Eureka Centre Community Event
Monday 17 November, from 6pm
Join Ben Mountford and Simon J Potter as they explore Ballarat and Bristol’s connected radical histories, how they have been understood over time, and how thinking about the past can help us understand contemporary issues.
Ballarat may be separated from Bristol, England by thousands of miles, but both cities have strong traditions of radical protest. In the nineteenth century, these British and Australian traditions were connected by a common radical culture and set of political ideas and associations. These traditions have powerful resonances today.
Presented by the Eureka Centre as part of the Australia ICOMOS and City of Ballarat National Conference ‘Our Shared Heritage. Un-Settling Ground’ and supported by the University of Bristol’s Benjamin Meaker Bequest, Australia Catholic University, and the Victorian Goldfields World Heritage bid.
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Image: William James Müller, ‘The Burning of the Toll Houses on Prince Street Bridge with St Mary Redcliffe’, 1831.
Photograph: Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives.
Australia ICOMOS and the City of Ballarat are proud to acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land which includes Ballarat today, the Wadawurrung and Dja Dja Wurrung People, and recognise their continuing connection to the land and waterways.
We pay our respects to all Elders, past and present, and extend this to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.