Events Calendar
To keep our staff and customers safe we will continue to follow the physical distancing, building capacity limits and increased hygiene practises outlined by the State Government in their roadmap to recovery. When entering the library please make sure you sanitise your hands at the sanitiser stations provided. Bookings are essential and you will also need to complete a Contact Tracing Form so we can undertake tracing if needed. You can download the Contact Tracing Form to complete and bring with you when you attend the event.
A TUESDAY TALK - BOOKS IN MY LIFE
In partnership with the State Library of South Australia
Speaker: Patricia Sumerling
Tuesday 2 March 2021 at 11.00am
Cost: FREE
Hetzel Theatre, Institute Building, State Library
In partnership with the State Library of South Australia
Speaker: Patricia Sumerling
Tuesday 2 March 2021 at 11.00am
Cost: FREE
Hetzel Theatre, Institute Building, State Library
Patricia Sumerling is co-author of the landmark publication Heritage of the City of Adelaide: An Illustrated Guide, 1990, and the author of The Adelaide Park Lands: A Social History, 2011. She is the author of Elephants and Egotists: In Search of Samorn of the Adelaide Zoo, 2016, and debuted as a novelist in 2010 with the historical crime mystery The Noon Lady of Towitta. Having a long term interest in hotels, her first book on them was Down at the Local: A history of Hotels in Kensington, Kent Town and Norwood. Now completing one on pubs of the city, this is part of a larger project of a social history of the pubs of South Australia.
Image: Patricia Sumerling, 2018. SLSA: B 76803. Jenny Scott, photographer
Image: Patricia Sumerling, 2018. SLSA: B 76803. Jenny Scott, photographer
LIVE & LEARN -
AN EXTRAORDINARY FAMILY:
THE CLARKS OF HAZELWOOD PARK
In partnership with the The Friends of the State Library of South Australia
Speaker: Carolyn Spooner
Tuesday 16 March 2021 at 11.00am
Cost: FREE
Hetzel Theatre, Institute Building, State Library
AN EXTRAORDINARY FAMILY:
THE CLARKS OF HAZELWOOD PARK
In partnership with the The Friends of the State Library of South Australia
Speaker: Carolyn Spooner
Tuesday 16 March 2021 at 11.00am
Cost: FREE
Hetzel Theatre, Institute Building, State Library
Francis and Caroline Clark with their eight surviving children emigrated to South Australia on the Fatima in 1850. The State Library holds the family archive, including the shipboard diaries kept by Francis and by his son John Howard, who went on edit the South Australian Register and was a board member of the South Australian Institute, forerunner of the State Library.
Daughter Caroline Emily founded the Boarding-Out system and her long reminiscences cover her life up to 1911. Son Henry Septimus was the gardener of the family and planted the first vines of Stonyfell Winery. Another son and amateur naturalist Matthew Symonds kept bird observation notebooks in the Burnside district from 1859 to 1919 which provide an invaluable historical perspective. The first of these notebooks has been transcribed by a State Library volunteer.
The other children all made useful contributions to the life of the social and business community, culminating in Hazelwood Park becoming a community asset in perpetuity.
Image: Ellen Rosa Clark and her brother Henry Septimus circa 1862. SLSA: PRG 331/30/2/29
Daughter Caroline Emily founded the Boarding-Out system and her long reminiscences cover her life up to 1911. Son Henry Septimus was the gardener of the family and planted the first vines of Stonyfell Winery. Another son and amateur naturalist Matthew Symonds kept bird observation notebooks in the Burnside district from 1859 to 1919 which provide an invaluable historical perspective. The first of these notebooks has been transcribed by a State Library volunteer.
The other children all made useful contributions to the life of the social and business community, culminating in Hazelwood Park becoming a community asset in perpetuity.
Image: Ellen Rosa Clark and her brother Henry Septimus circa 1862. SLSA: PRG 331/30/2/29
A TUESDAY TALK - BOOKS IN MY LIFE
In partnership with the State Library of South Australia
Speaker: Bill Murray
Tuesday 6 April 2021 at 11.00am
Cost: FREE
Hetzel Theatre, Institute Building, State Library
In partnership with the State Library of South Australia
Speaker: Bill Murray
Tuesday 6 April 2021 at 11.00am
Cost: FREE
Hetzel Theatre, Institute Building, State Library
Scots-born historian Bill Murray had childhood dreams of becoming a professional soccer player but the need to wear glasses put paid to that. Arriving in Australia as a teenager, he spent several years selling petrol for the Shell company before retraining as a teacher and attending the University of Adelaide in his twenties. Scholarships followed and a PhD on the right-wing press in France during the Revolution paved the way to a lectureship in French history at Latrobe University where he spent the rest of his academic career.
Bill did not ignore his football and played first-division soccer for several clubs in Adelaide as well as Australian Rules football while working for Shell in Port Lincoln.
As a historian, Bill ranged well beyond his academic specialty, publishing two books of documents on Australian history, as well as writing on the life and politics of Robert Burns, and the religious warfare of industrial Scotland.
A founder member of the Australian Society for Sports History, Bill has published The Old Firm: sectarianism, sport and society in Scotland, a study of the rivalry between Orange, Masonic and Unionist Glasgow Rangers and Catholic Irish Glasgow Celtic and The World’s Game: a history of soccer. With fellow Scot (Roy Hay) he is the author of two histories of Australian soccer.
Bill did not ignore his football and played first-division soccer for several clubs in Adelaide as well as Australian Rules football while working for Shell in Port Lincoln.
As a historian, Bill ranged well beyond his academic specialty, publishing two books of documents on Australian history, as well as writing on the life and politics of Robert Burns, and the religious warfare of industrial Scotland.
A founder member of the Australian Society for Sports History, Bill has published The Old Firm: sectarianism, sport and society in Scotland, a study of the rivalry between Orange, Masonic and Unionist Glasgow Rangers and Catholic Irish Glasgow Celtic and The World’s Game: a history of soccer. With fellow Scot (Roy Hay) he is the author of two histories of Australian soccer.
LIVE & LEARN -
NOBLE & NOTORIOUS
In partnership with the The Friends of the State Library of South Australia
Speaker: Isabel Story
Tuesday 20 April 2021 at 11.00am
Cost: FREE
Hetzel Theatre, Institute Building, State Library
NOBLE & NOTORIOUS
In partnership with the The Friends of the State Library of South Australia
Speaker: Isabel Story
Tuesday 20 April 2021 at 11.00am
Cost: FREE
Hetzel Theatre, Institute Building, State Library
Were Elizabeth Woolcock and Mary Schippan black-hearted sinners or sinned against? Who was the brave and generous Miss Kate Cocks? Why did so many World War One soldiers love Mrs Seeger?
Join us to hear the stories of these four South Australian women who lived with tragedy or inspired hope.
Image: Kate Boadicea Cocks SLSA: B 10886
Join us to hear the stories of these four South Australian women who lived with tragedy or inspired hope.
Image: Kate Boadicea Cocks SLSA: B 10886
