by Guest Speaker:<br />Dr Judith Godden</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIH9unU74M1H1-GlAZnBUUE2Gyq-VLm_oM9KPAuiQfxDPMcNSt_s5lQnC8OPDJ2BQZU3iNUMv4SH7K4YyLPTtrm0jHj8z29ffynIa9JKSN8c2F1sJYorxCkFWO6cCewsbtuLDae-cKRGZ7YmXrzjS5SDVAAZ70ZbC23Q2DEg4EjGgdP8wmD9QDlpRjKSCy/s628/Judith%20Godden.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="628" data-original-width="445" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIH9unU74M1H1-GlAZnBUUE2Gyq-VLm_oM9KPAuiQfxDPMcNSt_s5lQnC8OPDJ2BQZU3iNUMv4SH7K4YyLPTtrm0jHj8z29ffynIa9JKSN8c2F1sJYorxCkFWO6cCewsbtuLDae-cKRGZ7YmXrzjS5SDVAAZ70ZbC23Q2DEg4EjGgdP8wmD9QDlpRjKSCy/w142-h200/Judith%20Godden.jpg" width="142" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Join us in Gordon Library Meeting Room 1</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">at </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">2 pm on Saturday 21 October 2023</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">for our Annual General Meeting<br /></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b>after which Dr Judith Godden presents...</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>Lucy Osburn – Controversial Nursing Founder</i></b></span></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Our guest speaker following our AGM will be Dr Judith Godden, professional historian, Secretary of Ku-ring-gai Historical Society, and honorary associate of the Department of History at the University of Sydney.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Judith will talk about the controversial subject of her first book, <i><a href="https://judithgodden.com.au/jg1/lucy-osburn/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lucy Osburn, a Lady Displaced: Florence Nightingale’s Envoy to Australia</a></i> (Sydney University Press, 2006) which was short-listed for the National Biography Award.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Osburn learned her vocation at Florence Nightingale's school of nursing in London, but her relationship with Nightingale was not the smooth discourse of 'Victorian ladies'.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Celebrated as the founder of modern Australian nursing, Lucy Osburn (1836-91) was sent to Sydney by Florence Nightingale to reform nursing in Australia. After arriving here in 1868, followed by 16 tumultuous years at Sydney Hospital, Lucy Osburn eventually succeeded, thanks to her immense resilience – despite considerable mistakes that led to her being repudiated by Florence Nightingale.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">In her enthralling and enlightening biography, Judith Godden has collected Lucy Osburn’s extensive and frank correspondence, which is used to build an intriguing picture of life for an independent middle-class woman.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Lucy Osburn also pioneered the employment of high status professional women in public institutions. Her triumphs and trials in NSW typify the struggles the colony faced in its relations with Britain, and with new roles in the workplace for women.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">In this presentation, you'll find out about the tumultuous 16 years Lucy Osburn spent at Sydney Hospital, and why she is celebrated as the founder of modern Australian nursing - even though Florence Nightingale effectively disowned her!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Find out too, why Judith thinks we should all know her story.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">As always, please <a href="http://www.khs.org.au/events" target="_blank">keep an eye on our website</a> in case of any last-minute changes.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The venue is Gordon Library Meeting Room No. 1, in the Old Gordon Public School, which adjoins the Gordon Library, 799 Pacific Highway, Gordon (corner Pacific Highway and Park Avenue).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It’s just a 5-minute walk from Gordon Station.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">For a map and parking information, see our <a href="http://www.khs.org.au/contact-us/" target="_blank">Contact page</a>.</span></p>KHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16004142294346941011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637148928035795497.post-19353304642416544162023-09-03T19:17:00.002+10:002023-09-03T19:17:49.698+10:00September 2023 General Meeting - Saturday 16 September<p> </p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">Guest Speaker:<br />Dr Ian Hoskins</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-Kdia2EsZTmUaJDICRKprBDYK8VEKX-JqI0RyIxTuBcPf9J5_7ReiL2h4WRTPCM3yDaJboKylyWGFPZsr5LFAxglALWXfWjDJlRPCksZGXrVHIS0es3__Y83g5fxR--ffQOkDHWzPMa_D8OvJvKuUwvuM_Vw4hi5d5J35l2eLJgEm1ilIDzsvjYUb8kHb/s300/Ian%20Hoskins.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="287" data-original-width="300" height="191" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-Kdia2EsZTmUaJDICRKprBDYK8VEKX-JqI0RyIxTuBcPf9J5_7ReiL2h4WRTPCM3yDaJboKylyWGFPZsr5LFAxglALWXfWjDJlRPCksZGXrVHIS0es3__Y83g5fxR--ffQOkDHWzPMa_D8OvJvKuUwvuM_Vw4hi5d5J35l2eLJgEm1ilIDzsvjYUb8kHb/w200-h191/Ian%20Hoskins.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Join us in Gordon Library Meeting Room 1</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">at </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">2 pm on Saturday 16 September 2023<br /></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b>when Dr Ian Hoskins presents...</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>Australia and the Pacific</i></b></span></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Our guest speaker will be award-winning author and professional historian, Dr Ian Hoskins.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">In his most recent book, <i><a href="https://ianhoskins.com/?page_id=822" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Australia and the Pacific: a History</a></i>, Ian examines a timely subject – our place in the Pacific and our relations with the myriad Pacific island nations, as well as those with larger players – from our ties with Papua New Guinea and New Zealand to our complex connections with China, Japan and the United States.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">This revealing, sweeping narrative history begins with the shifting of the continents to the coming of the first Australians and, thousands of years later, the Europeans who dispossessed them.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>About Ian Hoskins</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Ian has worked as an academic historian, a curator and a professional historian in Sydney for more than 30 years. He researches and writes when he is not working as the North Sydney Historian, where he researches and interprets the local area.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Ian is passionate about history (both local and broad) and landscapes (both cultural and natural) along with the architecture, modifications and plantings that make up those places — and the literature and artwork created to represent them.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">As always, please <a href="http://www.khs.org.au/events" target="_blank">keep an eye on our website</a> in case of any last-minute changes.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The venue is Gordon Library Meeting Room No. 1, in the Old Gordon Public School, which adjoins the Gordon Library, 799 Pacific Highway, Gordon (corner Pacific Highway and Park Avenue).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It’s just a 5-minute walk from Gordon Station.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">For a map and parking information, see our <a href="http://www.khs.org.au/contact-us/" target="_blank">Contact page</a>.</span></p>KHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16004142294346941011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637148928035795497.post-43619439980441658392023-08-07T09:55:00.001+10:002023-08-07T10:04:31.200+10:00August 2023 General Meeting - Saturday 19 August<p> </p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">Guest Speaker:<br />Warren Fahey, AM</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKNQ4TRgfXLVdzn9c4W39uou1oui3zkWN50fJdkazk6hiL_4w8PBXRqSFTqM7zAwdTb9mfnvFhr-8_SdqIZT1L053eKfz-_YArf540OdFU3tMYf0Gffu4S-O46rOBuT3gJfIaAtk0Oe1Oky4H6dwPXId0a-fLuGegrdVOSXDwpE3aSfoxIc2D0S0rW0R18/s300/Warren%20Fahey%20(Aug%202023%20speaker).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="221" data-original-width="300" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKNQ4TRgfXLVdzn9c4W39uou1oui3zkWN50fJdkazk6hiL_4w8PBXRqSFTqM7zAwdTb9mfnvFhr-8_SdqIZT1L053eKfz-_YArf540OdFU3tMYf0Gffu4S-O46rOBuT3gJfIaAtk0Oe1Oky4H6dwPXId0a-fLuGegrdVOSXDwpE3aSfoxIc2D0S0rW0R18/s1600/Warren%20Fahey%20(Aug%202023%20speaker).jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Join us in Gordon Library Meeting Room 1</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">at </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">2 pm on Saturday 19 August 2023<br /></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b>when Warren Fahey presents...</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>Dead and Buried – Sydney’s Earliest Burial Grounds</i></b></span></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Our guest speaker will be Warren Fahey - author, social historian and local legend.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Warren’s latest book is <i>Dead and Buried: a curious history of Sydney’s earliest burial grounds</i>, which looks at Sydney’s three earliest cemeteries.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Cemeteries hold so many fascinating stories. Sydney’s three main earliest cemeteries – The Old Burial Ground on George Street, Devonshire Street ‘Sandhill’s’ Cemetery and the grand Victorian Rookwood Necropolis – all document the social history of Sydney from the arrival of the First Fleet through to the present time. These are stories of notable and ordinary people, architecture, landscaping, and the ever-changing attitude to burial and remembrance.