Public Programs
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Guano and Pearls, Steamships and Suffragettes....
In the Wild West Lecture - S1 2011
Michael McCarthy, Curator of Maritime Archaeology
7.00pm, Thursday 26 May, WA Museum - Geraldton › [Book Online Now]
10.00am, Friday 27 May, WA Museum - Geraldton › [Book Online Now]How did the SS Xantho sink overloaded with lead ore at Port Gregory? Take a journey through the lives of pioneering ship merchant and businessman Charles Broadhurst, his wife Eliza an early feminist, his son Florance the award winning guano merchant and his daughter Kitty the suffragette.
- Guano and Pearls, Steamships and Suffragettes....
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Blue China: single female migration to colonial Australia
In the Wild West Lecture - S2 2011
Dr Jan Gothard, Associate Professor in History, Murdoch University
7.00pm, Thursday 28 July - Geraldton › [Book Online Now]
Almost 100,000 single women emigrated from Britain to the Australian colonies between 1850 and 1900. Despite the constraints imposed on them, these women ultimately forged their own destinies. Learn about their amazing experiences.
Geraldton 7:00pm - 8:00pm, Thu 28 Jul 2011
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Cosmic gems
In the Wild West Lecture - S2 2011
Alex Bevan, Head of Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
7.00pm, Thursday 8 September - Geraldton › [Book Online Now]
10.00am, Friday 9 September - Geraldton › [Book Online Now]Meteorites have been used for human adornment for millennia. The oldest examples have been found in the tombs of ancient Egypt, but the practice of making jewellery continues to the present day. Learn how and when these 'cosmic gems' were made.
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Pigment use from the ochre mine of Wilgie Mia
In the Wild West Lecture - S2 2011
Vicky Winton, Eureka Archaeological Research and Consulting, UWA & Ansell Egan, Wajarri Traditional Owner
7.00pm, Thursday 27 October - Geraldton › [Book Online Now]
10.00am, Friday 28 October - Geraldton › [Book Online Now]Explore research investigations by Wajarri Traditional Owners and UWA archaeologists to trace the use of ochre at the nationally heritage-listed Aboriginal ochre mine of Wilgie Mia in the Mid West region of WA.
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