- Event:
- Women, Children and Welfare History in the Archives
- Start:
- March 14, 2012 1:00 pm
- End:
- March 14, 2012 2:30 pm
- Cost:
- free
- Category:
- Family History Expos, Seminars & Workshops
- Organizer:
- Phone:
- 9348 5600
- Email:
- enquiries@prov.vic.gov.au
- Updated:
- January 18, 2012
- Venue:
- Public Record Office Victoria
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Address:
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99 Shiel Street, North Melbourne, Victoria, 3051, Australia
The Public Record of Victoria and the Australian Women’s Register Project extend an invitation to a seminar to commemorate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month:
Panellists:
Shurlee Swain – ‘Making their case: archival traces of mothers and children in negotiation with child welfare officials’
Charlie Farrugia – ‘The wardship records in the PROV Collection’
Nikki Henningham – ‘What’s New with the Australian Women’s Register’.
The seminar aims to raise the profile of the Australian Women’s Register and to highlight the richness of the PROV in locating records about women and their contribution to Victorian society.
Professor Shurlee Swain is a professor of Humanities at the Australian Catholic University. She specialises in Australian social history, including religious, women’s, children’s and welfare history.
Dr Charlie Farrugia is Senior Collections Adviser at PROV.
Dr Nikki Henningham is the Executive officer of the AWAP, a committee of the National Foundation for Women.
Refreshments are available from Café 99 in the Public Record Office building.