Forthcoming Hunter Living Histories Showcase
Monday, 1 June 2026, 1.00pm-2.30pm
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Join us at 1.00pm-2.30pm for the University Library’s monthly Hunter Living Histories showcase. All Welcome.
WHERE: via (Join Zoom Meeting) or in person Room L326, Auchmuty Library, Callaghan Campus, Newcastle. (See ONLINE MAP)
WHEN – Monday 1 June 2026 (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
- TBA
UPDATES
- Collection engagement activities (Dr Amir Moghadam – University Library, Special Collections & Archives)
- Regional GLAM Institutions Updates (Hunter National Trust and Newcastle Family History Society)
- GLAMx Lab Updates -Welcome Career-Ready Placement students
RECENT NEWS
- Launch: Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism during the Vietnam War. Watt Space Gallery Newcastle, Saturday, May 9 • 5 pm – 6:30pm. Further details HERE
- Australian Heritage Festival 2026 Further details HERE
- Don McNair Herbarium Biennial Report. Don McNair Herbarium is kindly supported by donations.
- EXPLORE series of Heritage Walks of Newcastle Suburbs (Julie Keating) AVAILABLE HERE
- Newcastle Family History Society Podcasts https://nfhs.org.au/podcasts/
and Videocasts https://www.youtube.com/@newcastlefamilyhistorysoci2923/videos
HUNTER LIVING HISTORIES -Latest
Remembering Dr Vera Deacon OAM (2026) – Call for Contributions
Who is the “Giant” of Giant’s Leap? Sandy Hollow New South Wales
EXHIBITION
- Current Exhibition – Level 2, Auchmuty Library Callaghan Campus
End : (2.30 pm)
For more information on each individual meeting, and the recordings for previous meetings, please view the information below.
2026 Showcase Dates
Monday 2 February – University Library- Hunter Living Histories/Living Histories (NEW access) – (Kerry Regan, Co-ordinator, web and media content) Newcastle History ‘Our Past‘ media – (Jacob Ure) and Richmond Vale Rail Museum and Heritage Park – Clare Jackson (Newcastle Business School)
Monday 2 March
Monday 13 April
Monday 4 May
Monday 1 June
Monday 6 July
Monday 3 August
Monday 7 September
Monday 12 October
Monday 2 November
Monday 7 December
2025 Showcase Online
February – Number 96 – Women in Media
March – Cosmic Fragments From Space and Time
April – In-person event in Newcastle
May – 200 Years Threlkeld’s Arrival in Newcastle & OPUS Student Magazine Reunion (1954-Present)
June – Chinese Gardeners
July – Newcastle history – ‘Uncommon Endeavour’ (Liz Adams)
September – Queer Newcastle research (Dr Justin Ellis). Library Strategic Plan (Ann Hardy & Jemma Bowman, Uni Library)
December – 2025 Showcase – Newcastle. The Lives and Times of a City’ (Scott Bevan)/a>
2024 Showcase
AUGUST –VIEW HERE
- Lt General Ralph DarLing and the Dumaresqs (Ross Edmonds, Community Researcher) VIEW HERE
- Muswellbrook Research (Geoff Brokate International Researcher) VIEW HERE
- Newcastle Thematic History (Minna Muhlen Schulte, Manager, Interpretation and Design GML Heritage) VIEW HERE
JULY – VIEW HERE
- Planning and “Public Housing” Mr Joe Flood, Enzhuo Gai, Dr John Mackenzie
JUNE – VIEW HERE
- Welcome Patricia Forsythe (Chancellor) VIEW HERE
- Shane Frost Awabakal Descendant on his new book: Forget-Me-Not Remembering Lost Lives and Legacies W.S. Procter & The 1841 Procter Chart VIEW HERE
MAY – VIEW HERE
- Brickworks evolution into a community park (Lyndall Morrow) VIEW HERE
- Broadmeadow Locomotive Depot precinct (Shane Blatchford, President of the Newcastle Railway Institute Inc.) VIEW HERE
APRIL – VIEW HERE
- “Miniature Newcastle : Celebrating Newcastle’s Rail and Industry Heritage” (Garry Glazebrook)
MARCH – VIEW HERE
- Carol Ridgeway-Bissett, proud Worimi woman speaks about Aboriginal culture.
