2023 Annual National Conference
Ipswich Civic Centre 50 Nicholas Street, Ipswich, Queensland, AustraliaAGHS Conference 2023 - 29 Sep to 1 Oct 2023 - Ipswich, QLD - Digging into the past – above and below the Limestone Hills
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Tasmania
Tas Branch: Spring in the Georgian towns of Oatlands and Kempton
The day includes tours of four fascinating gardens, each with individual highlights, including dry stone walls constructed by the owners and a reimagining of a nineteenth century church garden. Old Kempton Distillery, Kempton - We will meet here (24 […]
Tas Branch: Christmas Garden Party
AGHS members & partners are invited to the last AGHS event for 2023, visiting two gardens in the Richmond & Tea Tree areas, & finishing with a Christmas Garden party ……. champagne anyone? Uplands Stables, Cambridge, an 1820’s converted sandstone […]
Tasmania Branch: Walk the Avenue
The Soldiers’ Memorial Avenue forms part of the Queens Domain in Hobart. It is an avenue planted to commemorate soldiers, mainly from Hobart, who died in the Great War (WW1) 1914-1918. In all there are 536 individually named trees. Walk […]
Tasmania Branch: People, places and stories – Longford, Launceston and surrounds
Longford House People, places and stories combines the first of our 2024 Winter Lectures with visits to four historic properties in the Longford & Launceston areas. Saturday’s program commences at 11am in Longford with a tour of the extensive gardens […]
Zoom lecture: Big Hearted Gardens
You are invited to our annual Winter webinar and fundraiser for the Nina Crone Writing Fund Big Hearted Gardens: Community and Care at the Melbourne Flower & Garden Show Join landscape architect Emma Sheppard-Simms and go behind the scenes of the Melbourne International Flower and […]
Tasmania Branch: Convict Gardeners & their Gardens
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart & Ann Cripps present "Convict Gardeners & their Gardens" in the Chapel at the Hobart Penitentiary followed by guided tours of this historic convict site built in the 1830s. The interactive Convict Memorial with digitised records of 75,00 […]
Zoom lecture: Gardens and land management in Western Victoria
Winter online zoom lecture by Dr Raymond Madden, Senior Lecturer, Anthropologist, in the School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University James Dawson, (1806-1900), was a prominent pastoralist in the colonial history of western Victoria. In 1881 he published, ' Australian Aborigines: […]
Victoria Branch: Zoom Lecture: Nature and Culture: Eugene von Guérard by Dr Ruth Pullin
Of all the regions of southeastern Australia that Eugene von Guérard (1811-1901) visited none had a more profound impact on him and his career than Victoria’s Western District. His portrayals of its expansive volcanic plains, its landmark scoria cones and […]
ACT Monaro Riverina Branch: talk – Clever Country: an Aboriginal Perspective on Landscape (also available on Zoom)
Speaker: Adj Professor Margo Ngawa Neale The Joint Annual Lecture of the ACT Monaro Riverina Branch of the AGHS and the Friends of the NLA. Land is viewed as ‘Country’ in Aboriginal Australia. It is a worldview that embodies a […]
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2024 Annual National Conference
Bunbury Regional Entertainment Centre 2 Blair Street, Bunbury, Bunbury, Western Australia, Australia44th AGHS Annual Conference Hesperia: Looking West Bunbury, Western Australia Friday 18th, Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th October 2024. Optional Day Monday 21st October. Pre-conference Tour Tuesday 15th October to Thursday 17th October Leaves Perth and arrives in Bunbury […]
Tasmania branch: AGHS TAS Christmas Garden Party
Members and partners are invited to the AGHS TAS Christmas Garden Party. The afternoon begins at Summerhome, 2 Hopkins St West Moonah, with both the house and garden open, before moving to Runnymede, 61 Bay Rd New Town, where a […]