Hunter Living Histories

Forthcoming Hunter Living Histories Showcase
Monday, 3 November 2025, 1.00pm-2.30pm

ZOOM link HERE

Join us at 1.00pm-2.30pm 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 November 2025 (1.00pm-2.30pm)

Afternoon Tea will be provided for those attending in person (from 12.30pm)

WELCOME & ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TO COUNTRY (Gionni di Gravio)

PRESENTATIONS

• Presentation 1. Contradictory connectivity and hybrid spaces: LGBTQ+ identity negotiation in regional NSW, Australia (Dr Justin Ellis) (2.00pm)
• Presentation 2. New Book – ‘Eraring A Technical and Social History’ (Dr Ken Thornton) (1.05pm)

UPDATES FROM THE REGIONS

• Regional GLAM Institutions Updates
• Hunter Regional Committee Hunter National Trust Updates
• Julie Keating’s Newcastle’s Early History Series AVAILABLE HERE

RECENT NEWS

• • A special History seminar Noticing Animals: Tales from a pilgrimage through more than human Sydney. Associate Professor Nancy Cushing. Friday 14 November, 9:30 – 10:30 AEDT, in the UON Auchmuty Library, Room L326. Online Via Zoom. Further details HERE
  • Janet & Merv Copley as Newcastle’s quiet activists of the 1950s to 1980s. Dr Effie Karageorgos, Tue, 18 Nov, 10:30am – 11:30am Auchmuty Library. Further Details HERE
  • Fort Wallace : History and Archaeology with Dr Peter Hobbins. Saturday 22 November 10am (Stockton Historical Society) Further details HERE
  • Newcastle Family History Society Podcasts https://nfhs.org.au/podcasts/
    and Videocasts https://www.youtube.com/@newcastlefamilyhistorysoci2923/videos
  • History Illuminated https://library.lakemac.com.au/Whats-On/Festivals-Exhibitions/History-Illuminated
  • Stories from Ear Hustle and Prisons – Exhibition Launch and Talk with Damian Linnane, Saturday 1 November, Windale library. Further details HERE Damien is also curating an art exhibition at The Creator Incubator in Hamilton North on November 22. Further details HERE

HUNTER LIVING HISTORIES -Latest

• • A Message From The Necromancers This Halloween, MMXXV

  • A Premonition in Passing: the Newcastle Earthquake 1989 As It Happened

  • UON60: Altjiringa – The Student Magazine That Looked Toward A Better World

  • Digitising the Treasures of Cintra House: Mapping the Journey

  • Hunter Living Histories October Showcase – Panel discussion ‘Say Aahhhh…’ Exhibition

  • The Yallarwah Interviews With Paul F. Walsh OAM & Susan Harvey (2024)

  • UON60: Trade Unions and the Creation of the University of Newcastle and its Library

  • UON60: Weaving History – The Makers Behind the Hunter Tapestry

  • UON60: Prehistory of the Newcastle Art School

EXHIBITION

• Current Exhibition – Level 2, Auchmuty Library Callaghan Campus.  Also see DETAILS