Next meeting will be Monday 11 October 2021 (1.00pm-3.00pm)
(ZOOM only)
All Welcome RSVP Ann.hardy@newcastle.edu.au
NOTE: COVID-19 University of Newcastle – ADVICE
Agenda
Meetings are held on the first Monday of every month (except January and public holidays) and open to staff and students of the University of Newcastle, the community, bona fide community researchers, industry partners and professionals.
Start (1.00 pm):
Acknowledgement to Country:
Presentations:
Reports and Updates:
– (Gionni di Gravio) – Updates
– (Ann Hardy) – Updates
– Research Liaison Librarian
– (Tim Adams) – Archaeologist
– (Kerrie Shaw) – City of Newcastle
– Update from Historical Groups & Museums
Public Advocacy:
General Business:
Close (3.00 pm)
2021 Meeting Dates are :-
Monday 1st Feb – Karen Crofts – Nctle Writers Centre
Monday 1st Mar – Dr Ian Eckford – ‘Story of Middleton’ 2021 marks 200 yrs since Chaplain was assigned to Newcastle.
Monday 12th April – Chaz Key – Book “Maitland Speaks’
Monday 3rd May – Dr Ken Thornton – Liddell Power Station (50 years old)
Monday 7th June – Sally Murray-Walsh (UON Research Liaison Library, UON) – UON Research Resources
Monday 5th July – Dr Justin Ellis & Assoc Prof Kate Senior – Copley Archive.
Monday 2nd Aug – Richard Baines – father’s WW2 diary. Dr Leslie Kilmartin- Book launch ‘’The Elusive Captain William Cromarty’
Monday 6th Sep – Kerrie Shaw (CoN Library)‘Amplify’ (oral history transcribing service) Jennifer Skulander (Research Librarian) “How to access/use UON Library Catalogue”
Monday 11th Oct –
Monday 1st Nov – Associate Prof Nancy Cushing, Newcastle’s Time Ball.
Monday 6th Dec –
Meetings are held alternatively at IDC Building, Callaghan Campus and NewSpace City Campus. (CLICK ON CAMPUS FOR FURTHER DIRECTIONS)
At Callaghan Campus meetings are held in the University Council Room, IDC Building, Callaghan Campus, Newcastle, NSW. See map below
Our Patron
Emeritus Professor Maree Gleeson OAM
Organsation Representatives
Fort Scratchley Historical Society – Ron Barber
Awabakal Tradition Owners Aboriginal Corporation (ATOAC) – Kerrie Brauer
Paterson Historical Society Lesley Gent, OAM
Stories of Our Town – Glenn Dormand
Rainbow History Group – John Witte
City of Newcastle – Kerrie Shaw (Heritage Collections Digitisation Specialist)
Awabakal Descendants Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation – Peter Leven
Parks & Playgrounds Movement Inc – Doug Lithgow
Hunter Regional Committee of the National Trust – Mark Metrikas (Chair)
Newcastle Industrial Heritage Association – Peter Sherlock (Representative, Former Director, Monteath & Powys Pty Ltd Consulting Surveyors & Planners)
Newcastle Family History Society – Ken & Maree Shilling
Newcastle Writers Centre – Karen Crofts
University Affiliates
Dr Brian Walsh (Consultant Historian) Member of the Professional Historians Association of Australia
Emeritus Professor John Fryer (School of Civil, Surveying and Environmental Engineering)
Emeritus Professor Howard Bridgman (Climate scientist) howard.bridgman@newcastle.edu.au
OUR ACHIEVEMENTS
2021
MINUTES – February – March – April – May – June– July– August – September – October – November – December
2020 ANNUAL REPORT 2020
MINUTES – February – March – April – May – June– July – August – September – October –November – December
2019 ANNUAL REPORT 2019
MINUTES – February – March – April – May– June – July – August – September – October – November – December
2018
MINUTES – February – March – April – May – June –July – August– September– October – November – December
2017 ANNUAL REPORT 2017
MINUTES – February – March – April – May – June – July – August– September– October – November – December
2016 ANNUAL REPORT 2016
MINUTES – February – March – April –May – June – July –August– September – October – November – December
2015 ANNUAL REPORT 2015
MINUTES – February – March – April– May –July – August – September – November – December
2014 ANNUAL REPORT 2014
MINUTES – February – March – April– May – August – September – October – December
2013 ANNUAL REPORT 2013
MINUTES – March – April – May – June – July – August – September – October– November
2012 ANNUAL REPORT 2012
MINUTES – April – May – June – July – August – September – October – November
ACHIEVEMENTS TIMELINE 2003 – 2007
2020 meetings:
Monday 6th July – Wendy Gallagher- State Archives of NSW (See – Local History resources PDF)
Monday 3rd Aug – Dr Helen English ‘Music and World-Building in the Colonial City: Newcastle, NSW, and its Townships, 1860-1880’
Monday 7th Sep – John Witte, “Policing love and sex: lives of same-sex attracted people and the law in Newcastle and the Hunter 1867-1954”
Monday 12th Oct – Tessa Boer-Mah (Heritage Now) Augmented Reality Hamilton Heritage Walk.
Monday 2nd Nov – Prof. Erik Ecklund, Federation University, Australia.
Monday 7th Dec – Introduction to Asti Sherring (Manager, Special Collection)
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