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TOUR CANCELLED - Hidden Histories Tour (Orange & Bathurst area)

  • 29 Oct 2022
  • 08:00 - 17:30
  • Meet at the Canobolas Hotel, 248 Summer St, Orange, NSW, 2800
  • 15

Registration

  • For Seniors & Concession Card holders (includes entry fee to Abercrombie House and Morning tea there, but not lunch)
  • This registration is for members & their guests/partners (limit of 1 guests). (Includes entry fee to Abercrombie House and Morning tea there, but not lunch)
  • This rate is for non-members of the HCNSW & their guests. (Includes entry fee to Abercrombie House and Morning tea there, but not lunch)


Tour Cancelled due to weather

Hidden Histories of the Central West Tour

One-day tour

As part of the Annual History Lecture weekend, the History Council of NSW is offering a tour of the Orange-Bathurst region to explore the hidden histories of the area.

The tour, commencing from Orange and travelling to Bathurst then back to Orange, will be on a 28-seat bus, with visits and talks arranged during the day.

Features of the tour include:

  • 4-5 historians giving talks during the day, providing historical perspectives
  • Visits to the Pillars of Bathurst & Abercrombie House (entry fee and morning tea is included in the tour price)
  • Lunch (at own cost) at the Beekeepers Inn to hear about the history of beekeeping
  • Platform Arts Gallery visit at Blaney
  • Frontier wars talk on the Kings Plains with Dr Stephen Gapps 
  • Private after-hours tour of ‘Mulaa Giilang - Wiradjuri Stories of the Night Sky’ Exhibition at the Orange Regional Museum

(Note:  so that we can can keep tickets affordable for all, the price of the tour includes travel, and talks by historians and tour guides, entry fee and morning tea at Abercrombie House.  Lunch & sundry refreshments are the responsibility of the attendee, but we will be stopping along the way at cafes to allow you to buy your own)

Registrations are essential.  Bookings will go fast.

Event Organiser: The History Council of NSW, Inc.

Event website: https://historycouncilnsw.org.au/home/annual-history-lecture-general-information/annual-history-lecture-weekend-2022/

Contact: programs@historycouncilnsw.org.au

Ph:  0418 811522

Supported by a NSW Government Grant through Destination NSW.

THE HCNSW IS SUPPORTED BY THE NSW GOVERNMENT THROUGH CREATE NSW


CULTURAL PARTNERS

City of Sydney

Macquarie University (Faculty of Arts)

National Archives of Australia

NSW State Archives & Records

Placemaking NSW

Reserve Bank of Australia

State Library of New South Wales

Sydney Living Museums

University of New England

University of Newcastle (School of Humanities & Social Sciences)

University of New South Wales

University of Technology Sydney (Australian Centre for Public History)

CONTACT US

History Council of NSW

PO Box R1737

Royal Exchange NSW 1225

Phone: 0418 811 522

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