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">This collection of stories attempts to explain how the three early cemeteries evolved and, considering Rookwood is the most significant Victorian necropolis in the southern hemisphere and one of the largest in the world, how it has serviced Sydney for over 150 years. These are not morbid stories but a reminder of the mortality we all face. Many of the stories are from newspaper accounts and obituaries. There are also many stories where the writer has diverted from the main story to reveal fascinating glimpses of yesteryear’s Sydney and society.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">As a slice of Sydney past, the material concentrates on the earlier side of history with tales of colonial notables, sensational murders, tragedies, poets and politicians, artists and dreamers, gallant heroes and, because it is a Sydney history, a goodly number of eccentrics, ratbags and rabble-rousers. The collection also represents the religious, non-religious and ever-widening cultural diversity of Sydney.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">In digging up Sydney’s early history Warren Fahey relates tales of notable burials and the good, bad and ugly of Sydney city. The illustrated talk also comments on changing attitudes to death, especially in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>About Warren Fahey</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Warren is an Australian folklore collector, cultural historian, prolific author, actor, broadcaster, record and concert producer, visual artist, songwriter, performer of Australian traditional and historical music, and occasional ABC ‘talking head’.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Specialising in the ‘curious’ side of history, he is well-known as an informative and entertaining speaker. He has been honoured with the Order of Australia, Prime Minister’s Centennial Medal, Advance Australia Award and the nation’s highest award for lifetime achievement in music, The Don Banks Music Award. He prefers to say he is “a graduate of the Dingo University!”</span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>Dead & Buried</i> is 700 pages with rare photographs and illustrations, and copies will be available for $35. Credit/debit cards accepted</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">.</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">As always, please <a href="http://www.khs.org.au/events" target="_blank">keep an eye on our website</a> in case of any last-minute changes.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The venue is Gordon Library Meeting Room No. 1, in the Old Gordon Public School, which adjoins the Gordon Library, 799 Pacific Highway, Gordon (corner Pacific Highway and Park Avenue).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It’s just a 5-minute walk from Gordon Station.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">For a map and parking information, see our <a href="http://www.khs.org.au/contact-us/" target="_blank">Contact page</a>.</span></p>KHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16004142294346941011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637148928035795497.post-44772983768499083792023-06-30T11:32:00.001+10:002023-06-30T11:32:10.544+10:00July 2023 General Meeting - Saturday 15 July<p> </p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">Guest Speaker:<br />Phillip Simpson</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4y6jMtL2_olW5o3D1G1akKaL0b-GAa1HSQItklEZiuXqqWMx3_SU9ZtDMYh3pwy-0hUvafv7-KuN1D8iuV1GLKCLjE55OO7HrN3K0XC8XEP_yqJmIgQ_rLzkwOTiOJu2XIZjo4DM_ci1aHagX1Mi8Jl2tgTRnXlcA0xn13vAjxEWZ9LuVXMkp7upE5I7c/s1884/Phillip%20Simpson.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1884" data-original-width="1628" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4y6jMtL2_olW5o3D1G1akKaL0b-GAa1HSQItklEZiuXqqWMx3_SU9ZtDMYh3pwy-0hUvafv7-KuN1D8iuV1GLKCLjE55OO7HrN3K0XC8XEP_yqJmIgQ_rLzkwOTiOJu2XIZjo4DM_ci1aHagX1Mi8Jl2tgTRnXlcA0xn13vAjxEWZ9LuVXMkp7upE5I7c/w173-h200/Phillip%20Simpson.JPG" width="173" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Join us in Gordon Library Meeting Room 1</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">at </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">2 pm on Saturday 15 July 2023<br /></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b>when Phillip Simpson presents...</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>Historical Guide to New South Wales</i></b></span></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Phillip spent spent nearly 31 years writing the <i>Historical Guide to New South Wales</i> (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2020). At 835 pages it is the first comprehensive guide to the location and history of every country town and village in the State. Never before has there been an attempt to succinctly record the location, history, industries, buildings, calamities and the population of over 9700 cities, towns, villages, hamlets and localities outside Sydney. It is the only place-by-place chronology of the settlement, history and development of Australia’s premier State, covering over 230 years and almost a third of the nation’s places.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Phillip's presentation will illustrate how he achieved this, and how the result will be indispensable to historians, geographers, librarians, heritage consultants, local historical societies, local councils, journalists and especially family historians, not to mention inquisitive tourists.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It will illustrate how and why towns came about; the amazing variety of industries in which people worked; the infrastructure that enabled people to move around; the churches that held many communities together; the schools; the public services including post, telegraph, water, sewerage, gas, electricity, fire brigades and ambulance services; law and order; and the range of calamities faced by so many, including epidemics, dust storms, pests, and numerous fires when there was no reticulated water and few fire brigades. The talk will be illustrated with actual examples from many towns.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>About Phillip Simpson</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Phillip is uniquely qualified for a task of this scope and magnitude, with several decades of experience in heritage and government in NSW, and postgraduate degrees in both Historical Archaeology and Public Administration from the University of Sydney. For a decade he was the Chairman of one of the National Trust’s principal research committees. In acknowledgement of his service to the recognition and preservation of our heritage and his contributions to industrial archaeology and the history of technology in particular, he was awarded the Trust’s silver medallion. More recently the Premier of NSW awarded him a medallion for meritorious long service to the State.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">As always, please <a href="http://www.khs.org.au/events" target="_blank">keep an eye on our website</a> in case of any last-minute changes.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The venue is Gordon Library Meeting Room No. 1, in the Old Gordon Public School, which adjoins the Gordon Library, 799 Pacific Highway, Gordon (corner Pacific Highway and Park Avenue).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It’s just a 5-minute walk from Gordon Station.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">For a map and parking information, see our <a href="http://www.khs.org.au/contact-us/" target="_blank">Contact page</a>.</span></p>KHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16004142294346941011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637148928035795497.post-28374741747239550622023-06-04T16:34:00.000+10:002023-06-04T16:34:18.544+10:00June 2023 General Meeting - Saturday 17 June<p> </p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">Guest Speaker:<br />Dick Whitaker</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNwMwwY3oNccVUFTMAmAuxFNqIcvBWbDZUc5wpOYTdgGiMnwLmkoCA8qgvRHYeZCvXq7UucK6ni5PuHe6XBnlaLaAhwTGD0bJwCarSRSweJa_iQyBzKHpjapmp8hcdOrNn3ERi6l0qxuH3fVS73PMrBB_xHDT4V-rbzi5mTGlBAfrwdTNulqSHrAjx_g/s1200/DickWhitaker%20facebook.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="628" data-original-width="1200" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNwMwwY3oNccVUFTMAmAuxFNqIcvBWbDZUc5wpOYTdgGiMnwLmkoCA8qgvRHYeZCvXq7UucK6ni5PuHe6XBnlaLaAhwTGD0bJwCarSRSweJa_iQyBzKHpjapmp8hcdOrNn3ERi6l0qxuH3fVS73PMrBB_xHDT4V-rbzi5mTGlBAfrwdTNulqSHrAjx_g/s320/DickWhitaker%20facebook.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Join us in Gordon Library Meeting Room 1<br /></span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">at </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">2 pm on Saturday 17 June 2023<br /></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b>when Dick Whitaker presents...</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>The Story of Surry Hills</i></b></span></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Our guest speaker will be KHS member, author and renowned meteorologist, Dick Whitaker.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Always a popular guest speaker, Dick returns with a tale of the changing fortunes of this early inner suburb – from colonial farms and country estates to rapid overdevelopment, followed by a lengthy slump to slum status, and then a return to desirability over the past 50 years.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>About Dick Whitaker</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">After graduating from Monash University in Science in 1968, Dick was conscripted and served two years in the Army, ending his military career as an infantry junior officer with 5th Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">He joined the Bureau of Meteorology soon after and began a public service career that would last some thirty-one years. Dick left the Bureau in 2002, but never lost the “weather bug” and came out of retirement to begin his own meteorological consultancy business. He was Chief Meteorologist with Sky News Weather up until 2016 and appeared regularly on radio and television.