St John's cemetery Parramatta: preserved in stone
Professor Harold Mytum will be delivering an online talk as part of the Commonwealth Heritage Forum’s Series on ‘Cemeteries and Burial Grounds across the Commonwealth. This is the sixth talk in the series, taking place on Wednesday 14 December 2022 at 6pm.
The talk will set the establishment and development of St John's cemetery - the oldest surviving British burial ground in mainland Australia - in the context of the early development of Australia and the town of Parramatta. It reveals the presence of Georgian attitudes to improvement - of convicts, the landscape and the economy - and how the most successful in the colony marked their lives in this new colony.
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