2024 News Archive
December 2024
- CDHS ANNUAL DINNER - The annual dinner on Tuesday 10 December will feature Dr Jeff Brownrigg self described 'some sort of cultural historian'. He has sought to make better...
October 2024
- A smorgasbrod of fascinating objects: the CMAG Social History Collection - Dr. Hannah Paddon, Senior Curator at CMAG, will be presenting some of the objects held in the CMAG Social History Collection, including those relating...
September 2024
- ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING AND TALK - Please come along to the AGM and PLEASE consider joining the Council - we really do need new members! A formal notice of AGM will be emailed to all financial...
July 2024
- The Valley Brides by Frances McGee - The Valley is today's Woden Valley, and the brides were married to soldier settlers, men who had returned from the First World War. Wesley Churches Centre,...
June 2024
- DR ARTHUR ANDREWS - EXTRAORDINARY LOCAL HISTORIAN - Gary Kent will be talking about the remarkable Dr Arthur Andrews at the next CDHS general meeting. Dr Andrews (1848-1925) contributed greatly to his adopted...
May 2024
- The Metcalfe Letters - Sue Tongue and Janet Wilson will talk about the letters Nancy Metcalfe wrote in the 1940s and 1950s. Nancy was one of the East Block 'Cable Girls.' during...
April 2024
- Down Mugga Lane - more than a trip to the tip. - Come and hear Nick Swain reveal the surprisingly varied history of the Mugga Lane and Narrabundah Lane area. From explosives magazines to wineries, abattoirs...
March 2024
- Representing Nation in the National Capital: The National Museum and of Australia Canberra - In the Canberra Day Oration for 2024, Dr Mathew Trinca, former Director of the National Museum of Australia, will argue that there is no better place than...
February 2024
- The Lost Cemeteries of the ACT - Come along and hear Tim Adams talk about the lost cemeteries of the ACT. Tuesday 13 February 5pm for 5.30pm start. Vercoe Room, Wesley Uniting Church Centre,...
