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HHS Nomination for a Cultural Affairs Award 2016/17
Victoria Cross Remembered – 100 years later
Ella Gordon’s Story
Horse Whisperer’s Story Comes to Stage in Hermanus
Anne Frank Exhibition
Marine Hotel at FynArts
Plaque to be erected at ‘wasbakkies’
Economic Issues- An Historical Overview of Hermanus
Marketing Hermanus Internationally Workshop
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Stitching communities together – A Hermanus History Society Project
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Chairpersons Tenth Annual Report
THE HISTORY of NATIONAL SEA RESCUE INSTITUTE (NSRI) IN SOUTH AFRICA & HERMANUS- A SITE VISIT
HERMANUSPIETERSFONTEIN: WHEN, WHO, WHAT & WHY
NOTICE OF MEMBERS MEETING. SITE VISIT to VERGELEGEN WINE ESTATE
THE GREEK CHAPEL IN ONRUS IS CURRENTLY CLOSED TO VISITORS, THE RE-OPENING AND CONTACT DETAILS WILL BE ON THIS WEBSITE AT A LATER DATE.
Venue: Catholic Church Hall, Eastcliff, Hermanus
NOTICE MEMBERS MEETING-13 JUNE 2022
An oral History of Gansbaai
Heritage Resource Management: Implications and Implementation at the Local Level.
Members Meeting: Forgotten Overberg Routes
THE HISTORY OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN RED CROSS AND, IN PARTICULAR, THE WORK OF THE HERMANUS RED CROSS
ARTISTS AND WRITERS IN GREATER HERMANUS HISTORY
A History of Human Settlements in the Overstrand Area
UPDATE ON ACTIVITIES OF THE HERMANUS HISTORY SOCIETY: AUGUST 2021
EXCURSION IN VOLMOED- THE HISTORY FROM PREHISTORIC TIMES TO THE PRESENT, A CHRISTIAN RETREAT.
HERMANUS HISTORY SOCIETY MEMBERS MEETING
The history of High Street, Hermanus
YOUTUBE VIDEOS
THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN HERMANUS AND TWO WELLKNOWN JEWISH FAMILIES
HERMANUS HISTORY SOCIETY: PROGRAMME FOR 2021
How a message in a bottle and a child’s photos taken in Bechuanaland in the 1950s became history.
Chairpersons Report: 31 December 2020
ACTIVITIES IN 2021
VISIT TO MOUNT PLEASANT: POSTPONED
Members Meeting: Monday 27 January 2020
Members Meeting: Monday 18 November 2019
THEATRE AND THE PURSUIT OF NON-RACIALISM IN APARTHEID CITIES
HOW TO DO AND PRESENT LOCAL HISTORY
THE LIVING TAPESTRY PROJECT – threads that bind us together presented by Angela Heslop
Members Meeting: Monday 22 July 2019
A JOURNEY THROUGH HISTORY: THE HEMEL-EN-AARDE VALLEY
A GUIDED TOUR of ST. PETER’S PARISH CHURCH
CHAIRPERSON’S SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT: 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018
‘BLACK OCTOBER’ 1918: THE SPANISH FLU EPIDEMIC IN SOUTH AFRICA
GOEDVERTROUW IN A NUTSHELL
MY SECRET VENICE
Grave Encounters: What is so fascinating about the burial grounds of Green Point, Cape Town?
RE-THINKING HERMANUS HISTORY: ECONOMIC GROWTH IN A UNIQUE SOUTH AFRICAN TOWN PRESENTED BY ROBIN LEE
Zwelihle: An Oral History Project
Site Visit to Greyton with Felicity Jervis
HISTORY EXCURSION TO GREYTON WITH FELICITY JERVIS
The Selected Letters of Marthinus Theunis Steyn (1904-1910). A Tale of Courage and Obstinacy
Heart and Home report
Aberdeen Street in history – 1870 to 2017
The Story of Dr. James Barry
The History of Hamilton-Russel Vineyards
Tesselaarsdal the village and Peter Clarke, the South African Artist
The Battle of Delville Wood
TOPIC: THE HISTORY OF THE VOLMOED COMMUNITY FOR RECONCILIATION AND HEALING SINCE 1986
The Golden Age of the Diamond City: Social Life in Kimberley: 1871–1920
Strandveld Museum recent History Visit (Gansbaai)
Presentation by Miss Elsa Nel – 1941-2016: Years of Hermanus High School History
Presentation by Robin Lee: History of the De Wets Huis Photographic Museum: 1983 to 2016
Historical Public Space: Balancing Present uses with Historic Meaning
Excursion To Historic Stanford 4 July 2016
Sharing Our Fishing Heritage
Presentation on Thomas Charles Bain by Robin Richards
Hermanus was the home of the world’s oldest living professional photographer, Thomas Ravenscroft-a photographic legacy. (Felicity Jervis)
Historical accounts of the survivors of shipwrecks along the south east coast of South Africa
Family Treasure
Hermanus History Society visit to COMPAGNESDRIFT (Botriver)
History members in Aberdeen Street
Through the Lens (Thomas Ravenscroft)
