Third Sunday of the Month 2.00pm, QVMAG Museum at Inveresk

Monthly meetings are held from February to November, usually on the afternoon of the third Sunday in the month, at the Meeting Room, QVMAG Museum at Inveresk. Speakers include members of the Society and other historians.

The Society hosts The Examiner-John West Memorial Lecture, delivered by a prominent Australian, in March each year. The Annual General Meeting is held in February.

Below is the current schedule for these meetings. See the latest newsletter for more information on upcoming events. Admission is free and visitors are welcome.

2014 Meetings:

Sunday, 16 February 2014 - Annual General Meeting + Poster
Stefan Petrow – ‘Developing the highest moral instincts’: Protecting Animals in Launceston 1879 to 1923

Friday, 14 March 2014 – The Examiner-John West Memorial Lecture
Held at the University of Tasmania at Newnham at 8.00pm
Professor Philip Payton – From Launceston to Launceston – Perspectives on the Cornish in Australia

Sunday, 13 April 2014 – Australian Heritage Week
Jenny Gill – Launceston Hospitals

Sunday, 18 May 2014 – Tasmanian Heritage Festival Month (Walking Tour)
Robyn Jones & Committee Members – Monuments and Monkeys: A Walk in Historic City Park. Afternoon tea at Victoria’s on the Park, Albert Hall, Cimitiere Street.

Sunday, 15 June 201 – Third Pugh Day Lecture
Dr Chris Ball – Cobras, chloroform and consumption – the life and times of Joseph T Clover

Sunday, 20 July 2014
Roger Kellaway – The Third Basin Gold Rush

Sunday, 17 August 2014
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart – Imprisonment and the Family

Sunday, 21 September 2014 – Joint Seminar with the Oral History Association
Prof Michael Bennett – Smallpox Epidemics
Peter Henning – World War Two Nurses
Tom Gunn and Anne Green – Writing the History of St Giles

Sunday, 19 October 2014
Nick Clements – Frightened to Death: Colonists’ Experience of Aboriginal Violence in Tasmania

Sunday, 16 November 2014
Steve Radford – History of Telecommunications