Historian and author Professor Janet McCalman AC, will be the guest speaker at Kyneton U3A this Friday, September 19.
Janet McCalman is known for her award-winning books – Struggletown, Journeyings and Sex and Suffering.
For more than 20 years, she taught and researched interdisciplinary history at the University of Melbourne. In 2018 she was made a Companion of the Order of Australia.
This presentation will be drawn from Janet’s history, Vandemonians – the repressed history of colonial Victoria.
Why is there a chapter – The Road to Kyneton – in this history of former Tasmanian convicts in Victoria?
Discover the story of Vandemonian convicts in Kyneton.
Friday@U3A happens at the Redbrick Hall, 23 Yaldwyn Street W. on Fridays during school term time. Presentations are at 2pm and finish up with a cup of tea.
This program is open to the public – you don’t have to be a member of U3A Kyneton to attend.
