Fifty Years Ago in Wagga the BEE GEES featured at the Wagga Leagues Club Cabaret night.
2015 Royal Australian Historical Society Conference
August 4, 2015 by ·
The 2015 RAHS Conference will be held at Bankstown Sports Club on Saturday 24th – Sunday 25th October 2015. Come and explore the importance of migration history, learn skills that will support your history projects and enjoy opportunities to network and share histories with RAHS members and friends.
In the Past from the Daily Advertiser 1st August
August 3, 2015 by ·
Our old photo this week shows the Wagga Saleyards in Travers Street in 1956. Wagga has long been a major stock selling centre. The move from Trail Street to the Bomen Livestock Marketing Centre was made in 1977.
War at Sea: The Navy in WWI to be launched by Mike Carlton
August 1, 2015 by ·
Mike Carlton has had a life-long passion for naval history and his most recent book “First Victory” his story of the first victory for HMAS Sydney and Australian troops, against the German raider Emden, in the early days of World War I.
150 years of Dame Mary Gilmore
August 1, 2015 by ·
NEXT Saturday, August 8 from 10.30am to noon the Museum of the Riverina will be hosting a special birthday celebration to launch their newest exhibition, 150 years of Dame Mary Gilmore: Dreaming of newer note.
Throwback: This week 21 years ago – July 26 to August 1
August 1, 2015 by ·
Take a look at what was going on in Wagga this time 21 years ago. There are lots of familiar faces – is yours one of them?
British Pathé Puts Over 85,000 Historical Films on YouTube
July 31, 2015 by ·
British Pathé was one of the leading producers of newsreels and documentaries during the 20th Century. This week, the company, now an archive, is turning over its entire collection — over 85,000 historical films – to YouTube.
Ancestry Anne: Answers 5 DNA Questions
July 31, 2015 by ·
Ancestry gets a lot of questions about DNA. Here are 5 of the most common questions and the answers:
Vintage Australian postcards experience growth in popularity as window to the past
July 31, 2015 by ·
Old postcards have been experiencing a resurgence in popularity as researchers and collectors realise their remarkable historical value. A century after they were posted, the images on the front, the stamps used and the text on the back of early 1900s postcards have become a window into a world which has been lost.
Chiltern’s heritage-listed Dow’s Pharmacy a glimpse at the 1960s
July 31, 2015 by ·
WHEN the tide turned against Chiltern — as it did for all Victorian gold rush towns after the supply of both gold and miners was exhausted — local Pharmacist, Hilda Dow simply turned the lock on her pharmacy and never reopened. It was 1968, and Chiltern had been bleeding residents for decades.
