Hunter Living Histories 2019 Report

Please find attached Hunter Living Histories 2019 report (to 2/12/2019) displaying the highlights of activities and impacts of the UON’s Cultural Collections/GLAMx Lab in association with the Hunter Living Histories.

This presentation was delivered at yesterday’s meeting (2 December 2019), the last meeting of the year and attended by the Member for Wallsend, Sonia Hornery MP and City of Newcastle Ward 2 Councilor, Carol Duncan.

Slide1 – Hunter Living Histories 2019 report (to 2/12/2019) displaying the highlights of activities and impacts of the UON’s Cultural Collections/GLAMx Lab in association with the Hunter Living Histories.

 

Slide2 – Statistics Website (100K)

 

Slide3 – UONCC YouTube 53.5K

 

Slide 4 – UONCC Soundcloud 7.4K

 

Slide 5 – UONCC Flickr, Cumulative 57+ million hits

 

Slide 6 – Living Histories @ UON hits 700+K for November alone!

 

Slide 7 – Stories and Discoveries

5,500 Place Names of Aboriginal and European Origin Across NSW:
https://hunterlivinghistories.com/2019/05/16/stretch/

2019 stories archives:
https://hunterlivinghistories.com/2019/

Slide 8 – Stories and Discoveries Oldest known photograph

Miss Hayes and The Great Northern Hotel Album:
https://hunterlivinghistories.com/2019/04/08/miss-hayes/

The Hunter Region’s earliest photograph? :
https://hunterlivinghistories.com/2019/03/07/earliest-photograph/

 

Slide 9 – William Arthur Squire

William Arthur Squire:
https://hunterlivinghistories.com/2018/06/22/william-arthur-squire/

Side 10 – Work Integrated Learning (WIL)

 

Slide 11 – Student Exhibitions – Jodi Vial

“Dandelion: The words and images of Josiah Cocking” By Jodi Vial:
https://hunterlivinghistories.com/2019/01/17/exhibition-cocking/

 

Slide 11 – Student Exhibitions – Ashlea Oliver

 

Slide 13 – Remembrance Day 2019

Remembrance Day 2019:
https://hunterlivinghistories.com/2019/11/11/rem-day-2019/

Slide 14 – Women Convicts of the Hunter Book Launch

 

“They sent me North: Female Convicts in the Hunter” – Book Launch:
https://hunterlivinghistories.com/2019/08/06/women/

Slide 15 – Store Oral History Project

The Store Oral History Project:
https://hunterlivinghistories.com/2019/09/27/tsorp/

Slide 16 – Vera Deacon Regional History Fund

 

The Vera Deacon Regional History Fund:
https://uoncc.wordpress.com/vera-deacon-fund/

Slide 17 – Volunteers

Final Figures for Volunteers 2019 (January-December):
46 volunteers provided 6,537.5 hours (933.93 days) of unpaid work.
Cost to them collectively was $41,563 dollars (calculated at $44.50 per day)

Slide 18 – Instagram

Hunter Living Histories on Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/hunterlivinghistories/

Slide 19 – Social Media Upgrades (WIL)

 

Hunter Living Histories – Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/hunterlivinghistories/

Slide 20 – GLAMx AV Digitisation Lab

GLAMx AV: The 2020 Hit-List:
https://hunterlivinghistories.com/2020/01/15/glamx-av-2020/

 

Slide 21 – Vale Russell Rigby

Tribute to Russell Rigby:
https://hunterlivinghistories.com/2019/09/28/russell-rigby/

Slide 22 Media Promotions for Deep Time Project and Vera Deacon Fund Promotional Ad for NBN Television

Media Promotion: Virtual Reality Unearths ancient Indigenous artefacts:
https://www.newcastle.edu.au/newsroom/featured/virtual-reality-unearths-ancient-indigenous-artefacts
https://hunterlivinghistories.com/2017/11/17/deep-time-project/

Media Promotion: NBN TV Vera Decon Regional History Fund Promo:
https://hunterlivinghistories.com/2019/02/25/promo/

 

Slide 23 – International Conference Presentations

Australian Society of Archivists International Conference 2019:
https://hunterlivinghistories.com/2020/01/15/asa-2019/

 

Slide 24 – Other Achievements

The Definitive Algernon Henry Belfield Climate Archive:
https://hunterlivinghistories.com/2018/05/14/belfield-climate-archive/

Hunter Living Histories Weather Records & Climatic data:
https://hunterlivinghistories.com/category/weather-records-climatic-data/

Slide 25 – Thanks to Everyone

Hunter Rainbow History Group:
https://livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/59991

Gionni Di Gravio
University Archivist & Chair, HLH


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