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Today was Fremantle Studies Day 2025, this year's instalment of the annual day of talks put on by the FHS to launch the previous year's Fremantle Studies journal and for the authors of next year's to present their papers. It was held at the Army Museum, which is just up the road from me and so the damp weather didn't at all dissuade me from going. If anything, the drizzle just made Victoria Barracks a bit more atmospheric. Although, I had hoped to get some more photos than I did (because Commons hasn't very many, oddly for a military history topic).
It was a nice venue, the lecture room of the WA Army Museum, although acoustically perhaps not optimum (with stampeding of children on the wooden floors above and a weird re-verb that seemed to be enabled on the PA). Good food, and more importantly nice people to talk to. My main involvement with the History Society is to get their newsletters online, and now to get Fremantle Studies also uploaded to Freopedia. So I've got some homework to do.
The lecture room is also a gallery of honour boards, mostly WW1 I think. Only one that I saw is directly related to Fremantle, and I'll try to get its people listed on Freopedia soon.
There were meant to be four presentations, but due to the late change of venue one (Neil Stanbury) could not attend. This weekend's only uncontestedly re-elected councillor, Fedele Camarda, introduced the day.
At lunch I got chatting with one of the volunteer archivists of the Army Museum and she showed me around their library and archive. It's an impressive place. I shall try to book a time to go and research Frank Hussey, in case they have any Rottnest-related material.
Of the actual content of the presentations, I will post more later.
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Max Vickery -
Leigh Straw -
Aurora Philpin
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