Hunter Living Histories November Showcase

Forthcoming Hunter Living Histories Showcase
Monday, 4 November 2024 1.00pm-2.30pm

Join us at 1.00pm-2.30pm for the University Library’s monthly Hunter Living Histories showcase. All Welcome.

WHERE: via ZOOM or in Room L326, Auchmuty Library, Callaghan Campus, Newcastle. (Type Room no. into ONLINE MAP)

WHEN –  Monday 4 November 2024 (1.00pm-2.30pm)

  • WELCOME & ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TO COUNTRY (Gionni di Gravio OAM)
  • VALE Ian Sherman 24/04/1943—23/09/2024 Fondly known as the “the Brickman” Listen to Oral History Interview HERE
  • PRESENTATION 1 : Material Culture and Exchange at the Australian Agricultural Company Settlement, Port Stephens, 1826-1833″ by Eleanor Foster, PhD Student, Trinity College, Cambridge.

Material Culture and Exchange at the Australian Agricultural Company Settlement, Port Stephens 1826-1833

  • PRESENTATION 2: Newcastle’s Historic Shipwreck Archaeology” Dr James Hunter (Curator of Naval Heritage and Archaeology at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney)
Dr James Hunter (Marine Archaeologist with the National Maritime Museum) with the Stories of Our Town team (Tony Whittake and Chit Chat von Loopin Stab) filming on location at Stockton N.S.W.
Dr James Hunter (Marine Archaeologist with the National Maritime Museum) with the Stories of Our Town team (Tony Whittake and Chit Chat von Loopin Stab) filming on location at Stockton N.S.W.

 

Underwater Footage of Shipwreck off Newcastle
Underwater Footage of Shipwreck off Newcastle
  • PRESENTATION 3: “Old Maps: senescence or opportunity?” Emeritus Professor Robert Clancy AM is a leading Australian clinical immunologist, in addition promotes the study of maps and mapping and has authored several books on mapping, such as “The Long Enlightenment: Australian Science from its Beginning to the mid-20th Century.”
Professor Robert Clancy showing his map collection to the Newcastle Booklovers in the Reading Room of Archives, Rare Books and Special Collections 24 August 2005
Professor Robert Clancy showing his map collection to the Newcastle Booklovers in the Reading Room of Archives, Rare Books and Special Collections 24 August 2005
  • New Stories of our Town film “Shipwrecked Newcastle” – Chit Chat von Loopin Stab and Tony Whittaker.

Shipwrecked Newcastle (2024) Premiere Screening @ Rogue Scholar

The Reformation of Joseph Lycett by Dr Carl Caulfield: Free Workshop Performance

  • New Book Newcastle in the 1800s………from penal settlement to Coalopolis by Julie Keating.

UPDATES FROM THE REGIONS

  • Regional GLAM Institutions Updates

Murrook Culture Centre – NSW Archaeology Forum 2024 – Papers and Resources

NSW Archaeology Forum – Murrook Culture Centre – 18 October 2024

UON60: A (very) Brief Journey Through the Print Thesis Collection

UON60: A Brief Journey Through the Print Thesis Collection

Clergy Abused Network (CAN) Presentation on Children’s Home Records

Clergy Abused Network (CAN) Newcastle Hunter Manning – October 2024 Meeting

What Ever Happened To Margaret & Ned’s Land at Lake Macquarie?

What Ever Happened to Margaret and Ned’s Land at Lake Macquarie?

  • Hunter Regional Committee Hunter National Trust Updates

RECENT NEWS

UNROLLED EXHIBITION LAUNCH – DIRECTLY FOLLOWING THE HLH SHOWCASE

Unrolled: The Hunter’s Forgotten Maps Exhibition Launch

End : (2.30 pm)


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