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Sun, 4 May, 4pm - 6pm AEST
Josh Wodak: Petrified - Living during a rupture of life on Earth
Gardner's Inn Hotel 255 Great Western Hwy, Blackheath NSW 2785, Australia
Sat, 24 May, 4pm - 6pm AEST
Stephen Gapps in conversation with Naomi Parry Duncan. Uprising: War in the Colony of New South Wales, 1838–1844
Blackheath Public School Leichhardt St, Blackheath NSW 2785, Australia
Sat, 28 Jun, 4pm - 6pm AEST
Linda Jaivin: Shades of the Cultural Revolution - From Mao to Musk
Blackheath Public School Leichhardt St, Blackheath NSW 2785, Australia
Sat, 26 Jul, 4pm - 6pm AEST
Anne Coote: A Foot in the Door - Women, Science and the Royal Society of NSW
Blackheath Public School Leichhardt St, Blackheath NSW 2785, Australia
Sun, 10 Aug, 4pm - 6pm AEST
Trish FitzSimons and Madelyn Shaw: Fleeced - Unraveling the history of wool and war
Gardner's Inn Hotel 255 Great Western Hwy, Blackheath NSW 2785, Australia
Sat, 16 Aug, 4pm - 6pm AEST
Andrew Ford: The Shortest History of Music
Blackheath Public School Leichhardt St, Blackheath NSW 2785, Australia
Sat, 6 Sep, 4pm - 6pm AEST
Lauren Samuelsson: Boiled Mutton to Chow Mein - The Australian Women’s Weekly and food culture
Blackheath Public School Leichhardt St, Blackheath NSW 2785, Australia
Sat, 20 Sep, 4pm - 6pm AEST
Shauna Bostock: Reaching Through Time - finding my family’s stories
Blackheath Public School Leichhardt St, Blackheath NSW 2785, Australia
Sat, 25 Oct, 4pm - 6pm AEDT
James Findlay: Caught on Screen - Australia’s Convict history in film and television
Blackheath Public School Leichhardt St, Blackheath NSW 2785, Australia
About
BLACKHEATH HISTORY FORUM
Highlighting the Past in the Present
Based in the Blue Mountains, NSW Australia
2025 Program
Climate Crisis, Frontier Wars, China, Music, Women
& Science, Wool and War, Military History, Aboriginal families,
Food and the Women’s Weekly, Convicts on the Screen