3-11 September 2016 | #HistoryWeek16 Join St Lazarus Serbian Orthodox Church congragation for an evening of discovery, as they explore the history of friendship between Australia and Serbia, formed in colonial times, evolving as Australias colonies achieved nationhood at Federation, and immortalised through alliance on the battlefields of World War I. Uncover the stories of the people who served as honorary consuls of Serbia, mingling with the high society of the colonial (and later state) capitals, as well as some of the Australians who served as medical volunteers with the Serbian Army during World War I, through photographs, newspaper archives, early motion pictures and important documents, including the Treaty of Friendship and Commerce with Serbia from 1880. We learned more from Mirjana Djukic
The theme of neighbours is crucial to our understanding of the pasts impact on the present. It includes stories of individuals, families and communities living near one another and links between adjoining suburbs, regions and countries. As the success of the Australian television program Neighbours shows, the theme has long been a significant component of popular culture. It shaped imagination and memories, created identities and was a source of both conflict and friendship.
How important were class, the economy, gender, governments, the media, race, religion and sport in the formation of ideas regarding neighbours? How have attitudes regarding a nations geographic neighbours determined defence, foreign, immigration, refugee and trade policies? Did new types of communication and transport from the nineteenth century onwards radically alter how neighbours and neighbourhoods were perceived? In 2016 History Week focuses on these and other related questions. http://www.historycouncilnsw.org.au/history-week
Image: Will they never come? – Serbia, The Daily Telegraph war cartoons, 1915, original drawings by Hal Eyre, courtesy State Library of New South Wales.
What: Serbia’s Honorary Consuls in Australia from the 1890s to the 1930s
When: Saturday 10 September 2016, 7:00-8:30pm
Where: St Lazarus Serbian Orthodox Church, 14 Renwick Street, Alexandria
Cost: Free
Contact: mirjanaai@yahoo.com or 0421 971 801
Presented by St Lazarus Serbian Orthodox Church.
http://www.historycouncilnsw.org.au/serbias-honorary-consuls-australia-1890s-1930s/
http://www.historycouncilnsw.org.au/history-week
