Throughout the year, THRA conducts excursions to places of historical interest. We also hold eleven talks each year, open to members and the general public.
Paradise Lost: Thomas Griffiths Wainewright
THIS EXCURSION IS NOW FULL. Curatorial talk by Jane Stewart on the Paradise Lost: Thomas Griffiths Wainewright exhibition.
Shaping Hobart: Townscape scale and proportion. Re-viewing the Meehan Plan of 1811
Leigh Woolley will present a talk about Tasmanian Architecture.
Exploring 1840s New Zealand through Australian convict records
Kristyn Harman will describe how Australian convict records shed light on the New Zealand historical experience.
Tasmania’s mystery train hikes of 1932 and the commercialisation of bushwalking
Kirstie Ross will examine the convergence of railways, tourism and bushwalking in the Depression.
Eldershaw Memorial Lecture - The history of fishing in Tasmania
Anna Clark will present the 2021 Eldershaw Memorial Lecture. Her subject will be the history of fishing in Tasmania.
John Scott, sealer of Bass Strait and his ‘forgotten’ Tasmanian Aboriginal descendants
Graeme Broxam will take us to nineteenth century Bass Strait and the Tasmanian Aboriginal descendants of sealer John Scott.
Royal Hobart Show Bicentenary
Dianne Snowden will present the story of the two hundred year old Royal Hobart Show