People create all sorts of wonderful things from the University of Newcastle’s freely available high resolution images on Flickr here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/uon/ Let us know how you have been using these images. If you wish to support the free access to our digitised cultural treasures, and provide paid employment for people to do it, then support … More Beautiful things created out of our history
As part of 2016 NSW  History Week celebrations, The History@Newcastle Research Seminar Series presented Tamsin O’Connor, “Bad Neighbours: the Smugglers and Pirates of the Penal Station and Port of Newcastle, 1804 – 1824.” Abstract The theme for 2016’s History week is neighbours and it is not one that sits easily in the context of penal station … More Smugglers and Pirates of Newcastle, 1804-1824
DOWNLOAD From Scone to the Head Waters of the Hunter. A Survey of Properties and People Following the Gundy Road and Various Side-roads Along the Way 1896-1897 By M.H. (Mac) Bridge (20 MB PDF FILE) From Scone to the Head Waters of the Hunter. A Survey of Properties and People Following the Gundy Road and … More From Scone to the Head Waters of the Hunter. A Survey of Properties and People Following the Gundy Road 1896 – 1897
Podcast Available Here- Unholy Love (33:50) – Dark Stories True Crimes CASE 8: UNHOLY LOVE A day’s walk southwest from the river town of Morpeth brought colonisers to the modest valley of Mulberry Creek, where the red-moon faced John Thornton moved with his wife Mary Baker in 1842 to work on a small farm lease … More COAL RIVER TRUE CRIME: UNHOLY LOVE
The PITCH: We Europeans have enslaved ourselves in geometric prisons. Thanks to the Greeks and Romans. We draw lines upon the landscape and sell it, fill it with bitumen, cross it in roads, pave it in footpaths, cement our waterways and turn them into drains. We have dragged the Aboriginal peoples and the entire environment … More Black White Restive: The Geometric Descent into Madness and Imprisonment
Coal Harbour and Rivers When historians once spoke of the “Barrallier Survey” or “Map of the Hunter Region”, conducted during the survey mission of June to July 1801, the map (pictured above) was the only one known to them. It was published in the Historical Records of New South Wales, Volume 5 between pages … More Barrallier’s Surveys of the Hunter Region (1801-1802)
Lieutenant John Shortland. An eye sketch of Hunter’s River. 1797. Signed J.S. [initials presumed to be those of Lieutenant John Shortland]. 1797 Lieutenant John Shortland, R.N. Lieutenant John Shortland of the H.M.S. Reliance officially “discovered” the River on the 10th September 1797 while on route to Port Stephens. The letter to his father reporting the … More Lieutenant John Shortland – Hunter’s River 1797
This work is conducted in memory and respectfully honours the First Australian People, the Aboriginal People of this land. Warning to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People: This post contains images and references to people who are deceased. Port Stephens Latitude – 32″: 28′ S. Tide at Entrance – 2 Knots High Water, full, and … More Port Stephens as it looked on 16th March 1795 (Aboriginal/European First Contact)
William Raymond ‘Ray’ Walker was Associate Professor of Chemistry at the UON for over twenty years. He was a fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute and a member of the International Association of Bio-Inorganic Scientists. In April 2016 Ray and his family made contact with UON’s Cultural Collections about his research papers and record … More Lost Newcastle Oral Histories – Assoc. Professor Ray Walker (1924 – 2016)