Hunter Living Histories Showcase September 2026 – Book Fair, Tocal & Bizarre Newcastle

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

WHEN –  Monday 7 September 2026 (1.00pm-2.30pm)

WHERE: via (ZOOM link HERE) or in person Room L326, Auchmuty Library, Callaghan Campus, Newcastle.
(For Directions see ONLINE MAP)

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

All Welcome

WELCOME & ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TO COUNTRY

RECENT NEWS & UPDATES

PRESENTATIONS

  • University of Newcastle Book Fair (Lesley Gent, Friends of the University)
  • Personalities, Purpose and Place: The Making of Tocal College” (Dr Cameron Archer AM)
  • Bizarre Newcastle Premiere – Stories of our Town – (Glenn Dormand)

UPDATES

  • Regional GLAM Institutions Updates (Hunter National Trust and Newcastle Family History Society)
  • GLAMx Lab Updates -Welcome Career-Ready Placement students

University News / UniNews Redigitised In Glorious Colour

Students, the Viroconium Fragments of Roman Britain and Arthurian Myth

PRESENTATIONS

  • UON Book Fair (Lesley Gent, Friends of the University)
  • “Personalities, Purpose and Place: The Making of Tocal College” By Dr Cameron Archer AM)
Personalities, Purpose and Place: The Making of Tocal College is a book by Cameron Archer that tells the story of Charles Boyd Alexander’s benefaction, the design by architects Philip Cox and Ian McKay, and the creation of the C.B. Alexander Presbyterian Agricultural College.
Personalities, Purpose and Place: The Making of Tocal College is a book by Cameron Archer that tells the story of Charles Boyd Alexander’s benefaction, the design by architects Philip Cox and Ian McKay, and the creation of the C.B. Alexander Presbyterian Agricultural College.

 

  • Bizarre Newcastle Premiere (1 October 2026) – Glenn Dormand

Bizarre Newcastle: Stories of Our Town Release Date Announced

  • NEXT SHOWCASE:  Monday 12 October

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