William Josiah Hammersley: Australia's best known sportsman of the mid nineteenth century - Gillian Hibbins
William Hammersley, sporting journalist, was a colonial mover and shaker from the 1850s to the 1880s. The development of cricket, horse racing, rowing, Australian rules football, athletics as well as hunting and fishing were some of the many sports related activities to which he contributed.
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A remarkable woman: Jessie Stobo Watson Webb (1880-1944) - Ron Ridley
An account of the life of Jessie Webb, lecturer in ancient history at the University of Melbourne, world traveller, and active member of the Women's Graduate Association and Lyceum Club. In 1923 she was an Australin delegate to the League of Nations. The talk also provides an insight into the history of the University of Melbourne History Department.
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Anna Bage spent many years in Africa before coming to Australia with her family in 1856. Dawn Peel recounts Anna's story discovered not only from documents and family records but via the increasing number of online resources now available.
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