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Programme of Activities


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Programme of Activities

February-September 2008

Thursday 14 February, at 5.30 pm
Aaron Lister, curator
Manapouri: Art Power Protest
Aaron will conduct a guided tour of the exhibition on this subject.
National Library Gallery

Wednesday 26 March at 5.30 pm
HE Mr George Fergusson, High Commissioner for Britain
will launch
A special Milton issue of Off the Record
to celebrate 400 years since the birth of John Milton.
National Library foyer

Thursday 17 April at 5.30 pm
Ray Fargher, historian and educationist
will speak on his biography
The Best Man Who Ever Served the Crown? - A Life of Donald McLean
LG meeting room

Wednesday 14 May at 5.30 pm
John Sullivan, curator of the photographic archive
will speak on
The White's Aviation Collection
National Library auditorium

Thursday 19 June at 6 pm
Founder Lecture 2008
Dr Benjamin Myers, University of Queensland
will give this year's address on
The Invention of Reason: Milton and the theology of secular politics
followed by a reception
National Library auditorium

Thursday 24 July at 5.30 pm
Annual General Meeting
and presentation from the Library staff
Foyer, 1st floor, Alexander Turnbull Library,
National Library

Wednesday 3 September, at 5.30 pm
David Colquhoun, curator of manuscripts, Alexander Turnbull Library
As if Running on Air; the Journals of Jack Lovelock
National Library auditorium

Wednesday 17 September at 5.30 pm
Dick Rawson
Colonisation, War and Peace; researching the extended family of Henry Freer Rawson (1839-1879) colonist, war hero, engraver, celebrated painter, dentist and incendiarist
National Library auditorium

Friends of the Turnbull Library 2008