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Dick is an experienced lecturer and has delivered numerous presentations on history and the weather to such groups as Probus, Rotary, Libraries, U3A, bushfire brigades, historical societies, schools and business groups.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Dick is very interested in history and meteorological education, particularly through television, radio, and books, and has been author, co-author and consultant editor of seventeen books about the weather, including publications for Time-Life and Reader’s Digest.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>His latest book is <i>From Gods to Gigabytes – A Brief History of Weather Forecasting</i>. Signed copies will be available for $25 (cash only, so please try to bring the exact amount).</b></span></p><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><p>The venue is Gordon Library Meeting Room No. 1, in the Old Gordon Public School, which adjoins the Gordon Library, 799 Pacific Highway, Gordon (corner Pacific Highway and Park Avenue).</p><p>It’s just a 5-minute walk from Gordon Station.</p><p>For a map and parking information, <a href="https://www.khs.org.au/contact-us/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">see our Contact page</a>.</p></span></div>KHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16004142294346941011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637148928035795497.post-72991686873699263162023-05-05T17:36:00.002+10:002023-05-05T17:37:10.684+10:00May 2023 General Meeting - Saturday 20 May<p> </p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">Guest Speaker:<br />Paul Ashton</span></h2><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh2KLO_-U8GW5zKAWsQJZMtRvCt1TQA3E9_uBFY4nQGMfeKt3q1YDohJ-HEOrXLH6Rh2fxJzDoVjzAS-e0JL-8-VQPiL36J8FIZTcARNM5uPYvdA7E6s-7tVUXy2VWYR0IcNL65_wqdyeZNQ4WVVwKlRfINDthFj4salUN0oxUWmc0sPxDI0pfylsESA/s630/Paul%20Ashton%20Newsletter%20photo.jpg"><img border="0" data-original-height="628" data-original-width="630" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh2KLO_-U8GW5zKAWsQJZMtRvCt1TQA3E9_uBFY4nQGMfeKt3q1YDohJ-HEOrXLH6Rh2fxJzDoVjzAS-e0JL-8-VQPiL36J8FIZTcARNM5uPYvdA7E6s-7tVUXy2VWYR0IcNL65_wqdyeZNQ4WVVwKlRfINDthFj4salUN0oxUWmc0sPxDI0pfylsESA/w200-h199/Paul%20Ashton%20Newsletter%20photo.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Join us in Gordon Library Meeting Room 1<br /></span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">at </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">2 pm on Saturday 20 May 2023<br /></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b>when Paul Ashton presents...</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>Sydney's Planning History: from Go to Woe?</i></b></span></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">On Saturday 20 May 2023 our guest speaker will be distinguished academic and public historian, Professor Paul Ashton PHA FRSN, author of <i>The Accidental City: Planning Sydney Since 1788</i>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Paul will present <i>Sydney's Planning History: from Go to Woe?</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Sydney has been described as an 'accidental city', one with a planning history characterised by opportunistic development and disjointed or abortive attempts at holistic planning.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">At the first Australian Town Planning Conference and Exhibition held in Adelaide in 1917, J.D. Fitzgerald – politician and leading town planning advocate – lamented that Sydney was <i>'a city without a plan, save whatever planning was due to the errant goat. Wherever this animal made a track through the bush'</i>, he observed, <i>'there are the streets of today'</i>. Despite attempts by colonial governors back to Arthur Phillip to regulate urban growth, Sydney grew <i>'like Topsy'</i>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>About Paul Ashton</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Professor Paul Ashton PHA FRSN is an adjunct at the University of Technology Sydney, where he co-established the Australian Centre for Public History in 1999; at Macquarie University; and at the University of Canberra.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Co-founder and editor of the journal <i>Public History Review</i>, he has authored, co-authored and edited over forty books. These include a history of town planning in Sydney – <i>The Accidental City: Planning Sydney Since 1788</i> (Hale & Iremonger); <i>Once Upon a Time: Australian Writers on Using the Past</i> (Australian Scholarly Publishing); and <i>What is Public History Globally? Working with the Past in the Present</i> (Bloomsbury).</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">As always, please <a href="https://www.khs.org.au/events/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">keep an eye on our website</a> in case of any last-minute changes.</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><p>The venue is Gordon Library Meeting Room No. 1, in the Old Gordon Public School, which adjoins the Gordon Library, 799 Pacific Highway, Gordon (corner Pacific Highway and Park Avenue).</p><p>It’s just a 5-minute walk from Gordon Station.</p><p>For a map and parking information, <a href="https://www.khs.org.au/contact-us/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">see our Contact page</a>.</p></span></div>KHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16004142294346941011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637148928035795497.post-13047288909299053192023-04-01T17:57:00.002+11:002023-04-01T17:57:10.837+11:00April 2023 General Meeting - Saturday 15 April<p> </p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">Guest Speaker:<br />Denis Smith, OAM</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsOdc4yGxZOgbcAAkeMohEKbOHPggaxLQfIJex3NXh3t355Gvy4Qr_OKZuwn-80ZK1ktq-XmO-VWEXxr349Z2JQ87UkmMi3MzUOuCiwuuxe0DX3WD51JA9YtLsF3HFztPLds6CTFEQ7L0OyQX1uO8R9nqiEHNzW9e350WaJ-grdSLqBZ09gQm_zm3-7A/s1182/Sunderland%20Flying%20Boat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="662" data-original-width="1182" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsOdc4yGxZOgbcAAkeMohEKbOHPggaxLQfIJex3NXh3t355Gvy4Qr_OKZuwn-80ZK1ktq-XmO-VWEXxr349Z2JQ87UkmMi3MzUOuCiwuuxe0DX3WD51JA9YtLsF3HFztPLds6CTFEQ7L0OyQX1uO8R9nqiEHNzW9e350WaJ-grdSLqBZ09gQm_zm3-7A/s320/Sunderland%20Flying%20Boat.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Join us in Gordon Library Meeting Room 1<br /></span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">at </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">2 pm on Saturday 15 April 2023<br /></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b>when Denis Smith presents...</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i><b>The Mighty Sunderland Flying Boats – in War and Peace</b></i></span></span></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Denis' interest in Sunderland flying boats was through his uncle Percy Smith, who was in the RAAF from 1938. In 1939 just prior to WWII, his uncle was part of the RAAF 10 Squadron who went to England to fly nine brand new Sunderlands back to Australia, where they were to be stored at Rathmines near Newcastle.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">War broke out just as they arrived in England, so Australia loaned all nine Sunderlands and their crews to RAF Coastal Command, where they would seek and destroy U-boats, mainly in the North Atlantic. Denis will show actual film footage of the crew arriving in England, flying Sunderlands and sinking U-boats.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">In peace time, flying boats operated from Rose Bay. A trans-Tasman service began in April 1940 which, at its peak, saw a fleet of four Sandringhams making the seven hour crossing to Auckland. Services to Lord Howe Island, Fiji and Tahiti were introduced using Sandringhams, Hythes, Solents, Sunderlands and Catalinas.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">The final commercial flight from Rose Bay – an Ansett service to Lord Howe Island – left on 10th September 1974, closing a brief but important chapter in Australia’s aviation history. The site of the Rose Bay flying boat terminal is today used by a company offering joy rides in a float plane.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">As always, please <a href="https://www.khs.org.au/events/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">keep an eye on our website</a> in case of any last-minute changes.</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><p>The venue is Gordon Library Meeting Room No. 1, in the Old Gordon Public School, which adjoins the Gordon Library, 799 Pacific Highway, Gordon (corner Pacific Highway and Park Avenue).</p><p>It’s just a 5-minute walk from Gordon Station.</p><p>For a map and parking information, <a href="https://www.khs.org.au/contact-us/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">see our Contact page</a>.</p></span></div>KHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16004142294346941011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637148928035795497.post-39807385116900790762023-03-03T12:27:00.001+11:002023-03-03T12:27:24.286+11:00Saturday 18 March 2023 - Members Forum<p> </p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; text-align: left;">Join us in Gordon Library Meeting Room 1, </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; text-align: left;">at </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; text-align: left;">2 pm on Saturday 18 March 2023,</span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b> for our Annual Members Forum - this year's topic... </b></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><i><u>The ‘OMG’ Factor</u>!</i></span></h2><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Remember finding out something during your history research… or reading and thinking <b><i>OMG: Oh My Gosh, how amazing!