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J. & A. Brown – Coal & Allied Archive

February 18, 2019

In 1996, the University accepted an offer of the entire extant archive of J. & A. Brown/Coal & Allied at the time of its sale to Rio Tinto Ltd. A 200+ page inventory and finding aid of the records of the famous J & A Brown/Coal and Allied firm was prepared and placed on the … More J. & A. Brown – Coal & Allied Archive

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To celebrate 'National Student Volunteer Week' we To celebrate 'National Student Volunteer Week' we would like to introduce one of our volunteers, Isabel. Isabel is studying a Bachelor of Arts (History Major, Ancient History Minor) and has been volunteering in the GLAMx lab and is now undertaking a Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) opportunity. 

Through volunteering with us Isabel has developed valuable skills like uploading video files to an online digital repository and creating and adding related metadata, scanning/digitisation fragile photographs and slides, and conducting oral history interviews. 

We would like to thank Isabel and all our other student volunteers for working with us! ❤️

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Aristotle's Compleat Master Piece, (author unknown Aristotle's Compleat Master Piece, (author unknown), is a guide to sex, pregnancy and childbirth, popular from the 17th to the 19th centuries. 
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The book provides a fascinating glimpse into 17th century ideas on gender, race, sex, and childbirth. Although the medical advice is often absurd and heavily superstitious, the sex education is considered progressive for its time.
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The first edition was published in 1648. We hold the 32nd edition in our collection,  published in 1788.
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Book an appointment to read it for yourself!
Link in bio.

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🎉 Happy Autonomy Day! . Autonomy Day is the an 🎉 Happy Autonomy Day! 
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Autonomy Day is the annual celebration of the University of Newcastle becoming independent from the University of New South Wales in 1965. Autonomy was declared by the Governor of NSW, Sir Eric Winslow Woodward. 
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Each year students celebrate the University's independence with with a range of events which have historically included billy kart derbies, marches, fairs and live music. 
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📷 Pictured here is the @Uni_Newcastle Autonomy Day procession through Newcastle in 1967. 

The photographs, by Ross Smith, are part of the University of Newcastle History Collection, held by Special Collections. 
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Identifiers: 
1967_015en
1967_016en
1967_007en

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A new addition to our rare books collection - "Cul A new addition to our rare books collection - "Culpeper's English physician; and complete herbal" published in 1813.
 
The author, Nicholas Culpeper (1616-1654), was an astrologer-physician at a time when astrology was linked to health, and divination was used to produce herbal remedies to heal afflictions.

This book is a medical treatise of such remedies. It includes listings of herbs (and their medicinal and occult properties); and anatomical drawings linking the body to the zodiac, showing celestial influences. 

Illustrations by Ebenezer Silby [1751-1799].

Book an appointment to see this intriguing book in our Reading Room! - Link in Bio

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Spotlight on our student intern Freda! Freda has Spotlight on our student intern Freda!

Freda has been working with us in Special Collections for the last 4 months, helping to design and curate the Ea la Wamanbila exhibition (on now!).

Freda is a proud Gomeroi yinarr woman born and raised in Moree.  Freda has always been interested in Aboriginal history and social justice. These interests encouraged her to commence an internship with Special Collections, and work on the decolonising collections exhibition project.

Freda described that working with Special Collections allowed her to gain experience working in different areas of Aboriginal affairs, as well as how to appropriately engage and utilise Indigenous archival materials in her work.

Other skills Freda gained while working with us include; creating blog posts, handling rare books, digitising collections, 3D scanning, and book scanning to name a few.

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On display as part of the Ea la Wamanbila (Here lo On display as part of the Ea la Wamanbila (Here look, lets go) exhibition, is this recent acquisition purchased by the Reta Light Memorial Trust. 

The hand coloured copper engraving [c.1821] depicts a colonial view of Newcastle looking towards Whibayganba/Nobby's Head. 

The print was engraved by Walter Preston (1777-18??) "from a drawing by Captain James Wallis" (1785-1858). Wallis was the commandant of the penal settlement at Newcastle (1814-1818). Preston was charged with highway robbery and transported to the penal settlement at Newcastle in 1814.

You can see it in person - Level 2, Auchmuty Library.
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Today is #InternationalMoonDay, a United Nations-d Today is #InternationalMoonDay, a United Nations-designated day for cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space and marks the anniversary of the first moon landing. 

Here are some photos of the window displays at the Newcastle & Suburban Co-Operative Society (The Store) in 1969 that were created to celebrate this remarkable event. 

The talented designer of the window displays was Terry Stanmore. Special Collections is fortunate to hold a digital archive of The Store's shop window displays on the Living Histories web site. 

#HunterLivingHistories #WindowDisplays #WindowDisplayArt #VintageWindowDisplay #NewcastleNSW #UniNewcastle #DigitalArchive
You don't need to bend over backwards to access ou You don't need to bend over backwards to access our collections...
All you need to do is book an appointment to view archives and rare books in our Special Collections Reading Room. Link in Bio.

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It's time for O-Week library tours at Callaghan to It's time for O-Week library tours at Callaghan today, so we have brought out a few of our favourite things. 

One of the items we have on display is a volume of Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy) by Isaac Newton (1642-1726). The first edition was published in 1687. Our edition was published in 1739, in Latin. 

The work presents Newton's laws of motion and universal gravitation, which remained unchallenged until Einstein's theory of relativity was published in 1916.

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