PUBLIC LECTURE: Friends of the Library talk: Nineteenth Century Journal Accounts of Life Aboard Sailing Ships
|
|
Friends of the Library talk: Nineteenth Century Journal Accounts of Life Aboard Sailing Ships |
Other events...
|
Diaries written by two great-great uncles as they sailed from Liverpool to Melbourne in 1854, together with a copy of the Daily Sick Book and Synopsis written by their father, Dr John Patchell, on a journey, as the ship’s surgeon, from Dublin to Sydney in 1839 provided Joan Robins with a wealth of information as she researched her family history. She will use extracts from these documents to describe life at sea under sail for migrants travelling to Australia in the mid eighteen hundreds.
About the Speaker
Joan Robins has a BA and a DipEd from UWA. Spending most of her working life at UWA, firstly in teaching and later in administration, she was the recipient of a Twenty-five Year Service Award and a Chancellor’s Medal. In retirement, she completed and self-published a history of the Patchell family. Bitten by the genealogy bug, she is now working on another line of ancestors.
Parking is available in Myer Street and Park Way, accessible from Fairway
Members: Free Non Members: $5 donation
Speaker(s) |
Joan Robins
|
Location |
Science Library meeting room (3rd floor)
|
|
Contact |
Stella Ibbott
<[email protected]>
: 6488 2356
|
Start |
Tue, 10 May 2011 19:30
|
End |
Tue, 10 May 2011 21:20
|
Submitted by |
Katie Mills <[email protected]>
|
Last Updated |
Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:50
|
Included in the following Calendars: |
|
- Locations of venues on the Crawley and Nedlands campuses are
available via the Campus Maps website.
- Download this event as:
Text |
iCalendar
-
Mail this event:
|