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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 ...
No. 133 Macquarie Street, Sydney, the home of the Royal Australian Historical Society and now known as History House was designed in 1871 by the architect George Allen Mansfield for his uncle George Oakes, a well known pastoralist and politician.
One of these was the Sydney Female Refuge Society set up to care for prostitutes in 1848. [62] The first Sydney Royal Easter Show, an agricultural exhibition, began in 1823. [63] Alexander Macleay started collecting the exhibits of Australia's oldest museum–Sydney's Australian Museum–in 1826 and the current building opened to the public in ...
Liston has a BA (1973), [2] and a PhD (1980) from the University of Sydney. [3] In addition to her academic commitments Liston has been president of the Royal Australian Historical Society (RAHS) on three occasions, from 1988 to 1992, in 2002 and from 2014 to 2018. She was subsequently senior vice president and executive member of the RAHS.
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 ...
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 ...
St George Historical Society, St George (Sydney) Northern Territory ... The Royal Western Australian Historical Society is the overarching society for the whole state.
Australian Age of Dinosaurs; Australian Association for Jewish Studies; Australian Catholic Historical Society; Australian Computer Museum Society; Australian Forest History Society; Australian Garden History Society; Australian Jewish Genealogical Society; Australian Jewish Historical Society; Australian Society for Sports History