One Hundred Years - Treasured Objects of History West, the Royal Western Australian Historical Society, part 3: Colonial Keepsakes, Dorothy Erickson

Article from Vol 48 no 3, August 2026

One Hundred Years - Treasured Objects of History West, the Royal Western Australian Historical Society, part 3: Colonial Keepsakes, Dorothy Erickson

Abstract:

Dr Dorothy Erickson continues her account of the past 100 years of History West, demonstrating how the Society's art and artefact collections illustrate the history of Western Australia through its people, politics, agriculture and industries. Collections such as theirs, and their female volunteer supporters, give greater prominence to the role of women than you find in written history, as Dorothy demonstrates.

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