Broken Hill Historical Society

You’ve made it into town from all over Oz, and from even further afield, and then maybe you’re heading out to the Mundi Mundi plains. While you are in town (before or […]

A lot has happened with the Broken Hill Historical Society (BHHSoc) in 2021. It’s true, sadly, that it’s been a year pretty much the same as with other cornerstone organisations in town. […]

Recently, a Society member, former Secretary, and now Mosque Museum volunteer, Gary Cook, has shared some of his research on two local historical areas: Australian camels and cameleers, and early Silverton. You […]

It is with great sadness the Society notes the death of Kevin ‘Bushy’ White across this last weekend. Bushy most recently had been an acclaimed Guest Speaker for Society General Meetings, once […]

Below is a link to a delightful but brief segment from the ABC’s Landline as an entry into Heywire and focusing on Jusuf, a teenager from Broken Hill’s Sufi Community who is […]

Landcare Broken Hill invites you to link in to a very special online event being held by the Australian Association of Bush Regenerators (AABR) this Friday afternoon at 5.00pm (ACST), 16 July, […]

In the last little while, our very busy Facebook page has been taking it in turns to show you one of our four museums at the top of the page. In the […]

Just added the three superb videos on the history of the cameleers in Broken Hill and the Mosque, now Mosque Museum, to the Society’s Mosque Museum page. The videos were developed across […]

Recently we had the following fascinating request from Judy Boland. If you have any information that can help her, Judy’s contact details are below her description of what information she’s looking for. […]

How many folks know/remember that it was the Barrier Field Naturalist’s Club, now just over 100 years old, who also kicked off the Broken Hill Historical Society? From early June they’re putting […]