</i></b> Or hearing about others’ unexpected discoveries which surprised you as well? Our Members Forum is your chance to tell others about one of these ‘oh my gosh’ moments – as well as to share in others’ OMG moments!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Members will have 5 minutes to tell us about something you discovered that made it an OMG moment. If you wish, bring along a few illustrations on a USB stick or an item you want to talk about. The aim is for a short, relaxed chat about things of historical interest among friends. If it’s relevant to local Ku-ring-gai history, all the better!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">To take part, email Judith at <a href="mailto:secretary@khs.org.au">secretary@khs.org.au</a> giving the title of your presentation. You can volunteer to talk on the day, but times will be allocated on a first in first served basis.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">We look forward to hearing <i>your </i>‘OMG’!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">As always, please <a href="https://www.khs.org.au/events/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">keep an eye on our website</a> in case of any last-minute changes.</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><p>The venue is Gordon Library Meeting Room No. 1, in the Old Gordon Public School, which adjoins the Gordon Library, 799 Pacific Highway, Gordon (corner Pacific Highway and Park Avenue).</p><p>It’s just a 5-minute walk from Gordon Station.</p><p>For a map and parking information, <a href="https://www.khs.org.au/contact-us/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">see our Contact page</a>.</p></span></div>KHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16004142294346941011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637148928035795497.post-5142490245105118402023-02-03T17:32:00.000+11:002023-02-03T17:32:49.428+11:00February 2023 General Meeting - Saturday 18 February<p> </p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">Guest Speaker:<br />John Ramsland</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitz8yLlzJ39mczKq0SunkId-_PSfTSxooD-ahcMeLGA3H2ezDdkckjUJfrZPWVUMj1Hr5SNCpVjIomJQbtlYnR9psAWYYrHLFX3XRpurQ-trPc7jht4k6ipsW5FUUd5OhTRaEOb14qkW8B8UmYtE-4U-ZW113yfbll9rXMdk6O37s4PPs6S46GqxrISQ/s634/John%20Ramsland.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="624" data-original-width="634" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitz8yLlzJ39mczKq0SunkId-_PSfTSxooD-ahcMeLGA3H2ezDdkckjUJfrZPWVUMj1Hr5SNCpVjIomJQbtlYnR9psAWYYrHLFX3XRpurQ-trPc7jht4k6ipsW5FUUd5OhTRaEOb14qkW8B8UmYtE-4U-ZW113yfbll9rXMdk6O37s4PPs6S46GqxrISQ/w200-h197/John%20Ramsland.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Join us in Gordon Library Meeting Room 1, </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">at </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">2 pm on Saturday 18 February 2023,</span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b> when John Ramsland presents...</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><i>Peter Finch – Australia’s Player King</i></b></span></span></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Our guest speaker will be Em. Prof. John Ramsland</span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">, OAM, FACE, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Newcastle.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">John’s latest research examines the actor’s troubled formative years at Mosman and Greenwich Point, followed by his rapid rise to fame in radio drama, on stage and in feature films, and his later career as an international star.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>About John Ramsland</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">John was born in Manly in 1942 and educated at Manly Boys High School, Bathurst Teachers College, and the Universities of New England, Sydney and Newcastle. He is the author of many historical books, book chapters, journal articles, conference papers and press features. In 2003, he became Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Newcastle after serving there as Dean of the Faculty of Education, and later, Dean of the Faculty of Arts.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">John’s latest book is <i>Rendezvous With Death – Anzac Stories of the Great War</i>.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">As always, please <a href="https://www.khs.org.au/events/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">keep an eye on our website</a> in case of any last-minute changes.</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><p>The venue is Gordon Library Meeting Room No. 1, in the Old Gordon Public School, which adjoins the Gordon Library, 799 Pacific Highway, Gordon (corner Pacific Highway and Park Avenue).</p><p>It’s just a 5-minute walk from Gordon Station.</p><p>For a map and parking information, <a href="https://www.khs.org.au/contact-us/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">see our Contact page</a>.</p></span></div>KHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16004142294346941011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637148928035795497.post-34623782439162960842023-01-06T10:17:00.004+11:002023-01-15T16:50:52.635+11:00January 2023 General Meeting - Saturday 21 January<p> </p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">Guest Speaker:<br />Jeff FitzGerald</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtjpdKilwR6mr_plW8pdPBq_n5NbnmWcEYGTJEXfdt_VeFCOjiL4mUZQVKZrGY7-mG_n2TOXvRYPNqWJpGY1m3CZdaDfBfeSjOJASm_D9XohUTUiK2UM5gpo5Up3201GKPiSJ7zrkkTGMcSRr9XWV2vKJXqFx6U7WWGr6ac4hDQhBHwwPzf8ukZvinoQ/s1078/Movies_0001.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="695" data-original-width="1078" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtjpdKilwR6mr_plW8pdPBq_n5NbnmWcEYGTJEXfdt_VeFCOjiL4mUZQVKZrGY7-mG_n2TOXvRYPNqWJpGY1m3CZdaDfBfeSjOJASm_D9XohUTUiK2UM5gpo5Up3201GKPiSJ7zrkkTGMcSRr9XWV2vKJXqFx6U7WWGr6ac4hDQhBHwwPzf8ukZvinoQ/w320-h206/Movies_0001.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Join us in Gordon Library Meeting Room 1, </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">at </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">2 pm on Saturday 21st January 2023,</span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><b> when Jeff FitzGerald presents...</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Postcards - Moments in Time and Windows into History</i></b></span></div></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Our guest speaker will be Jeff FitzGerald, Vice-President of the New South Wales Postcard Collectors Society.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Jeff has been collecting historic postcards since 1982, when quite by chance he stumbled across a bundle in an antique shop in Tokyo. His extensive collection reveals our social history, consisting of ‘postcard moments in time’ depicting a wide range of aspects such as socialising, working, recreation, rural life and industry; as well as depictions of Aboriginal people and what this tells us about mainstream Australia of the time. They also contain the work of noted artists who illustrated postcards in the early 1900s, including May Gibbs, Norman Lindsay, Ida Rentoul Outhwaite and more.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">As always, please <a href="https://www.khs.org.au/events/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">keep an eye on our website</a> in case of any last-minute changes.</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><p>The venue is Gordon Library Meeting Room No. 1, in the Old Gordon Public School, which adjoins the Gordon Library, 799 Pacific Highway, Gordon (corner Pacific Highway and Park Avenue).</p><p>It’s just a 5-minute walk from Gordon Station.</p><p>For a map and parking information, <a href="https://www.khs.org.au/contact-us/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">see our Contact page</a>.</p></span></div>KHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16004142294346941011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637148928035795497.post-44884428135445977922022-11-07T09:30:00.000+11:002022-11-07T09:30:35.510+11:00November 2022 General Meeting - Saturday 19th November<p> </p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">Guest Speaker:<br />David Hunt</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOqWtv2qyCJ9XWcJS9dyz3MSREn932QfKJracGLJzrA6AS1wJLASHUfUaiWD55wRwFQoeN6p8zisPwOmP5cR22kbIgra3v2a-2OAHd6SDEEThWQU354IXc-QExOficctFxEl8afyGyYpXfcMNJCF2tRNnf1t9wsMdTEoiP438M-M3zKSfSRrZA-VIAWw/s628/David-Hunt-Girt-Nation-book.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="628" data-original-width="411" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOqWtv2qyCJ9XWcJS9dyz3MSREn932QfKJracGLJzrA6AS1wJLASHUfUaiWD55wRwFQoeN6p8zisPwOmP5cR22kbIgra3v2a-2OAHd6SDEEThWQU354IXc-QExOficctFxEl8afyGyYpXfcMNJCF2tRNnf1t9wsMdTEoiP438M-M3zKSfSRrZA-VIAWw/s320/David-Hunt-Girt-Nation-book.jpg" width="209" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-weight: bold;">Join us in Gordon Library Meeting Room 1, </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;">at </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;">2 pm on Saturday 19th November 2022,</span><span style="color: #38761d;"><b> when David Hunt presents...</b><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><b>Girt Nation - The Unauthorised History of Australia, Volume 3</b></i></span></div></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Another rollicking ride with author David Hunt, as he speaks about <i>Girt Nation</i>, the third volume in his prize-winning <i>'Unauthorised History of Australia'</i> series. The series examines the federation of the Australian colonies into the revered nation we are today; and the key political, social and economic reforms of late nineteenth century Australia.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">David unashamedly tramples tall poppies of the past in charting Australia’s transformation from aspiration to nation – an epic tale of charlatans and costermongers, of bush bards (and even bushier beards!), of workers, and of women who just weren’t going to take it anymore!