PAST PROGRAMS

Here at the Eureka Centre honour the contribution of Raffaello Carboni to the Eureka story, but he was only one of many Italians on the goldfields. This month Clare Gervasoni presents ‘More than Carboni: Italian Speakers on Victoria’s Goldfields’- a tour through Victoria’s early Italian heritage.

Do you have a soldier in the family? Explore the records at the Australian War Memorial and the National Archives of Australia.

Join Dr Stuart King as he looks at Colonial Architecture in a new way. Stuart presents the result of his research on the Analysis of Colonial Tasman Architecture through materials rather than design. Stuart is a Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design and History at the University of Melbourne.

Create your own souvenir postcard and mail it directly from the home of the Eureka Stockade. We will use block printing techniques and stamp making, so please wear paint-safe clothes for this fun filled activity. 

Explore the many resources of TROVE, the National Library of Australia’s contribution to family research. 

In this edition of Talking History, Padraic L. Fisher from the National Wool Museum will draw from the museum’s extensive collection to examine the art of making do and the creation of the bush blanket, or Wagga Quilt.

Historian Dr David Waldron leads a panel discussion about the growing popularity of Dark Tourism and the challenges and opportunities it brings to heritage management and interpretation. 

The nineteenth century saw many miraculous advancements in the field of medicine. Unfortunately with them came hordes of quacks and charlatans eager to take your money at the expense of your health. Come with us as we explore the wild world of quackery that was the Victorian era in a hybrid lecture magic show.
In partnership with Federation University Future Regions Research Centre and supported by the Eureka Centre Ballarat.

Author and journalist Jeff Sparrow leads a discussion with barrister and political commentator, Greg Barns SC and historian Dr Anne Beggs-Sunter about Eureka’s defining values, its enduring appeal and the flag’s symbolic malleability.