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May 2023
Becoming a Mother: An Australian History
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Ivanhoe, 3079 Select a Country: + Google Map
Celebrate the release of a powerful new history of Australian motherhood this Mother’s Day weekend! When she first become a mother in 2013, historian Dr Carla Pascoe Leahy looked around her for stories of how mothering had changed over time. She was shocked to find that no one had written a history of Australian motherhood. This ambitious and compelling book remedies this glaring omission in our understanding of motherhood in the past. Through more than 60 interviews with a diverse…
August 2023
Soldiers and Aliens Book Talk
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Ivanhoe, 3079 Select a Country: + Google Map
Local author June Factor will discuss her book Soldiers and aliens: men in the Australian Army’s Employment Companies during World War II, which details the forgotten history of the remarkable contribution of non-British subjects to Australia in 1939-1945.