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Thrill as <b>Jandamarra </b>leads the <b>Bunuba </b>against Western Australia... gasp as Essendon trainer <b>Carl von Ledebur</b> injects his charges with crushed dog and goat testicles... weep as <b>Scott Morrison’s</b> communist great-great-aunt <b>Mary Gilmore</b> holds a hose in New Australia... and marvel at how <b>Labor</b>, a party that spent a quarter of a century infighting over how to spell its own name, ever rose to power!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i>Girt Nation</i> also introduces <b>Alfred Deakin</b> - the Liberal necromancer whose dead advisors made Australia a better place to live in; <b>Sir Henry Parkes</b> - Australia's greatest lothario; <b>Banjo Paterson</b> - the jihadist who called on God and the Prophet to drive the Australian infidels from the Sudan; the <b>Crutchy Push</b> - Australia's most infamous all-amputee street gang against the conventionally limbed; <b>Catherine Helen Spence</b> - the feminist polymath who envisaged a utopian future of free contraceptives, easy divorce and immigration restrictions ‘to prevent the Chinese coming to destroy all we have struggled for’... plus a cast of Australian women who made Australia a better place for everyone!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Yes, you'll meet a colourful cast of characters from the formative period of Australia’s nationhood, and guess what - books will be available to purchase! $20 for <i>Girt </i>and <i>True Girt</i>; $25 for <i>Girt Nation</i>; and $15 for Hunt's kids' picture books.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Find out more, if you dare, at <a href="https://davidhuntwriter.com/book/girt-nation-the-unauthorised-history-of-australia-volume-3/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">David Hunt’s website</a>...</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">As always, please <a href="https://www.khs.org.au/events/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">keep an eye on our website</a> in case of any last-minute changes.</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><p>The venue is Gordon Library Meeting Room No. 1, in the Old Gordon Public School, which adjoins the Gordon Library, 799 Pacific Highway, Gordon (corner Pacific Highway and Park Avenue).</p><p>It’s just a 5-minute walk from Gordon Station.</p><p>For a map and parking information, <a href="https://www.khs.org.au/contact-us/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">see our Contact page</a>.</p></span></div>KHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16004142294346941011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637148928035795497.post-8127501338859773752022-10-01T10:38:00.000+10:002022-10-01T10:38:52.921+10:00AGM - Saturday 15th October 2022<p> </p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">AGM, with Guest Speaker:<br />Patrick Dodd</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW7ulxdNG5SPpnHo2YoTSnNdHC8PnQ9LymP3bQD-xHSAkbvv5phLuC1GrxGdkMB7Q5QTyEags-h3soj2glcX7lX3WR7emtjSr0vkza-meiuQN2kWKBSByr_ND-RwRTJP3bsGFCwYY56OD1bI2Wy7_FgEeZpZv4KHIuniZyfudJVHWE0k89sW-j9xH6AA/s645/Patrick%20Dodd.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="628" data-original-width="645" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW7ulxdNG5SPpnHo2YoTSnNdHC8PnQ9LymP3bQD-xHSAkbvv5phLuC1GrxGdkMB7Q5QTyEags-h3soj2glcX7lX3WR7emtjSr0vkza-meiuQN2kWKBSByr_ND-RwRTJP3bsGFCwYY56OD1bI2Wy7_FgEeZpZv4KHIuniZyfudJVHWE0k89sW-j9xH6AA/w200-h195/Patrick%20Dodd.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-weight: bold;">Join us in Gordon Library Meeting Room 1, </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;">at </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;">2 pm on Saturday 15th October 2022.</span><span style="color: #38761d;"><b> This meeting will start with our AGM at 2 pm, after which Patrick Dodd presents...</b><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><b>“The Holtermann Collection”</b></i></span></div></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">In 1951, Keast Burke, editor of Australasian Photo Review, enquired with the Mitchell Library about Bernhardt Holtermann, a name associated with several nineteenth century panoramas he’d seen in the Library. It transpired that Holtermann’s daughter-in-law, Mary Holtermann, lived in Chatswood. Recovered from her garden shed later that year were 3500 glass plate negatives in cedar boxes and smaller ones in lacquered tins, all wonderfully undisturbed for nearly 80 years.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The negatives were donated to the Mitchell Library in 1952 by Bernhardt Holtermann's grandson, Bernhard, and became known as the Holtermann Collection. The find proved to be the most important photographic documentation of goldfields life in Australia, and was included on the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World register in May 2013.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Join us for what is sure to be a very informed talk from Ku-ring-gai Historical Society member Patrick Dodd. Patrick is the Founder and President of the Macquarie Society in Australia; and a Volunteer Guide at the Australian National Maritime Museum on HM Bark Endeavour. He is also a Volunteer Guide and Public Speaker at the State Library of NSW on History and Heritage tours.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">As always, please <a href="https://www.khs.org.au/events/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">keep an eye on our website</a> in case of any last-minute changes.</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><p>The venue is Gordon Library Meeting Room No. 1, in the Old Gordon Public School, which adjoins the Gordon Library, 799 Pacific Highway, Gordon (corner Pacific Highway and Park Avenue).</p><p>It’s just a 5-minute walk from Gordon Station.</p><p>For a map and parking information, <a href="https://www.khs.org.au/contact-us/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">see our Contact page</a>.</p></span></div>KHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16004142294346941011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637148928035795497.post-8043599153551237102022-09-02T13:05:00.001+10:002022-09-02T13:05:26.231+10:00September 2022 General Meeting - Saturday 17th September<p> </p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">Guest Speaker:<br />Ian Burnet</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk3LjTODg9K4hzpi6DUFSclFppryDnziRrK_IfEnirlhZz6Lzv5c2NbcKtAOBXcx-bUgklgg3CZc5-LIsDtYJmAGMn-vqD63N9sJPElJdG-4F79vgghvmTjKzJF7qKDOecl2uzgdOkFthAfFuf6YCD98pBl7DwIWtdBDpo0TytaLGdrG8WpXsYKuqiHg/s546/Ian%20Burnet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="546" data-original-width="445" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk3LjTODg9K4hzpi6DUFSclFppryDnziRrK_IfEnirlhZz6Lzv5c2NbcKtAOBXcx-bUgklgg3CZc5-LIsDtYJmAGMn-vqD63N9sJPElJdG-4F79vgghvmTjKzJF7qKDOecl2uzgdOkFthAfFuf6YCD98pBl7DwIWtdBDpo0TytaLGdrG8WpXsYKuqiHg/w163-h200/Ian%20Burnet.jpg" width="163" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-weight: bold;">Join us in Gordon Library Meeting Room 1, </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;">at </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;">2 pm on Saturday 17th September 2022,</span><span style="color: #38761d;"><b> when Ian Burnet presents...</b><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><b>“The Tasman Map”</b></i></span></div></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Our September guest speaker is author, historian and voyager Ian Burnet, who will present <b><i>The Tasman Map - the Dutch East India Company and the first Dutch discoveries of Australia</i></b>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Every visitor who passes through the vestibule of the Mitchell Library stops to admire the magnificent marble mosaic of the Tasman Map, which fills the entire vestibule floor.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">This story of the first Dutch voyages to discover Australia is set against the background of the struggle of the newly formed Dutch Republic to gain its independence from the Kingdom of Spain, and the struggle of the Dutch East India Company for trade supremacy in the East Indies against its Portuguese, Spanish and English rivals.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">From 1606 to 1644, based on sixteen separate discoveries, the first map of Australia took shape. The Tasman Map shows a recognizable outline of the north, west and south coasts of Australia, that was not to change for another 125 years until James Cook charted the east coast in 1770.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">In 1925 and 1933 the Mitchell Library acquired the Tasman Huydecoper Journal and the Tasman Bonaparte Map. The fascinating story of how the library managed to acquire these treasures of Dutch exploration and cartography brings new recognition to these icons of both Dutch and Australian history!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>About Ian Burnet</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Ian grew up in South Gippsland and graduated with a degree in Geology and Geophysics from the University of Melbourne. He first went to work in Indonesia in 1968 as a young geologist and became fascinated by the diverse cultures and rich history of the archipelago. Ian has organised many sailing voyages around the Spice Islands for those interested in exploring the eastern archipelago, sailing in a traditional Indonesian wooden schooner.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">He has spent thirty years living, working and travelling in Indonesia and is fascinated by the diverse history and culture of the archipelago. This is reflected in his books Spice Islands; East Indies; Archipelago - A Journey Across Indonesia; Where Australia Collides with Asia; The Tasman Map - The Biography of a Map; and his latest, Joseph Conrad’s Eastern Voyages.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">A review of The Tasman Map states “Ian Burnet in this stunning volume brings alive the many voyages of discovery that linked the exploration and Dutch conquest of Indonesia to a growing awareness on the part of the Dutch of the great, but as yet unknown, land to the south”.