Guest Speaker: Brian Scales Local History in the Inner West Council Collections (with a Few Detours) Brian is a Community History Officer with Inner West Council Library and History Services, based at Ashfield Library. The Society’s AGM will be held on 9 February at the Summer Hill Community Centre, 131 Smith Street, Summer Hill.  The … Continue reading "Annual General Meeting and launch of the Society’s latest Journal: Summer Hill Village"

A talk by Wal Walker on his book “The Squatters’ Grab” which traces the failure of various governments and colonial administrators to discharge their obligations to Indigenous Australians; failure that gave rise to the ascendancy of the squatters and dispossession of the Aboriginal people, and attempts to unravel how and why it all went so wrong! Wal Walker is the … Continue reading "The Squatters’ Grab"