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The Royal Australian Historical Society, formerly Australian Historical Society, is a voluntary organisation founded in Sydney, Australia in 1901 [1] [2] with Andrew Houison as founding president. [3] Its goals are to encourage the study of and interest in Australian history. It has a membership throughout Australia and many of its activities ...
History House, Sydney is a heritage-listed former residence, doctor's rooms and clubhouse and now historical society located at 133 Macquarie Street in the Sydney central business district, in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia.
With the close of the colonial period at Federation, a number of state-based historical societies began to be formed: [7] 1901 in New South Wales, the Australian Historical Society; [7] in 1909, the Historical Society of Victoria; [7] in 1913, the Historical Society of Queensland; [7] 1926, the Western Australian Historical Society; [7] in 1926 ...
Royal Anthropological Society of Australasia Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union 1 Jul 1901: Royal Australian Chemical Institute 1917: Royal Australian Historical Society 1901: Royal Historical Society of Queensland 1913: Commissariat Store, Brisbane: Royal Historical Society of Victoria 1909: Royal Society of New South Wales 1821: Royal ...
Carol Ann Liston AO is an Australian historian and academic researcher who specialises in the history of colonial New South Wales from 1788 to 1860. She is associate professor of history at Western Sydney University, in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts.
the Local Government and Shires Association of New South Wales, the Royal Australian Historical Society, the Geographical Society of New South Wales, the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council, and; the Chairperson of the Community Relations Commission. [3]
Houison was the founding President of the Royal Australian Historical Society in 1901, his interest in history being variously attributed to philately, genealogical research in Scotland and his father's work in the development of his home town, Parramatta. [1]
The Australian Jewish Historical Society was founded in 1938 in Sydney. The first president was Percy J. Marks.At the first business meeting of the Society, the then-president of the Royal Australian Historical Society K. R. Cramp expressed the view that the chief object of the Society should be the encouragement of individual research.