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Ian's website is <a href="https://www.ianburnetbooks.com">www.ianburnetbooks.com</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Join us in person for what is sure to be a fascinating presentation on Saturday 17th September!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">As always, please <a href="https://www.khs.org.au/events/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">keep an eye on our website</a> in case of any last-minute changes.</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><p>The venue is Gordon Library Meeting Room No. 1, in the Old Gordon Public School, which adjoins the Gordon Library, 799 Pacific Highway, Gordon (corner Pacific Highway and Park Avenue).</p><p>It’s just a 5-minute walk from Gordon Station.</p><p>For a map and parking information, <a href="https://www.khs.org.au/contact-us/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">see our Contact page</a>.</p></span></div>KHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16004142294346941011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637148928035795497.post-25832748534587334882022-08-06T12:42:00.001+10:002022-08-06T12:42:06.947+10:00August 2022 General Meeting - Saturday 20th August<p> </p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">Guest Speaker:<br />David Rosenberg</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2lHWgeZxva_VR84GlaIPKwuM1QrWsbtnmX9Pp3vD1f2W5zj04xuAHY9ZKqphtha058ZzVXG2aqIJ66OhOegtx75CXdyJ70Ot4sU1S2Ce1ufdhzmpFjzGLgAiWJ4FCm_1ifcwwDYC46ToVkwfQlHClUqy2lxlwwifIyDwP5yIC6_TwP0Ba5EswsYc-Vw/s751/David%20Rosenberg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="751" data-original-width="500" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2lHWgeZxva_VR84GlaIPKwuM1QrWsbtnmX9Pp3vD1f2W5zj04xuAHY9ZKqphtha058ZzVXG2aqIJ66OhOegtx75CXdyJ70Ot4sU1S2Ce1ufdhzmpFjzGLgAiWJ4FCm_1ifcwwDYC46ToVkwfQlHClUqy2lxlwwifIyDwP5yIC6_TwP0Ba5EswsYc-Vw/w133-h200/David%20Rosenberg.jpg" width="133" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-weight: bold;">Join us in Gordon Library Meeting Room 1, </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;">at </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;">2 pm on Saturday 20th August 2022,</span><span style="color: #38761d;"><b> when David Rosenberg presents...</b><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><b>“Pine Gap: The Inside Story of the NSA in Australia”</b></i></span></div></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>Our August guest speaker is author and US spy, David Rosenberg.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">In 1966, Australia and the US signed a treaty that allowed the establishment of a jointly-run satellite tracking station, just south of Alice Springs. For more than fifty years it has operated in a shroud of secrecy, and been the target of much public and political controversy.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">The intelligence collection mission at Pine Gap, and the partnership between Australia and the United States, has made Pine Gap the most important satellite ground site in the Intelligence Community.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">David Rosenberg – a US high-tech spy who worked at Pine Gap for 18 years – was the first to speak out to give an insider’s account of what happens behind those locked gates in the middle of the Australian desert. When he left in 2008, he was the United States government’s longest serving technical liaison officer in Australia.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">In his book, and in his presentation, David details his career with an American intelligence agency during a tumultuous period in history that covered the terms of three American Presidents, four Australian Prime Ministers, the end of the Cold War, a peace treaty between Israel and Jordan, two wars in Iraq and genocide in Rwanda, as well as the ‘War Against Terror’ and the emergence of North Korea as a nuclear-armed nation.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;">Join us in person on Saturday 20th August for this top secret presentation!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">As always, please <a href="https://www.khs.org.au/events/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">keep an eye on our website</a> in case of any last-minute changes.</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><p>The venue is Gordon Library Meeting Room No. 1, in the Old Gordon Public School, which adjoins the Gordon Library, 799 Pacific Highway, Gordon (corner Pacific Highway and Park Avenue).</p><p>It’s just a 5-minute walk from Gordon Station.</p><p>For a map and parking information, <a href="https://www.khs.org.au/contact-us/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">see our Contact page</a>.</p></span></div>KHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16004142294346941011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637148928035795497.post-48489065057398435012022-07-02T13:49:00.003+10:002022-07-02T13:49:57.650+10:00July 2022 General Meeting - Saturday 16th July<p> </p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">Guest Speaker:<br />Ian Thompson</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-VMIvdeYdyJIBVlWCrF00bS-FPnOdF5kPbc6RxPjSUh-EKGKZI2vgoSRJcIhXmgMitu3z3Jko34XrJhxcAO3FehmX0ZJyopcGo1MB898NhTRZpupiOKYSPjVu18fyRoCz_d60tZup1L17fXft97oOLQLORMcgi-FsEkSZzjwiO63qPr2QKgdyxGG50Q/s586/Ian%20Thompson.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="586" data-original-width="426" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-VMIvdeYdyJIBVlWCrF00bS-FPnOdF5kPbc6RxPjSUh-EKGKZI2vgoSRJcIhXmgMitu3z3Jko34XrJhxcAO3FehmX0ZJyopcGo1MB898NhTRZpupiOKYSPjVu18fyRoCz_d60tZup1L17fXft97oOLQLORMcgi-FsEkSZzjwiO63qPr2QKgdyxGG50Q/w146-h200/Ian%20Thompson.png" width="146" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-weight: bold;">Join us in Gordon Library Meeting Room 1, </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;">at </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;">2 pm on Saturday 16th July 2022,</span><span style="color: #38761d;"><b> when Ian Thompson presents...</b><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><b>“More Iconic Australian Inventions”</b></i></span></div></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Every day, throughout the world, over a billion people rely heavily on Australian inventions. Every time they drive a car, fly, eat or communicate, there’s a good chance it’s due to Aussies!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">We all know <i>some </i>of the great and iconic inventions by Australians – the Victa lawnmower, the Hills Hoist, the wine cask bladder, Vegemite... but our guest speaker, Ian Thompson, knows a whole lot more!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Ian will take us through the people and science behind some more iconic inventions and innovations, from colonial to contemporary times – so if you missed Ian’s first talk, catch up with this one – there’s so much more than the Hills Hoist and the Victa!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>About Ian Thompson</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">After graduating in Chemistry in 1969, Ian worked in Sydney as an Industrial Research Chemist for over 20 years, concentrating on developing products to control insect pests that affect crops, farm animals and pets.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">For the past 25 years, and before retirement in 2008, Ian then worked as a Research Scientist in the area of Urban Entomology, developing products for controlling insect pests and other critters that invade the home - in particular, those that can carry disease, such as mosquitoes, cockroaches, houseflies and the like.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">During the past 10 years of this research Ian became involved in the drafting of patents for urban pest control - and he now has six to his name!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ian regularly presents to Sydney U3A, Probus and other volunteer organisations. His leisure interests include photography and bushwalking.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">As always, please <a href="https://www.khs.org.au/events/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">keep an eye on our website</a> in case of any last-minute changes.</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><p>The venue is Gordon Library Meeting Room No. 1, in the Old Gordon Public School, which adjoins the Gordon Library, 799 Pacific Highway, Gordon (corner Pacific Highway and Park Avenue).</p><p>It’s just a 5-minute walk from Gordon Station.</p><p>For a map and parking information, <a href="https://www.khs.org.au/contact-us/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">see our Contact page</a>.</p></span></div>KHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16004142294346941011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637148928035795497.post-29545316062396914762022-06-04T12:23:00.001+10:002022-06-04T12:23:13.873+10:00June 2022 General Meeting - Saturday 18th June<p> </p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">Guest Speaker:<br />Dr Reinhard Ronnebeck</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT5lWpid0mKzWWo2MesC8PVwfFq48f-d75ina3DP-848v3QPOu6G7_2XX0coXBa7nMwX8fw0IiOAd7eS5KcGxFMAFrcXF5QjYWSfJDrHTgcK36FX2C2ji4CrPaPR_bCX_Bv2bbGPwCZkvHgSc6aeXjloYBAqj_8uCa6fPDyA2B3-dEU4rtTdz7QPLMdA/s700/Reinhard%20Ronnebeck%20at%20van%20Gogh%20Museum.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="700" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT5lWpid0mKzWWo2MesC8PVwfFq48f-d75ina3DP-848v3QPOu6G7_2XX0coXBa7nMwX8fw0IiOAd7eS5KcGxFMAFrcXF5QjYWSfJDrHTgcK36FX2C2ji4CrPaPR_bCX_Bv2bbGPwCZkvHgSc6aeXjloYBAqj_8uCa6fPDyA2B3-dEU4rtTdz7QPLMdA/s320/Reinhard%20Ronnebeck%20at%20van%20Gogh%20Museum.