PORT Macquarie will host the Royal Australian Historical Society Annual History Conference (RAHS) in 2018 on October 20 and 21 at the Westport Club.
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The RAHS conference is an opportunity to learn more about Port Macquarie, with local historians to speak about the experiences of the Birpai, life on the early estates in the Hastings and Port Macquarie’s last convicts.
Keynote speaker Dr Mathew Trinca, Director of the National Museum of Australia, will discuss the very pertinent theme of ‘History from the ground up.’
Attendees will discover new resources and techniques to help survey the past of their own local community and be inspired by historians whose research interests span surveyors' field books and explorers' notes, historical market research, women in business, and understanding the social, medical and domestic legacies of World War I.
Opportunities to network with RAHS members and friends will be paramount, especially at the pre-conference event on Friday October 19, which will be hosted by Port Macquarie Historical Society at its award winning museum.
Guided walking tours of Port Macquarie’s historic sites are scheduled for Saturday.
The first from 3.15pm, where attendees will be given a tour of Port Macquaries second burying ground, led by Lyn Crosscombe.
Hear the stories of Port Macquarie’s famous and infamous residents who are buried here including convicts, soldiers and free settlers such as Major Archibald Clunes Innes, colonial architect John Verge, Major James Henry Crummer and his daughter Augusta Louisa Du Faur.
The second is a bus tour led by Tony Dawson that will provide delegates with an overview of Port Macquarie’s historic sites, maritime history and convict past.
Learn about the town’s British/Irish links, the chain of events that brought our first British settlers to Port Macquarie and their miles travelled to banishment.
The tour includes stops at Port Macquarie’s first burying ground, Tacking Point Lighthouse and concludes with a guided visit to the convict built St Thomas’ Church.
For more information or to book, visit www.rahs.org.au/2018-rahs-conference/
