#HistoryWeek16

It’s History Week from 3 to 11 September 2016. This year’s theme is “Neighbours”, and we are invited to acknowledge and celebrate the history of our communities as a crucial part to understanding the past’s impact on the present.

How important were class, the economy, gender, governments, the media, race, religion and sport in the formation of ideas regarding neighbours? How have attitudes regarding a nation’s geographic neighbours determined defence, foreign, immigration, refugee and trade policies? Did new types of communication and transport from the nineteenth century onwards radically alter how neighbours and neighbourhoods were perceived? This year’s History Week focuses on these and other related questions.

History Week is an initiative of the History Council of NSW. Highlights include the Annual History Lecture delivered by Professor Heather Goodall on ‘Neighbours and Heroes’, and the annual Macquarie University symposium at the State Library of NSW celebrating and interrogating community sporting history.

For more information and to find an event near you, please follow this link: http://www.historycouncilnsw.org.au/history-week/