Hunter Living Histories

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Join us for the University Library’s monthly Hunter Living Histories showcase. All Welcome.

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

WHEN: Monday 3  March 2025 (1.00pm-2.30pm)

Welcome & Acknowledgement of Countries (Gionni di Gravio OAM)

PRESENTATIONS

• PRESENTATION 1  – UON60: The Satellite’s Legacy: Where is the Piece of Crashed Spacecraft that fell to Earth in the Pilliga Forest in 1975? (Legacy of the Late Professor Colin Keay, Professor of Physics and Philip Roser, the finder) – further information HERE

UON60: A Satellite’s Legacy: Where is the Piece of Crashed Spacecraft that fell to Earth in the Pilliga Forest in 1975?

• PRESENTATION 2 – “Dr Rhona Beare, University of Newcastle Classics lecturer, 1966” (Dr Jude Conway) celebrating the University’s 60 yrs.

UON60: The Unique Dr Rhona Beare (1935-2018) Classics Lecturer at UON (1966-2000)

A Most Mysterious ‘Angelic’ Manuscript: The story of how a discarded fragment of a medieval book was sourced and translated on the 100 bus to Newcastle

UPDATES FROM THE REGIONS

• Regional GLAM Institutions Updates
• Hunter Regional Committee Hunter National Trust Updates

RECENT NEWS

• Newcastle Writers Festival 2025  – 4-6 April 2025 PROGRAM HERE
• Stories of Our Town Film Festival in conjunction with the Newcastle Maritime Arts pop up space opposite the Newcastle Museum. It’s a collaboration with Ship4Good MV Steve Irwin Not for Profit and Lost Newcastle – Group.

HOT TOPIC DISCUSSION:

Theft of Historic Memorial Plaques and Sculptures Across Newcastle & Lake Macquarie

HUNTER LIVING HISTORIES  – Latest Posts

The Newcastle Show: Photographs From The University’s Archives (1900s-1990s)

A Most Mysterious ‘Angelic’ Manuscript: The story of how a discarded fragment of a medieval book was sourced and translated on the 100 bus to Newcastle

• • The Six Legged Poly-Moo-Zuke at the Newcastle Show 1923 – Hunter Living Histories
    

    The Six Legged Poly-Moo-Zuke at the Newcastle Show (1923)

  • Satellite’s Legacy: Where is the Piece of Crashed Spacecraft? – Hunter Living Histories
    

    UON60: A Satellite’s Legacy: Where is the Piece of Crashed Spacecraft that fell to Earth in the Pilliga Forest in 1975?

  • Recollections of Colin Anderson, Newcastle Celebrity – Hunter Living Histories
    

    UON60: Mr Anderson “Newcastle Celebrity” Goes To Wagga Wagga

  • Rehousing Haslam Indigenous Artefacts – Hunter Living Histories
    

    Honoring Legacy: Rehousing and Updating the Percy Haslam Collection of Indigenous Artefacts

  • UON60: The University of Newcastle’s Grant of Arms – Hunter Living Histories
    

    UON60: The University of Newcastle’s Grant of Arms

  • Newcastle Conservatorium of Music Born in 1952 – Hunter Living Histories
    

    UON60: Prehistory of the University of Newcastle – The Newcastle Conservatorium of Music – Born in 1952

EXHIBITION

• Physica Curiosa – The Edges of Knowing From 17 March, 2025 Level 2 of the Auchmuty Library.

NEXT SHOWCASE

• Monday 7 April, 2025. 1.00pm – 2.30pm