The next meeting of the Society will be held at 5.30pm on Tuesday, 20th July.
The speaker will be Rose Lovelock, Director of the Armidale Aboriginal Cultural Centre and Keeping Place, where the meeting will be held. The title of the talk will be -‘Getting to know the Armidale Aboriginal Keeping Place and its Director.’

The Keeping Place is at 96-104 Kentucky Street and is beautifully set up as a Museum, Art
Gallery and display centre and where we can comply with the 4 square metres per person
rule. Masks will need to be worn.

I apologise for not uploading the June newsletter and meeting information -see below links for the June and July newsletters:

A reminder also that membership renewals are now due:

The monthly meeting on Tuesday, 20th April will be held at 5.30pm at Dumaresq
Chambers. This will be the first meeting for over a year that we have been able to
hold in our own premises.

Jim Swales will talk on his extensive collection of fundraising badges which provides a unique history of organisations which have supported a variety of causes over the years: Wartime and Fund-Raising Badges of Australia.

Badges are now rarely sold and we have lost another tangible aspect of history.

The April newsletter is now available:

The next meeting of the Society will be held on Tuesday, 16th March 2021 at 5.30pm.
It will be held at the Dangarsleigh Hall, just over 8kms along the Dangarsleigh
Road. The speaker will be Sue Tanner, who has researched and prepared a talk on
‘A Mystery Bushranger’ the New England, which will be a fascinating insight into
the bushranging days and one of the wily men involved.

The March newsletter is now been available. Click on he link below to download:

A Happy New Year and may it be an improvement on the last! As we need to be Covid19 compliant, we are unable to have our meetings at Dumaresq Chambers.

The February meeting will be held the New England Art Museum (NERAM) at 5.30pm on Tuesday, 16th February with Margaret Bain’s talk, Hinton and Friends: The Beginning of Life-long Friendships. This talk is based on the recently found diaries written by Howard Hinton which provide a fascinating insight into life around the turn of the 19th century.

The February newsletter is now available:with a report of October’s AGM, and the November excursion, and other news and snippets of history.

Unfortunately we’re still not able to meet due to COVID-19 restrictions, but our research rooms are open with safety procedures in place. And here’s the September newsletter, to keep you up-to-date with news and snippets.

Unfortunately due to the Covid virus we’re unable to meet at present. Social distancing may have to continue for some time. The Committee are following developments and will recommence meetings with appropriate safeguards when it is possible to do so.

Our May newsletter is therefore a little longer than usual, and includes the address given by Peter Elliot at the very small Anzac Day service at the Dangarsleigh War Memorial – you can read the address in the newsletter, or watch a video of the service (linked below.)

The new Facebook group is going very well with many photos posted and much discussion, so please do join in if you’re on Facebook by clicking this link.

And here’s the Dangarsleigh (very small, police approved) Anzac Day service for those who missed the earlier post:

We hope all members and friends are keeping well during this time of social distancing and isolation.

To help members to keep in touch and to encourage research and discussion the Committee has approved the establishment of a Facebook group for the Historical Society. If you’re on Facebook, the link to the group is: https://www.facebook.com/groups/331108067862859/

Do come and join members and friends in the Facebook group, and do feel welcome to share your stories, history, and ideas.

Dear members, we’re living in worrying times, Our President, Judy Grieves has asked me to post a notice that the ADHS committee are in agreement that we cancel the April and May monthly meetings of the Society at this stage and have cancelled the meat tasting on 27 March. 

The Memorial Service for John Hamel  which was to be held tomorrow (23rd March) 10am at the Uniting Church has been postponed to a later date. 

Volunteers with keys can access Dumaresq Chambers as they wish, but there is no onus to
do shifts at the centre. JudyI will continue to do a Newsletter to send out and put on the website.

We had such high hopes for 2020 when the rains came – but who would have guessed the global heartbreak and chaos that it heralded? 

We sincerely hope that all members keep well and hunker down.

Due to Coronavirus (Covid-19) concerns and precautions, the meeting planned for tomorrow night (17th March) at NERAM has been cancelled.

The first regular meeting will be held on Tuesday 18th February at 7.30pm at
‘Dumaresq Chambers when Matthew Tierney will present Armidale Railway Station
Open for Business. outlining how public expression of the people from 1870 to 2004
brought mainline trains to the Northern Tablelands and kept them running.

We will instigate a $1a ticket monthly raffle to be drawn at each meeting.

The chambers will be open from about 7pm, so do come early, have a cuppa and a catch up chat with fellow members before the meeting. All welcome.