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
James Thomas Morisset – A Family Story by Ronald and Margaret Thompson (2014) Introduction Lieutenant Colonel James Thomas Morisset was my great grandfather x 3 and I am extremely proud of him, his achievements as a soldier, pioneer and family man. Some years ago we were told of a family connection to James … More James Thomas Morisset – A Family Story
Newcastle Coal Mining & Government Mines – 1796- 1820s By Dr Ann Hardy – April 2014 University of Newcastle’s Coal River Working Party There is confusion about the early coal mines of Newcastle and although the Australian Agricultural Company mines are well documented there is little research on the government coal mines (particularly the coal … More Newcastle Coal Mining & Government Mines 1796-1820s
ENDNOTES AND COLD MERCY: CRIME STORIES FROM COLONIAL NEWCASTLE CASE 2.TIERNAN, SMITH AND DESMOND: THE MEN FROM GOD KNOWS WHERE BY DAVID MURRAY David Murray is a university medalist with a Creative Arts Phd from Newcastle Uni. He has published two books of poetry: “Swinging from a broken clock” and “Blue bottle” (Sultana Press) alongside … More TRUE CRIME: TIERNAN, SMITH AND DESMOND: THE MEN FROM GOD KNOWS WHERE
See the video here: http://vimeo.com/66219981 Emeritus Professor Michael Rosenthal will deliver the John Turner Memorial Lecture Colonel Paterson’s Scrapbook. “When, in 1809, he knew he would be returning to Britain, colonial hand Colonel William Paterson took great care to commission watercolours from John Lewin and George Robert Evans, arguably the leading artists in the … More John Turner Memorial Lecture 2013 – Emeritus Professor Michael Rosenthal
Newcastle has a rich literary history, being the site that created the first full length autobiography ever written in Australia, and the first dictionary ever compiled in Australia. These were the works of the infamous convict James Hardy Vaux and the 5th of July 2012 celebrated the bicentenary of this important milestone in Australia’s literary … More David Murray’s “Words for the Heat of Deeds” – A Story of Newcastle’s Convict Years
During his presentation at the 2012 National Trust Forum on Innovation and Invention Mr Bill Jordan introduced us to a convict era tunnel dating from around 1816 that lies beneath Church Street, Newcastle (Australia). He believes that it is the oldest example of Australian civil engineering works still in use to this day and quite … More Convict Era Tunnel (c1816) and Brick Culvert (c1850s)
On the 20th February 2012 a ceremony was held at the Newcastle Art Gallery to unveil the Wallis Album. The Wallis Album was compiled by Captain James Wallis, who was Commandant of the Newcastle penal settlement from June 1816 to December 1818. Of the 35 works, the album features many by convict artist Joseph Lycett … More Unveiling the Wallis Album
NEWCASTLE (From The Illustrated Sydney News, 26 November 1853 p.58) Newcastle, formerly known as King’s Town, is a free port in the County of Northumberland. It is situated about eighty miles from Sydney, at the mouth of the Hunter, which, rising in the Liverpool Range, passes through a fertile and extensive tract of country, … More Newcastle in November 1853
“NEWCASTLE. (From Thursday’s Chronicle) AN INTERESTING RELIC. – On Friday morning last, as the workmen were employed in pulling down the walls of the Bank of New South Wales, in Watt Street, they found embedded between the plastering and the wall, a kind of small leaden case, containing a piece of white paper, about the … More An Interesting Relic