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;">Dr Reinhard Ronnebeck at the van Gogh Museum</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-weight: bold;">Join us in Gordon Library Meeting Room 1, </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;">at </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;">2 pm on Saturday 18th June 2022,</span><span style="color: #38761d;"><b> when Dr Reinhard Ronnebeck presents...<br /></b></span></span></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><b>“Grace Cossington Smith - a Ku-Ring-Gai local”</b></i></span></div></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Reinhard’s talk will explore the life and work of Grace Cossington Smith (1892-1984) – a quiet pioneer of modernism who practised her art in Turramurra.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Many of her scenes give a glimpse of the ordinary suburban home of her time: still lives, doorways and window sills. She also painted important events, such as the World Wars and the arrival of the Prince of Wales in Sydney, which show a broader view of what was happening in Australia and the world at the time.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Her paintings of the area around Turramurra show the development of the northern suburbs, and her paintings of the Sydney Harbour Bridge as it was being built are some of the best painted at the turn of the century.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>About Dr Reinhard Ronnebeck</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Reinhard was born, grew up and went to school in Berlin. His tertiary education took place in the USA and he holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology. Before his retirement he was head of the Department of Psychology at Royal North Shore Hospital, and Principal Clinical Psychologist with the NSW Department of Health. His book on child psychology, <i>7000 Days</i>, was published by the ABC.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As part of his tertiary education, Reinhard completed several courses in art history, and this has remained a life-long interest. He has made numerous presentations on a variety of artists to the University of the Third Age (U3A) and at the Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts (SMSA).</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">As always, please <a href="https://www.khs.org.au/events/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">keep an eye on our website</a> in case of any last-minute changes.</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><p>The venue is Gordon Library Meeting Room No. 1, in the Old Gordon Public School, which adjoins the Gordon Library, 799 Pacific Highway, Gordon (corner Pacific Highway and Park Avenue).</p><p>It’s just a 5-minute walk from Gordon Station.</p><p>For a map and parking information, <a href="https://www.khs.org.au/contact-us/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">see our Contact page</a>.</p></span></div>KHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16004142294346941011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637148928035795497.post-62504279736716020582022-05-07T10:43:00.000+10:002022-05-07T10:43:04.109+10:00May 2022 General Meeting - Saturday 21st May<p> </p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">Guest Speaker:<br />Margaret Cameron-Ash</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuSGEcFgf9JcFWkUSB3TstbPOk72svTOxPEBxVNw6WyP-22fcGw4Lf4eQu8fJOhD1yn6y54sjhDZFk-siQ-L1KFfc2o8Ma4dvqXBzOzEL7NrpFmy2Rg1QAdQvMESG5DYfKGQLjxvNcBD2P-OLz37jmuVkfy3ousnr-Q5DhZMZuzaBjRsWXm_lapDcUYw/s1086/Margaret%20Cameron-Ash.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="718" data-original-width="1086" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuSGEcFgf9JcFWkUSB3TstbPOk72svTOxPEBxVNw6WyP-22fcGw4Lf4eQu8fJOhD1yn6y54sjhDZFk-siQ-L1KFfc2o8Ma4dvqXBzOzEL7NrpFmy2Rg1QAdQvMESG5DYfKGQLjxvNcBD2P-OLz37jmuVkfy3ousnr-Q5DhZMZuzaBjRsWXm_lapDcUYw/s320/Margaret%20Cameron-Ash.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-weight: bold;">Join us in Gordon Library Meeting Room 1, </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;">at </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;">2 pm on Saturday 21st May 2022,</span><span style="color: #38761d;"><b> when Margaret Cameron-Ash presents </b></span></span></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><b>“Lying for the Admiralty”</b></i></span></div></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Our guest speaker will be </span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Margaret Cameron-Ash, lawyer and former visiting fellow of the University of NSW. Margaret worked and lectured in law in both Sydney and England, after which she embarked on research which included early Australian history, cartography and stories about James Cook.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Margaret examined lots of Cook’s original journals, charts and other information with forensic detail and has produced the book, <i>Lying for the Admiralty</i>, which is richly illustrated with many landscapes, ships, maps and charts. This highly successful book is now in its second printing.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Through meticulous research, Margaret set out to explain how Cook could have overlooked such obvious features as Bass Strait and the entrance to Port Jackson. Her conclusion: he didn’t miss them - he <i>hid </i>them!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Never have Cook’s journals and charts been subjected to such unbiased, forensic examination. His discoveries had to remain secret until Britain could afford to send an occupation force to fortify the place and keep out the French - hence the publication of Cook’s censored journal and charts.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">From the Foreword by John Howard: <i>"The author mounts a strong circumstantial case that Cook both discovered Bass Strait and actually gazed upon Sydney Harbour. Her proposition is that Cook and some of his party walked overland from Botany Bay to the Harbour... She argues that deliberate obfuscation and distortion were tools of trade for the British Admiralty... Such was the colonial rivalry of the time that paranoia about Admiralty leaks were an incentive for deliberate inaccuracies to be included in formal reports of voyages and exploration."</i></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>As always, please <a href="https://www.khs.org.au/events/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">keep an eye on our website</a> in case of any last-minute changes.</b></span><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><p style="text-align: left;">The venue is Gordon Library Meeting Room No. 1, in the Old Gordon Public School, which adjoins the Gordon Library, 799 Pacific Highway, Gordon (corner Pacific Highway and Park Avenue).</p><p style="text-align: left;">It’s just a 5-minute walk from Gordon Station.</p><p style="text-align: left;">For a map and parking information, <a href="https://www.khs.org.au/contact-us/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">see our Contact page</a>.</p></span></div>KHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16004142294346941011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637148928035795497.post-41419129274943076532022-03-25T16:32:00.001+11:002022-03-25T16:44:47.056+11:00April 2022 General Meeting - Saturday 9th April<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><b>Please note:</b> our General Meeting for April is being held on 9th April, which is one week earlier than usual, so that it doesn't coincide with Easter Saturday.</i></span></p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">Guest Speaker:<br />John Ramsland, OAM, FACE</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKeBY3OwsJfPJVvsDaXtRPxJcRbHOoJ2rrrM8uGJ3GNZ-f2BryNQ4jfPnMIWtfpZMrMN9hhZL3JkQmnn3L4yiRWeZWXtanxbnMJY1ssoSH-c9wJADPEhHLMpo65CJA9yGdBCiyVfKlaIjrJ8WBWw4-EESx5Hpr5PAmYZeB7lJdV5U-jd8RReEjPwnVfQ/s380/John%20Ramsland%20bg%20removed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="347" data-original-width="380" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKeBY3OwsJfPJVvsDaXtRPxJcRbHOoJ2rrrM8uGJ3GNZ-f2BryNQ4jfPnMIWtfpZMrMN9hhZL3JkQmnn3L4yiRWeZWXtanxbnMJY1ssoSH-c9wJADPEhHLMpo65CJA9yGdBCiyVfKlaIjrJ8WBWw4-EESx5Hpr5PAmYZeB7lJdV5U-jd8RReEjPwnVfQ/w200-h183/John%20Ramsland%20bg%20removed.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Join us in Gordon Library Meeting Room 1, </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">at </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">2 pm on Saturday 9th April 2022,</span><span style="color: #38761d;"> when John Ramsland presents </span></b></span></span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>“Exciting, Adventurous and Heart-Rending – Rayner Hoff’s Memorial Masterpieces as a Sculptor”</i></b></span></div></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Our guest speaker will be John Ramsland, OAM, FACE, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Newcastle.</span></p><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">As one of the most significant artists in early post-World War I Australia, Hoff translated his sculptural forms into the egalitarian values of Australians – as a neo-heroic race that rivalled the Ancient Greeks!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Authorities agree that Hoff’s innovative work on the Hyde Park Anzac Memorial was his crowning glory. He captured war’s grim, gritty reality in a vast complex visual essay on the entire war. His group sculpture, <i>'Sacrifice'</i>, at the Memorial’s heart, is the greatest achievement of his entire career.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Hoff was one of the rare memorial sculptors to convey a duality of meaning of the relationship of male-female; masculine-feminine; timelessness and modern-ancient; sacred-profane; and past-present-future elements. He expressed both the sacrifice and horror of war on the youthful manhood and womanhood of the nation.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>About John Ramsland</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">John was born in Manly in 1942 and educated at Manly Boys High School, Bathurst Teachers College, and the Universities of New England, Sydney and Newcastle. He is the author of many historical books, book chapters, journal articles, conference papers and press features. In 2003, he became Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Newcastle after serving there as Dean of the Faculty of Education, and later, Dean of the Faculty of Arts.