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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 ...
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 ...
Shaw was elected as a fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia (FASSA) in 1967, [20] a Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA) in 1969, [21] a fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria (FRHSV) in 1973, [22] a fellow of the Royal Australian Historical Society in 1979, and as the first fellow of ...
Historical societies of Australia by state or territory (7 C) Pages in category "Historical societies of Australia" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
In 1901 when the Royal Australian Historical Society was founded it had neither the funds nor the ambition to own a home of its own. Instead the Society met in a number of different venues and was eventually provided with rooms in the Department of Education building in Bridge Street. In 1941, forty years after its foundation, the Society ...
This was the home of the Royal Australian Historical Society. Her business focused on antiquarian books with Australian and Pacific subjects [2] History House had been obtained by The society's first premises, History House, opened at 8 Young Street, Sydney, in 1941. [3]
The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south-east Asia 50,000 to 65,000 years ago, during the last glacial period. [1] [2] Arriving by sea, they settled the continent and had formed approximately 250 distinct language groups by the time of European settlement, maintaining some of the longest known continuing artistic and religious traditions in the world.