At 11am this Sunday, May 28, at our city’s largely unknown Boer War Memorial in Robertson Park we commemorate a conflict that we have mostly chosen to forget, writes former Orange Mayor Reg Kidd.
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A unique collection of 1300 photographs, posters, programs and documents relating to the Orange Festival of Arts has been digitised and added to the Central West Libraries’ Recollect Central West website.
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A wonderfully preserved framed photograph of the founding members of Orange’s Returned Soldiers Club will soon sit in pride of place in the Memorial Hall museum in Anson Street.
Who doesn’t love a Middletons? Read about them here.
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Read about one communities decisions for their new corner store!
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“The world ‘as got me snorted just a treat”
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Brooklyn Bridge, an iconic landmark in the concrete jungle landscape and has been since 1883.
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These days, in our world of phone and internet, we can be constantly in touch with almost everyone no matter how near or far they may be
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You may remember John Payne from our magazine two years ago when he self- published his first book; Their Last Ride: The Fallen Jockeys of Australia.
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The National Library of Australia’s online archive Trove has unveiled a new-look interface and there is no better time to get acquainted with this truly amazing portal to the past.
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We are in many ways fighting a war. A war against the virus. And, as in the 1940s, it is a world war. But, fortunately, in this war our houses are safe refuges
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With so many people losing jobs and money becoming scarcer, it is always helpful to look back at a time in which circumstances were very similar.
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When it was suggested to me that the Oral History Group contribute to an article about how they faced difficult times in their lives, I was tempted to begin with a quote from some famous thinker about hard times.
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Reading the daily coverage of the coronavirus pandemic over the past few weeks I’ve seen the word ‘unprecedented’ used countless times. I’ve even used it myself in this magazine and in conversation.
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Bushrangers have been a recent obsession with my seven-year-old and he was thrilled to learn that the Central West is steeped in history, when it comes to Australian outlaws.
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Technology has brought huge changes to the agricultural industry in Australia over the past century, but throughout it all the mission of the NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) has largely remained the same.
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For the modern historian and family researcher there are so many amazing tools now available.
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Millthorpe author and freelance book editor, Kim Kelly, is known for her colourful and evocative writing, bringing to life forgotten stories from Australia’s past.
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This month thousands of eager , bright eyed little people set off for school for the first time. Some walked, some rode bicycles, some were taken by bus while others were driven in the family car.
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“Social history adds colour and vibrancy to the dry facts of history,” says Helen McAnulty, a former schoolteacher who has spent the past four decades collecting colourful snippets of Australia’s past.
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