Newsflash – Historian Alan Atkinson Wins $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature
Australian historian Dr Alan Atkinson has won the overall $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature for his third volume of The Europeans in Australia. He also won the non-fiction category. Read more about his win here. The other winners were: Non-fiction ($25,000): The Europeans in Australia: Volume III, Nation, Alan Atkinson Fiction ($25,000): To Name Those Lost, Rohan…
Paleography – transcribing old letters
Transcribing Elizabeth Macarthur’s letters is at once illuminating and frustrating. I’m currently working on one that Elizabeth sent to Captain John Piper, in 1804. The original is held in the Mitchell Library, Sydney. John Macarthur was away in England at the time and Captain Piper, a good friend to both Elizabeth and John, was stationed…
Camden Park House & Garden Open Days
Open 20 – 21 September 2014. Saturday 12noon – 4pm; Sunday 10am – 4pm Historic Camden Park House built in 1835 for John and Elizabeth Macarthur and their family is open for one weekend a year. Tour through this historic Georgian mansion designed by John Verge. Explore the colonial garden filled with spring blossoms and…