Events Next week
Matt Allen - Toasting democracy: the ‘national banquets’
- 9 Aug
- Blackheath, NSW
Toasting democracy: the ‘national banquets’ During the 1850s, a series of mass public dinners were held in the newly ‘responsible’ Australasian colonies, broadly, to celebrate democracy. Hundreds of newly enfranchised men dined together, sometimes al...