Memoir, education, research and food will be features of SA History Festival events at the Victor Harbor library during May.

On Friday 2 May environmental activist and former politician Sandra Kanck will discuss her memoir of a childhood in Broken Hill, ‘Nothing and Everything’.

The free session will run from 2.30pm to 3.30pm and can be booked online.

Hear about the historic beginnings of schooling at Encounter Bay, Victor Harbor, Hindmarsh Valley and Inman Valley with historian Anthony Laube on Wednesday 7 May.

To accompany the talk, which runs from 5.30pm to 6.30pm, the Victor Harbor National Trust will display historic items and information from the early schooling days of the district. Register to attend online.

Author Jennifer Mackenzie Dunbar will explain merging fact and fiction on Thursday 15 May from 2.30pm to 3.30pm.

She will use excerpts from her novel, Stolen, set in colonial South Australia, to show how she integrated facts and settings with plots and characters. Register to attend online.

On Monday 19 May the Encounter Bay Family History Group will launch a heritage cookbook, including tastings.

It will run from 11am to 12noon and places can be reserved online. Copies of the book will be available to borrow from the Victor Harbor Library.