- 200 Years of Tahlee, Carrington and the AA Co. (Janis Winn)
- “Stockton Stories – Community Digital Archive” (Michelle Watson)
FEBRUARY – VIEW HERE
- Wilf Goold, Local preserver of Newcastle history & Dangar book – the issue of provenance” (Ross Edmonds)
2 Sept
14 October
4 November
2 December
2023 Meetings
DECEMBER – VIEW HERE
- Annual Report (Gionni di Gravio OAM)
- Regional GLAM Institutions Updates
- Hunter Regional Committee Hunter National Trust Updates
NOVEMBER – VIEW HERE
- Historic Fiction Writing (panel)
- ‘EARLY VISIONS Women Artists of Newcastle and the Hunter Region from the Colonial Period to 1969.'(Dr Margaret McBride)
- Hunter Histories and Creative Writing (Jodi Vial, PhD candidate (Creative Writing) University of Newcastle)
- Talking on her latest book (Tea Cooper, Australian Historical Fiction Writer)
- <‘Adventure on the Hunter River: William Burnage and the Hunter Region imagined’(Dr Morgan Burgess, Special Collections Librarian, University of Newcastle)
OCTOBER – VIEW HERE
- 5oth Anniversary of Biology at the University of Newcastle- Emeritus Professor Tim Roberts AM.
- Return to Yallarwah showcase- Dr Ray Kelly, Susan Harvey, Paul F Walsh OAM, Dr Ramsey Awad, and Sheryn Barrack
SEPTEMBER – History Week 2023 VIEW HERE
- Lets Yarn- Yali Windle,Lead, Indigenous Engagement
- Local Oral History Collections- Kerry Shaw, City of Newcastle
- Creating Podcasts- Carol Duncan, Lost Newcastle Founder
- ‘Loud Sky’ Exhibition- Dr Kathleen McPhillips & Dr Rod Pattenden
AUGUST – VIEW HERE
- ‘All things Hannan’ – An overview of the Hannan Photographic Archive
JULY – NAIDOC week VIEW HERE
- Dorothy Hewett Centenary Celebration-Joe Flood and Marilla North
- Yirannali: The Quiet Project- Paul Walsh OAM and Julie Squires
- Former West Wallsend Museum Maps Collections- Robert Watson
JUNE – VIEW HERE
- Liddell Power Station- Dr Ken Thornton
- Talking Back to Monuments- Associate Professor Nancy Cushing, Nicholas Orr, and Dr Irene Perez Lopez
- Thesis Digitisation Project – Kathirine Sentas, Special Collections Project Librarian
MAY – May Day Showcase VIEW HERE
- Musical Performance- Newcastle People’s Chorus
- Newcastle Trades Hall’s role in establishment of University and Aboriginal Human Rights- Rod Noble and Prof. Kate Senior with People’s Chorus
- May Day And the struggle for Aboriginal workers’ rights and land in the NT- Professor Kate Senior
- Miss Porter’s House collection UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register- Annabel Senior
APRIL – VIEW HERE
- ‘Queen Margaret’ of the Awabakal Nation- Mr Ryan Stewart, History Teacher and PHD Candidate
- How to use Living Histories Digital Platform- Davina Pellatt and Kua Swan, Library Officers, Special Collections
MARCH – VIEW HERE
- The Little Richard Stockton Punt Saga- Rick Pointon, Music Historian
- More Than Hoons; Stories of Our Town- Chit Chat von Loopin Stab (aka Glenn Dormand)
- Broadmeadow Locomotive Depot Inc. Project- Shane Blatchford and Emiritus Professor Tim Roberts AM
FEBRUARY – 20thAnniversary of Hunter Living Histories VIEW HERE
- 20th Anniversary of the Hunter Living Histories (and Coal River Working Party)- with Guests Dr Peter Hobbins, Professor Erik Eklund, Associate Professor Nancy Cushing, Emeritus Professor John Fryer, and community founder Doug Lithgow
2022 Showcase online
| February | PDF LINKS | VIEW HERE |
| March | PDF LINK | VIEW HERE |
| April | PDF LINKS | VIEW HERE |
| May | PDF LINKS | VIEW HERE |
| June | PDF LINKS | VIEW HERE |
| July | PDF LINKS | VIEW HERE |
| August | PDF LINKS | VIEW HERE |
| September | PDF LINKS | VIEW HERE |
| October | PDF LINKS | VIEW HERE |
| November | VIEW HERE | |
| December | VIEW HERE |
Our Patron
Emeritus Professor Maree Gleeson OAM
Organisation 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)
OUR ACHIEVEMENTS
2022 ANNUAL REPORT
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2013 ANNUAL REPORT
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2012 ANNUAL REPORT
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ACHIEVEMENTS TIMELINE 2003 – 2007
- Richmond Vale Rail Museum and Heritage Park – Clare Jackson (Newcastle Business School)
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