Comments on: Meet your president…five minutes with Bruce Baskerville https://www.phansw.org.au/meet-your-president-five-minutes-with-bruce-baskerville/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=meet-your-president-five-minutes-with-bruce-baskerville Thu, 10 Dec 2020 09:49:49 +0000 hourly 1 By: Bruce Baskerville https://www.phansw.org.au/meet-your-president-five-minutes-with-bruce-baskerville/#comment-40081 Sun, 20 Jul 2014 23:54:52 +0000 http://www.phansw.org.au/?p=1536#comment-40081 A few people have asked me about the location in the picture. It is in the dining room of Government House on Norfolk Island, built 1804, burnt down 1814, ‘restored’ (as they said at the time) in 1829, and several more times since, most recently 1988. The big dining table is made of NSW red cedar, c1830, and somehow survived in that room ever since (basically, it was too big for anyone to be able to get it out again!), has lots of interesting historical grafitti and initials scratched into it. That Government House is, as I now know from the world heritage nomination work, the oldest vice-regal residence in Australia, in the Commonwealth (and therefore the world) that is still used for its original purpose. There is usually a public open-day once a month, so if you’re visiting the island at such a time, a visit is well worth while.

]]> By: “Members’ Circular” Editor Muses About Heraldry as a Historical Resource | The Australian Heraldry Society https://www.phansw.org.au/meet-your-president-five-minutes-with-bruce-baskerville/#comment-38789 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 00:26:58 +0000 http://www.phansw.org.au/?p=1536#comment-38789 […] The full interview can be found at http://www.phansw.org.au/meet-your-president-five-minutes-with-bruce-baskerville/ […]

]]> By: Katherine Knight https://www.phansw.org.au/meet-your-president-five-minutes-with-bruce-baskerville/#comment-38623 Tue, 15 Jul 2014 06:21:29 +0000 http://www.phansw.org.au/?p=1536#comment-38623 Thanks Bruce – most interesting. I really like your statement that a sense of history helps counter the disempowerment of cynicism; it frees people to act.

]]> By: Bruce Baskerville https://www.phansw.org.au/meet-your-president-five-minutes-with-bruce-baskerville/#comment-38586 Tue, 15 Jul 2014 00:30:45 +0000 http://www.phansw.org.au/?p=1536#comment-38586 In reply to Emma Dortins.

The Doctor never travels alone!

]]> By: Emma Dortins https://www.phansw.org.au/meet-your-president-five-minutes-with-bruce-baskerville/#comment-38491 Mon, 14 Jul 2014 08:48:59 +0000 http://www.phansw.org.au/?p=1536#comment-38491 Great to hear what you’d up to Bruce, and to have some more insight into why heraldry fascinates you so. Like Pauline, I’ve never been a big fan of sci-fi – but recently have been thinking that the history of the future is a really captivating topic, and would love to come along in your tardis for a trip some time if you’re taking passengers.

]]> By: Pauline Curby https://www.phansw.org.au/meet-your-president-five-minutes-with-bruce-baskerville/#comment-38324 Sun, 13 Jul 2014 07:56:39 +0000 http://www.phansw.org.au/?p=1536#comment-38324 PHA (NSW & ACT) is lucky to have such a thoughtful president at the moment! I can’t say I share Bruce’s love of sci fi but then he might not be enamoured with 19th century British and Russian authors!

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