Film screening – Madge & Bibs and the Advancing Girls

A documentary film produced and directed by Rob George. The Advanced School for Girls, was Australia’s first state high school and aimed to educate..

Moving between re-enactments of letters and newspaper interviews, personal anecdotes and interviews with leading historians and the Governor of South Australia, Her Excellency, Frances Adamson, “Madge & Bibs and the Advancing Girls” paints an entertaining, engaging and extraordinary picture of a radical colony that uses education to transform the status of women in society, politics and their own hearts and minds.

Part of South Australia History Week Festival

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