Previous Talks
‘Kranji : Singapore’s War Cemetery & Memorial’, with Athanasios Tsakonas is the seventh talk in the Commonwealth Heritage Forum’s Series on ‘Cemeteries and Burial Grounds across the Commonwealth’. Completed is 1957, the Kranji War Cemetery and Memorial in Singapore is a masterwork of modernist architecture. Designed by Colin St Clair Oakes, a former Rome scholar […]
'St John's cemetery Parramatta: Improvement and social aspiration preserved in stone' with Professor Harold Mytum is the sixth talk in the Commonwealth Heritage Forum's Series on 'Cemeteries and Burial Grounds across the Commonwealth'. The talk will set the establishment and development of St John's cemetery - the oldest surviving British burial ground in mainland Australia […]
'Grave Encounters at the Cape of Good Hope' with Antonia Malan is the fifth talk in the Commonwealth Heritage Forum's Series on 'Cemeteries and Burial Grounds across the Commonwealth'. The story of graves in Green Point in Cape Town illustrates a number of past and ongoing issues around historical events and heritage management in a […]
Norfolk Island and Port Arthur are two of eleven outstanding heritage places across Australia that make up the Australian Convict Sites World Heritage Property. Collectively they are representative of the global phenomenon of the forced migration of convicts. Separated by a geographic distance of 2400km, the two sites are inextricably linked by the people who […]
Mr Ainsley Henriques’ CD talk is the third in the Commonwealth Heritage Forum's Series on 'Cemeteries and Burial Grounds across the Commonwealth'. Mr Henriques’ talk will begin with the capture of Jamaica and the approval in 1656 by Cromwell to allow Jews to settle in Port Royal. He will then cover the 1692 earthquake which […]
Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones' talk is the second in the Commonwealth Heritage Forum's Series on 'Cemeteries and Burial Grounds across the Commonwealth'. Over a thousand old British cemeteries lie in the Indian subcontinent, reminders of our shared colonial history. Some, like the Calcutta cemeteries are extremely grand, others are simple sites where graves have lost their inscriptions. […]
Chris McLean's talk is the first in the Commonwealth Heritage Forum's Series on 'Cemeteries and Burial Grounds across the Commonwealth'. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission was established in 1917 (then Imperial War Graves Commission) by Royal Charter, following the work of The Graves Registration Unit of the British Army. This unit was created by Fabian […]
Searching for Common Ground in the Gardens of the Past: Transition and Transfiguration in the Post-Colonial Landscapes of Africa and Asia. In this finale talk of the Commonwealth Heritage Forum botanic gardens series Anthony Wain will provide an overview of the historical development of botanic gardens throughout the Commonwealth. In this talk Anthony will focus […]
This lecture begins with an overview of the historic gardens of Barbados mentioned by Sir Robert Schomburgk in The History of Barbados (1848). These were the gardens of Codrington College (the first university in the British West Indies), Welchman Hall Gully (an extensive tropical orchard) and Government House. The most famous was that of Farley […]
This discussion look at the establishment of Botanic Gardens in New Zealand,focusing on Dunedin Botanic Garden, New Zealand’s first and its development over the last 159 years. With plans being designed in England and Scotland to establish settlements in New Zealand the importance of including green space for recreation and the enjoyment of beautiful plants […]
Exploring Australia’s fine network of botanic gardens had its genesis in the late 18 C, with a government garden on Sydney Cove. Australia’s fine network of botanic gardens had its genesis in the late eighteenth century, with a government garden on Sydney Cove. Since then, and especially in the mid-nineteenth century, this modest beginning has […]
Exploring the establishment, spatial diversity and plants of Jamaica’s four extant botanical gardens in Jamaica. Every flower must grow through dirt: The Making of Jamaica’s Botanical Gardens - a Commonwealth Heritage Forum Talk by Thera Edwards. Department of Geography & Geology, The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus. This presentation explores the establishment, spatial […]