Book+Author - Bennelong and Phillip (Dr Kate Fullagar)

Book+Author - Bennelong and Phillip

Apr

Thursday, April 18, 2024 at 06:00 PM

Location

The Wheeler Centre
176 Little Lonsdale St
Melbourne, VIC 3000
Australia
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Event contact

Stephanie Holt

In April 2024, the HCV’s Book+Author series returns to the Wheeler Centre.

Curated and hosted by Dr Yves Rees, the series showcases new books from some of Australia’s most exciting historians. On Thursday 18 April, please join us for another intimate conversation about researching and telling stories of the past.

Smiling faces of Yves Rhys and Kate Fullagar with cover of book Bennelong & Philip

Bennelong & Phillip: A History Unravelled

Dr Yves Rees will be in-conversation with Dr Kate Fullagar, award-winning historian and author of Bennelong and Phillip (Simon & Schuster, 2023).

Kate's fascinating work Bennelong and Phillip: A History Unravelled is a dual biography of Bennelong and Phillip, leaders of their respectives sides in the first encounters between Britain and Indigenous Australians, Phillip being the colony’s first governor, and Bennelong the Yiyura leader. The pair have come to represent the conflict that flared and has never settled.

Through an innovative non-linear exploration, Kate not only provides the first biography of Bennelong but challenges common misconceptions of both men, while sharing their intriguing personal, domestic and familial lives as well.

This is a paid event in the Friends of the HCV book club series, Book+Author.

Friends of the HCV receive discounted tickets to this event, and a priority booking period when every Friend of the HCV can book a ticket for themselves and one friend.

To join the Friends of the HCV, click here.

Posted by on March 28, 2024

Will you come?

$20.00 Friends of the HCV (with plus one) HCV Friends bringing a friend

$20.00 General public

$15.00 General public (concession) Students and Concession Card holders

$10.00 Friends of the HCV Subscribers to the HCV Friends

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Image credits

Italian sailors on ship at Port Melbourne 1938, Argus Newspaper Collection of Photographs, State Library of Victoria
Chinese procession in Collins near Elizabeth Street 1901, Harvie & Sutcliffe, photographers, State Library of Victoria
People’s homes, Aboriginal station Coranderrk 1878, Fred Kruger Photographer, State Library of Victoria
Chinese nurses at Children’s Hospital under scholarship 1947, Argus Newspaper Collection of Photographs, State Library of Victoria
Ladies physical culture class VRI Melbourne c1931, Public Record Office Victoria VPRS 12903/P0001, 011/02
Melbourne Cup, Derby and Oaks Day, Flemington Racecourse 1936, Public Record Office Victoria VPRS 12903/P0001/4802, 372/30
Flinders Street viaduct at foot of Market Street with advertisement for McRobertson’s Chocolate on bridge, Public Record Office Victoria VPRS 12800/P0003, ADV 1342