Up Coming Events 

Members  and non members welcome

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  • ​​​​​​​​​Thursday 8th July 2021 ​
 SSHS members and friends will visit Vaucluse House,
explore the house and have a tour of the extensive gardens. Train from
Sutherland at 9.30. At Edgecliff change to 325 bus which stops outside
Vaucluse House. Bring sensible shoes, BYO lunch or buy lunch at café on
the premises.
Contact Joe Hales 0418 270 744​

 Coming General Meetings

​​​Members , guests and non members welcome
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  • ​Saturday 17 July 2021

​​  The speaker in July is John MacRitchie his talk is called St George  to the Rescue. St George District Ambulance to 1930. He will be referencing Sutherland Shire in his talk.
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Due to Covid19 restrictions we  are asking if you are wanting to attend our meetings please email shirehistory@gmail.com to register and secure your seat.   

  • ​Saturday  21st August 2021
Helen Zerefos will be our speaker this  month. Helen spent most of her childhood growing up in Sylvania and became a well respected singer. 
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  • Saturday  18 September 2021
SSHS AGM , we would like to see a few members step up and volunteer for positions within the Society.

  • Saturday  16 October 2021
Stephen Gapps  will be the speaker this month on The Sydney Wars.
Resistance warfare in the Sydney region, 1788-1817
The Sydney Wars were some of what the British at the time called ‘small wars’ – minor conflicts that took place across the empire, but nonetheless recognised as war. These ‘small wars’ occurred around the greater Sydney region, across the Cumberland Plain, along the Hawkesbury and Nepean Rivers and into the Blue Mountains, between 1788 and 1817.
In this talk, Dr Stephen Gapps, a Sydney based museum curator, historian and president of the History Council of NSW, will consider the military occupation of Aboriginal lands around Sydney and their connection to Governor Macquarie’s push to occupy the Bathurst Plains from 1815. He will also discuss his forthcoming work on the Bathurst War 1822-1824 and how we should understand these conflicts and resistance as one of the many Australian Frontier Wars that only ended in the early 20th century. 
In 2011 Stephen won the NSW Premiers History Prize for Regional and Community history and since then he has held a position as a curator at the Australian National Maritime Museum. In 2021 he is Senior Curator leading the development of a new permanent display at the museum that explores deep time, environmental and Indigenous histories. 

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  • Saturday  20 November 2021
The speaker this month will be Matt Murphy, author of A Distilled History of Colonial Australia. Matt is an historian and he
tolerates the attitudes of kids towards history that he used to share. His previous book, Weight of Evidence, is about what was the longest civil court case in New South Wales. Matt's younger self would be aghast that he is now writing history books