Federation of Australian Historical Societies
| Founded | 1977 |
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| Type | peak organisation; historical society; incorporated association |
| ABN: 89 217 386 291 | |
| Registration no. | A02074 (Associations Incorporation Act 1991 (Australian Capital Territory)) |
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| Website | www |
The Federation of Australian Historical Societies (FAHS) is the peak body for historical societies throughout Australia. It has eight constituent members, one in each of the Australian states and internal self-governing territories. It lobbies governments on behalf of the sector and has formed alliances with other related bodies. It promotes uniform national standards through guides and other publications and fosters historical research, writing and education through fellowships and awards.
The FAHS has published a number of guides to assist historical societies (see Publications). The FAHS also distributes a regular e-bulletin and a bi-annual newsletter, both by email. They contain information on heritage or historical matters at a national or state level, with occasional international news.
The FAHS appoints Fellows in recognition of their significant contribution to the understanding, preservation and promotion of Australian history on a national level, though the local history movement. A Fellow of the FAHS is entitled to use the post nominal letters FFAHS.
The FAHS awards Certificates of Merit to members of its constituent societies in recognition of a significant contribution in two or more state or territory.
The constituent members of FAHS are:
In its current form, the Federation was incorporated on 6 June 1992 under the 'Associations Incorporation Act 1991 (Australian Capital Territory) with a constitution adopted in Hobart on 22 September 1991. This succeeded an earlier incorporation which formed in 1977.
It is governed between general meetings by a committee which consists of two delegates from each of its constituent members which are the peak bodies representing historical societies in their respective state or internal self-governing territory. The committee holds four meetings a year, three times by teleconference, and once in a represented state or territory on a rotating basis.
The FAHS maintains a part-time office in Canberra.
In 1977, the Federation of Australian Historical Societies was formed as a peak council for on-going state-based societies whose origins were in the early years of the 20th century.
With the close of the colonial period at Federation, a number of state-based historical societies began to be formed: 1901 in New South Wales, the Australian Historical Society; in 1909, the Historical Society of Victoria; in 1913, the Historical Society of Queensland; 1926, the Western Australian Historical Society; in 1926, the South Australian Historical Society (dissolved 1930-31) and, in 1935, the Pioneers Association of South Australia, 1935.
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