Hunter Living Histories Showcase Monday 6 May 2024 (1.00pm-2.30pm) Link to ZOOM meeting available HERE WHERE: via ZOOM link Available or in Room L326, Auchmuty Library, Callaghan Campus, Newcastle. (Type Room no. into ONLINE MAP) WHEN – Monday 6 May 2024 (1.00pm-2.30pm) Acknowledgement to Country (Gionni di Gravio OAM) PRESENTER – Brickworks evolution into a … More Hunter Living Histories – May 2024 Showcase
Val Blackett: Kindness, Valour and Humour features the wartime experiences of a teenage gunner stationed at Newcastle and Stockton. It is the twentieth film produced by the Stories of Our Town team. The Most Important Job in Australia Valerie Jean Blackett was one of a number of girls who were stationed at Wave Battery as … More Val Blackett: Kindness, Valour and Humour – Stories of Our Town Series 2 Launches ANZAC Day 2024
Hunter Living Histories Showcase Monday 8 April 2024 (1.00pm-2.30pm) Welcome (Ann Hardy) PRESENTER – “Miniature Newcastle : Celebrating Newcastle’s Rail and Industry Heritage” (Assoc. Prof. Garry Glazebrook) WATCH HERE – PowerPoint Presentation HERE UPDATES FROM THE REGIONS Welcome to Newcastle Family History Society Podcasts LISTEN HERE Regional GLAM Institutions Updates Hunter Regional Committee Hunter National Trust Updates … More Hunter Living Histories April Showcase
The Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales has digitised an album of 126 pencil and watercolour drawings by H. Grant Lloyd containing a number of views of Newcastle and the townships of the Hunter Valley in October 1878 and February-March 1879. The title of the album is: Volume 2: Sketches of N. S. … More Newcastle & The Hunter Captured in Watercolours by H. Grant Lloyd, 1878-1879
What Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen Nightmares Can Teach Us About GLAM. Lightning Talk. Delivered at GLAMSLAM 2024 at the Australian National Maritime Museum in partnership with the Australian Centre for Public History by Gionni Di Gravio OAM, University Archivist, University of Newcastle (Australia) Introduction To the Audience: Who loves Gordon Ramsay? Who loves swearing? At … More What Can Gordon Ramsay Teach Us About GLAM?
Hunter Living Histories Showcase Monday 4 March 2024 (1.00pm-2.30pm) WHEN – Monday 4 March 2024 (1.00pm-2.30pm) Welcome (Gionni di Gravio OAM) SPECIAL GUEST – Carol Ridgeway-Bissett, proud Worimi woman will join us. VIEW HERE Presenter – 200 Years of Tahlee, Carrington and the AA Co. (Janis Winn) VIEW HERE Presenter – “Stockton Stories – Community Digital Archive” … More Hunter Living Histories March 2024 Showcase
In December 2022, Mr Ian Sherman was interviewed at the GLAMx Lab about his historic brick collection and spoke with Dr Ann Hardy about his extensive collection of over 7000 bricks mostly associated with the Newcastle Region that he has amassed over six decades. During the interview Julien Gillard (Makerspace SPSA) 3D scanned some of … More The Brick Collector
![Magill [picture] / [Richard Browne] [ca. 1819] Courtesy of the National Library of Australia.](https://hunterlivinghistories.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/1819-Magill-Browne-365x365.jpg?crop=1)
Biraban – A Warrior, Not A Servant by Leigh Budden Warning to Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Peoples: This paper contains reference to cultural practices surrounding male initiation – but does not provide secret details about these ceremonies. It also contains the names of Aboriginal People who are deceased. The author pays respect to … More Biraban – A Warrior, Not A Servant.
Hunter Living Histories Showcase Tuesday 6 Feb 2024 (1.00pm-2.30pm) Welcome (Gionni di Gravio OAM) PRESENTER “Wilf Goold, Local preserver of Newcastle history & Dangar book – the issue of provenance” (Ross Edmonds) – VIEW HERE UPDATES FROM THE REGIONS Regional GLAM Institutions Updates Hunter Regional Committee Hunter National Trust Updates HOT TOPIC DISCUSSION 2024! Discussions … More Hunter Living Histories February 2024 Showcase
ALLA As an Awabakal Traditional Owner, I want to draw your attention to a project that has recently kicked off in the Hunter Valley called the Hunter Transmission Project (HTP). https://www.energyco.nsw.gov.au/projects/hunter-transmission-project The Proposal This project proposes a major power transmission line corridor to carry 500 (kv) lines from Bayswater to Eraring power stations. … More Hunter Transmission Project (HTP) – Concerns for Aboriginal and Living Cultural Heritage