Fremantle Studies Day 2024
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Sunday 20 October 2024 12.45 for 1.00 pm start, Fremantle History Centre, Ground Floor, Walyalup Civic Centre.
Our four speakers and their topics this year include:
- Kiara Gormlie
- Fremantle Soroptimist International. The story of the impact upon Fremantle that this women’s advocacy group has had, and the power of uniting to bring about change.
- Caroline Ingram
- Margaret Cody, 2nd woman in WA executed for murder. Margaret’s case illustrates the challenges working class women faced in the 19th century, and the way in which women, perceived not to conform to middle class values of femininity might be vilified in the press.
- Nick Everett
- Wobblies on the Waterfront. The Fremantle Industrial Workers of the World (Wobblies) in the conscription debate and subsequent upheaval on the waterfront in 1917.
- Lucy Hair
- Colonial Surgeon/Asylum Superintendent Henry Calvert Barnett and his wife Annie.