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Book Launch</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Immediately following John Ramsland’s presentation, military historian and battlefield war guide, David Wilson, will launch John’s latest book, <i>'Rendezvous With Death – Anzac Stories of the Great War'</i> (Brolga, 2021) on behalf of Ku-ring-gai Historical Society.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Rendezvous With Death</i> has been described as “an elegantly crafted anthology of epic heroism”. The book’s 564 pages hold many moving stories of men and women caught up in the tragedy of World War I. Each chapter deals with the life of historical figures – known and unknown, celebrated or forgotten – with the final chapter, “Remembrance of Things Past”, being on the life and work of George Rayner Hoff.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">Copies will be available for signing at the special price of $20 – cash only, please, as we do not have credit card facilities.</span></div></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><i style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>As always, please <a href="https://www.khs.org.au/events/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">keep an eye on our website</a> in case of any last-minute changes.</b></i></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><div>The venue is Gordon Library Meeting Room No. 1, in the Old Gordon Public School, which adjoins the Gordon Library, 799 Pacific Highway, Gordon (corner Pacific Highway and Park Avenue).</div><div><br /></div><div>It’s just a 5-minute walk from Gordon Station.</div><div><br /></div><div>For a map and parking information, <a href="https://www.khs.org.au/contact-us/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">see our Contact page</a>.</div></span></div>KHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16004142294346941011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637148928035795497.post-54886463733908404202022-03-21T18:56:00.004+11:002022-03-25T16:45:43.836+11:00April 2022 Family History Group Meeting - Saturday 2nd April<p><br /></p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">Guest Speaker:<br />Patrick Dodd</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiRalBWSfWXQHPopzXJjLv9vWTh3ZW3JI3T3JYMVTXvx6ZI7-b962CSVKDqrwUkbd7kp0cj1K2rE8pf51ZagNm0fnKumXMQVtfLXaEKbL9sM_aoXigZHxqtZCFnJWMJUK5bF1PAszTBPBY642HVfAs9nD1HZ2TS2KcJdG5IJ0vXPMhVrXtrAw5k6bCiVw=s413" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="400" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiRalBWSfWXQHPopzXJjLv9vWTh3ZW3JI3T3JYMVTXvx6ZI7-b962CSVKDqrwUkbd7kp0cj1K2rE8pf51ZagNm0fnKumXMQVtfLXaEKbL9sM_aoXigZHxqtZCFnJWMJUK5bF1PAszTBPBY642HVfAs9nD1HZ2TS2KcJdG5IJ0vXPMhVrXtrAw5k6bCiVw=w194-h200" width="194" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Join us in Gordon Library Meeting Room 1 </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">at </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">2 pm on Saturday 2nd April 2022</span><span style="color: #38761d;"> when Patrick Dodd presents <i>'</i></span></b></span></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><b>The Dreadnought Boys'</b></i></span></span></div></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Patrick Dodd will speak on <i>'The Dreadnought Boys'</i> – a fascinating and also horrifying story of child and youth migration to Australia.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">There were numerous schemes to bring out children and young people to Australia starting in mid-Victorian times. The Dreadnought Scheme was a program designed to promote and assist the migration of British youths willing to become farm workers in Australia. Funds which had been raised by public subscription for the purchase of a battleship were diverted to establish the scheme, when the Commonwealth instead decided to build an Australian Navy.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">On arrival in Australia, the teenage boys were assigned to a state government farm for three months of agricultural training, after which the boys could be sent to work on any farm in the state.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Ku-ring-gai Historical Society member Patrick Dodd will speak about these schemes and the experiences of his late father-in-law, David Hogg, who was a Dreadnought Boy; as well as his own experiences as a ‘Ten Pound Pom’. It’s bound to stimulate plenty of discussion!</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>PLEASE NOTE:</b> The election of the Family History Group Committee will also be held at this meeting. The nomination form has been distributed to members at the same time as the March Newsletter.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><i style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>As always, please <a href="https://www.khs.org.au/events/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">keep an eye on our website</a> in case of any last-minute changes.</b></i></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><div>The venue is Gordon Library Meeting Room No. 1, in the Old Gordon Public School, which adjoins the Gordon Library, 799 Pacific Highway, Gordon (corner Pacific Highway and Park Avenue).</div><div><br /></div><div>It’s just a 5-minute walk from Gordon Station.</div><div><br /></div><div>For a map and parking information, <a href="https://www.khs.org.au/contact-us/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">see our Contact page</a>.</div></span></div>KHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16004142294346941011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4637148928035795497.post-60854712902203331052022-03-06T12:16:00.001+11:002022-03-25T16:46:06.589+11:00March 2022 General Meeting<p> </p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: x-large;">Guest Speaker:<br />David Wilkins, OAM</span></h2><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiriWEvsHBbtgTbbwFqYoQvOVqOncbmmCH_vminjT3zyYYktrZB2No4DUKs3JUMPGat1JJEc65lruu14mCzA0-zfLaLQRAfHz9e6moyEnCewR7fqbaICc_83STX0TJHlBzUD-_-rJcdM5hctt7l45MQ_IsKwAfUwyEV3Uyq9dB1tMA6hFBkkY_BNY77WQ=s517" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="455" data-original-width="517" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiriWEvsHBbtgTbbwFqYoQvOVqOncbmmCH_vminjT3zyYYktrZB2No4DUKs3JUMPGat1JJEc65lruu14mCzA0-zfLaLQRAfHz9e6moyEnCewR7fqbaICc_83STX0TJHlBzUD-_-rJcdM5hctt7l45MQ_IsKwAfUwyEV3Uyq9dB1tMA6hFBkkY_BNY77WQ=w232-h204" width="232" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #38761d;">Join us in Gordon Library Meeting Room 1, </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">at </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">2 pm on Saturday 19th March 2022</span><span style="color: #38761d;"> when David Wilkins, OAM presents <i>"</i></span></b></span></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><b>The Three Vietnam Wars from 1946 to 1975"</b></i></span></span></div></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Military historian and Ku-ring-gai Historical Society member David Wilkins will discuss the causes and impact – and the controversies – of the “American War”; as well as the colonial war that preceded it, and the one that followed.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">He will discuss whether the US strategy in the second war was appropriate or misguided; the fall of Saigon; whether or not it should be regarded as an American defeat; plus the impact of ‘public relations as a principle of war’.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">David graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon, in 1963 and his career in the Australian Regular Army spanned 26 years.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">In 1969-70, as a Captain, he saw active service for 14 months with the 5th Infantry Battalion in the Vietnam War.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">Upon his return from active service, David embarked upon a new career direction in Law.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">He is now fully retired with interests in history and writing, and was involved in the coordination, writing and editing of the four volumes of Ku-ring-gai Historical Society’s celebrated series <i><a href="https://www.khs.org.au/rallying-the-troops/" target="_blank">Rallying The Troops: a World War I Commemoration</a></i>.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">It was for his involvement in <i>Rallying The Troops</i> that in 2019 David was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia “for service to community history”.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>PLEASE NOTE:</b> This meeting will also be our deferred AGM in which we will pass the Minutes of the 2019 AGM; review and endorse the financial statements for the years 2019-20 and 2020-21; appoint the auditor; and receive the President’s Report. The election of Committee members will take place at our usual AGM in the second half of this year.</span></p><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><b>As always, <a href="https://www.khs.org.au/events/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">please keep an eye on our Events page</a> in case of any last-minute changes.</b></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><div>The venue is Gordon Library Meeting Room No. 1, in the Old Gordon Public School, which adjoins the Gordon Library, 799 Pacific Highway, Gordon (corner Pacific Highway and Park Avenue).</div><div><br /></div><div>It’s just a 5-minute walk from Gordon Station.</div><div><br /></div><div>For a map and parking information, <a href="https://www.khs.org.au/contact-us/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">see our Contact page</a>.</div></span></div>KHShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16004142294346941011noreply@blogger.com