Defiant Voices: The Legacy of Australia’s Convict Women – Babette Smith
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DEFIANT VOICES: THE LEGACY OF AUSTRALIA’S CONVICT WOMEN
The recorded stories of Australia’s convict women have taken time to defuse from those of a collection of lowly and wanton figures in the annuls of Australian history to something more positive about their lives. Historian Babette Smith is one who has done much to refocus attention on the contribution of Australia’s female convicts to [...]
S.T. Gill – Respectable Colonial Painter Or Convict Forger?
One of Australia’s most significant colonial artists was S T Gill. His output was prodigious. Gill’s sketches and paintings are a glimpse of early European settlement in the south eastern colonies of Australia and he has left an invaluable record of life in the latter half of nineteenth century Australia. Babette Smith is an author [...]
Respectable Free Settler or Audacious Convict? The Mystery of Artist S T Gill
Speaker(s): Babette Smith Date: 2016-02-16 Venue: 41 Phillip Street, Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm
The Making Of The Australian Working Class
The luck of the Irish so often in history was chronic bad luck. That's how it looked for 250 Irish convicts when theirship, the Hive, sank ignominiously off the NSW coast in 1835. Miraculously, all survived, guided to safety by local Aboriginal people. Using this fascinating case study, in her new book The Luck of The [...]
Luck of the Irish
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The Making of The Australian Working Class – An Irish Perspective
**Bookings from 8th July only**LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Babette Smith Date: 2014-07-22 Venue: The Gallipoli Club, 12 Loftus Street (between Bridge Street & Alfred Street), Sydney Time: 5.30 for 6pm
No Fatal Shore – Re-envisaging Australian History – Babette Smith
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No Fatal Shore – Re-envisaging Australian History
LIGHT REFRESHMENTS Speaker(s): Babette Smith Date: 2008-05-27 Venue: 41 Phillip St Sydney Time: 6:00pm (arrive at 5:30pm)