D-Day 70th Anniversary Dinner

A Dinner at the Riverine Club will commemorate D-Day with specialties from the region of Normandy.

In the Past 3rd May 2014

In the Past is compiled from the Daily Advertiser by the Wagga Wagga & District Historical Society

In the Past 26th April

In the Past is compiled from the Daily Advertiser by the Wagga Wagga & District Historical Society

What’s On in History May and June 2014

Coming events collated by the Wagga Wagga and District Historical Society

Reasearching a Soldier from the First World War

The Australian War Memorial website is a good place to start researching someone who served in the military during a war. Several sources on the Memorial’s website give basic information about a soldier such as service number, rank, date of joining and other details.

Inside History App Reviews

History Apps for your Tablet or Smart Phone are reviewed by Inside History Magazine

Radio National now available on Trove

Some of Australia’s greatest stories, as heard on ABC’s Radio National, are now available through Trove, the National Library of Australia’s award-winning free discovery service.

State Library NSW digitised Wagga manuscripts

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List of Australian diarists of World War I

Wikipedia has a list of Australian diarists of World War I. The list although incomplete contains over one thousand diarists. There are three diarists listed as originating from Wagga Wagga.

This Week in History April 22nd 2014

1803 Supply ship left England for new penal colony in Port Phillip (24th); 1929 the Cenotaph in Martin Place, Sydney, celebrated its first Anzac Day service (25th); 1800 William Balmain recieved a land grant of 550 acres on the east side of Cockle Bay, an area which was to become the suburbs of Balmain and […]

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