Forthcoming Hunter Living Histories Showcase
Monday, 2 March 2026, 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 (Join Zoom Meeting HERE) or in person Room L326, Auchmuty Library, Callaghan Campus, Newcastle. (See ONLINE MAP)
WHEN – Monday 2 March 2026 (1.00pm-2.30pm)
Afternoon Tea will be provided for those attending in person (from 12.30pm)
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WELCOME & ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TO COUNTRY
VALE EMERITUS PROFESSOR KEN DUTTON
We were saddened to hear of the passing of Emeritus Professor Ken Dutton at him home last Thursday 26/Friday 27 February 2026. Ken was of great service to this University and its regional communities, always on hand to assist, especially when it came to anything to do with French historical connections to Newcastle and beyond.
- He was the biographer to our University’s first Vice Chancellor, Professor J. J. Auchmuty
- Successor to Professor Kelver Hartley, Foundation Professor of French and keeper of his Kelver Hartley Bequest
- Translator of the Newcastle and Hunter Valley chapter(s) from Henri Rochefort’s De Noumea en Europe (Paris, 1876), translated for the first time after 130 years to English for publication on our Coquon River (Hunter River) Website. (2002)
- With colleague Dr Marie Ramsland presented at the “Newcastle Through French Eyes” Event in the Archives Rare Books & Special Collections Unit (July 2002)
- In service of the Stockton Historical Society, translated documents related to the Adophe shipwreck, that was used in a public event organised by Bill Hillier for the Victoria Lifeboat Descendants & Friends (September 2004)
- Translated the Jarry Gray manuscript, and published a book launched on 18th October 2007 by Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir AC CVO Governor of the State of NSW.
- Translated the letter by Ensign Barrallier from June 1801 describing the treacherous entrance to our Newcastle Harbour.
PRESENTATIONS
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- ‘1980s Women’s Libbers vs Engineering Student’s “Kulcha Nite” (4.5MB PDF)”’ (International Womens Day, Dr Jude Conway)
- Shepherds Hill Cottage Project (Sheridan Nickalls, Property Strategy & Delivery Lead, City of Newcastle)
UPDATES
- Regional GLAM Institutions Updates including reports from:
- Ross Edmonds, Hunter Regional Committee of National Trust;
- Dr Jude Conway, Newcastle Family History Society;
- Ron Barber, Fort Scratchley Historical Society;
- Jennifer Buffier, Maitland Historical Society.
- GLAMx Lab Updates – Career-Ready Placement students – Dan, Hamish, Coren and Mila. (Dr Ann Hardy)
Collections Update: Object Based Learning Session at Murrook Culture Centre
Collection’s update: Object-Based Learning Sessions on Rome and Pompeii.
Further Colonial Historical Accounts of the Supreme Aboriginal Spirit Being
John Sointu and Singer Car Bodies in Newcastle – a chronology (2026)
RECENT NEWS
- Dr Katy Sentas – UNE Collections Gateway Launch, Thursday 12 March 2026 10am-12pm. Click here to zoom in: UNE Collections Gateway Launch
- History@Newcastle Seminar Series HCCI Seminar Programme S1 2026
- TALK – Professor Coleborne examines mid-century Australian polio history through the lens of NSW public health campaigns and community advocacy. Using the Newcastle region as a case study, she explores new “health history” frameworks for exhibitions and addresses existing gaps in Australian medical scholarship. Click image to REGISTER
- Newcastle Writers Festival – 27-29 March 2026 (Further information available here)