Hoarder or historian? Is our history in a drawer, a scrapbook, or a curated collection?
I, Mandy Bede, will be taking up one of my last ESA president activities on 29 July 2025. My talk will focus on a selection from Ephemera Society member collections, teasing out the theme of how our history is preserved. I will be showing examples of printed Australian ephemeral material from the sublime to the mundane. Regardless of how these items have been collected and preserved, or by whom, or for whatever reason, they form part of the remarkable commonwealth of documents that record our past.
The talk will be followed by a late morning tea and so the opportunity to talk about ephemera.
Presented by: Ephemera Society of Australia
Royal Historical Society of Victoria, 328 A’Beckett Street 11am-12noon
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Rare Book Week talk 29 July 2025
Mandy Bede will draw on ephemera scrapbooks, curated collections, collections of found objects to check whether we are historians or hoarders. (We are historians.)
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