We welcome esteemed historian, Emeritus Professor Graeme Davison, AO, FASSA, FAHA to our Society. On Saturday 10 February, he will talk to members and friends about his latest publication, My Grand Father’s Clock: four centuries of a British-Australian family.
This event will be held at the Lancefield Mechanic’s Institute Annexe, The Crescent, Lancefield. Doors open at 1:30pm and Graeme’s talk will begin at 2:00pm.
Cost for the event is $35 to hear Graeme and enjoy country style refreshments including tea and coffee, local beer and local wine.
A great aunt’s bequest - a 200-year-old grandfather clock - sent historian Graeme Davison on a journey deep into his father’s family’s past. From their tribal homeland in the Scottish borders to the garrison town of Carlisle, from industrial Birmingham to Edwardian Australia, and from the great war to his own suburb and childhood.
This is the story of an ordinary family’s journey from frontier warfare and dispossession through economic turmoil and immigration to modest prosperity. As Graeme comments, this type of family history allows us to trace the history of a town, a city or even a country at the same time.
my grandfather’s clock is a moving testament to the power of family history to illuminate the present.
