Join us at 2pm this Friday (1st November) for our monthly meeting which will be held at Redcliffe Library Meeting Room.
Our guest speaker this month is our very own Eva Marshall who will be speaking about the CWA holiday homes.
This is our last regular monthly meeting for 2024 as our December gathering will be our members only Christmas lunch. So come along and learn a bit of history, meet old friends and new and have a cuppa!
The Management Committee of History Redcliffe (Redcliffe Historical Society Inc.) requests your presence at the Annual General Meeting to be held at Redcliffe Library Meeting Room on Friday 4th October 2024.
After the AGM, afternoon tea will be served. All financial members are entitled to vote for the nominated committee candidates to be appointed to the 2024/25 History Redcliffe Management Committee.
During the meeting we will be screening In search of Queensland’s origins, which looks at the 2008 archaeological expedition to locate the remnants of Queensland’s first settlement site in Redcliffe (written by Pat Gee and narrated by Marc Simpson).
Join us at our monthly meeting today (2pm at Redcliffe Library Meeting Room) as we welcome our internationally renowned guest speaker, historian and author, Professor Marc Serge Rivière.
He will be showcasing his latest publication, True Friendship Knows No Bounds: Extensive Correspondence of Matthew Flinders and Thomi Pitot (1804-1814). An extensive selection of 65 letters, from various provenance, exchanged by Flinders and Pitot over ten years, is presented in this precious annotated edition, to explore the strong bond of friendship, mutual admiration and reverence. Moreover, the regular and lengthy exchange of letters sheds considerable light on the socio-economic and cultural life, the commercial and maritime activities, military on-goings on Isle de France in the last decade of French occupation (1804-1810), including the Battle of Grand Port (August 1810) and the island’s capitulation (December 1810) and the early years of British colonisation.
Serge Rivière has published 38 books and over 70 international articles in refereed Journals and chapters in books on: Voltaire and the 18th century; French and Francophone Literature; the History of Australia, Ireland, Europe and Mauritius; Cultural Studies, and the biographies of great men and women.
