Category Archives: Events
History Alive: Captured Portraits of Crime 1870 – 1930
An award-winning NSW State Archives display exploring the startling and often tragic stories of NSW lawbreakers from 1870 to 1930 opens on Wednesday 3rd July at Orange City Library. Spanning 60 years, Captured explores the fates of men, women and … Read more
Connections to The Springs?
Do you have a connection to The Springs? It was a transient settlement known mainly from memory. It was a mixed Aboriginal, European and Asian community remembered from the 1920s and 30s about 4kms from Orange, past the rifle range … Read more
History Guest Speakers at Orange
On Saturday 25th May you are invited to join Orange & District Historical Society when they host two distinguished guest speakers Dr Lisa Murray and Kylie Winkworth in the West Room at Orange Regional Gallery, 147 Byng Street, Orange from … Read more
History Alive: 1949 Memories
1949 was the foundation year for the Orange and District Historical Society and as part of their 70th anniversary celebrations they will dedicate the next History Alive session to a recollection of life in the city and district at that … Read more
Are you related to Joe Windred?
If you are you'll want a front row seat at the national launch of 'Mistaken Identity, The Trials of Joe Windred', by award-winning Australian author Stephen Dando-Collins on Friday 24 August. Imagine not once, but twice being mistaken for a … Read more
WWI Centenary Community Project Begins
The call has gone out to families with connections to Orange to help find the names of all Orange’s ex-services personnel from World War I. Orange City Council has formed a Community Working Party in the lead up to plans … Read more
History Week Visit by Author Pam McGlinn
Guests gathered at both Blayney Library and Orange Libraries on Thursday to join in History Week celebrations with author and family historian Pamela J McGlinn. This year’s theme for the History Council of NSW’s History Week was Faces in the … Read more
