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Newsletter 4 December 2020
Editor: Jessica Fairey
Members News
History Council General Committee Meeting
A reminder to all General Committee members that our final meeting for the year is to be held next week on 7 December at the Kentish Hotel in North Adelaide, 5.30 for a 6pm start. As numbers need to be known in this COVID time, please RSVP to our secretary at [email protected]
Christmas gift: 18 months membership of the History Council
This History Council is offering a special Christmas gift voucher of 18 months membership for the price of 12 months for new members. We encourage friends and members to purchase membership for their friends and family members who have a passion for history. For details see here.




Friends of South Australia's Archives Membership Renewal
As we are halfway through the membership year 2020-2021, this is a friendly reminder that annual membership renewals are due for the current year.
Payment can be made via
- Cash, cheque, or money order enclosed with this form. Payable to The Friends of South Australia’s Archives Inc and send with this notice to Sandra Kearney, 37 Mabel Street, Stirling, SA 5152
- Direct Debit:
Payee Account Name - Friends of SA Archives
BSB: 065-009 Account Number 10004343
Lodgment Reference: Your surname
Please email [email protected] or post this form to 37 Mabel Street, Stirling, 5152 to advise that you have paid via this avenue and/or to advise contact changes.
Recent member publication: Angelakis, George (1920-1993) by Yianni Cartledge
This recently published Australian Dictionary of Biography entry explores the life of George Angelakis, a South Australian fisherman and seafood merchant. Angelakis was a pre-World War II Greek immigrant who settled in Thevenard, on South Australia’s West Coast. Angelakis became a giant in both the seafood industry and in the South Australian Greek community. His family (particularly his son, Michael) are still notable in the media today.
The entry made use of a range of sources. This included: recently digitised shipping, arrival and naturalisation records found in the National Archives of Australia; a range of collected newspaper clippings from both local and state-wide newspapers, such as the Advertiser, the Sunday Mail, the West Coast Sentinel and the Port Lincoln Times; as well as prior research on South Australia’s fishing industry and the Adelaide Central Market, including a chapter by Angelakis’ brother, Nick. A list of accessible resources is also available on the entry’s page.
Check out the piece here
News
The Dublin Dispatch
The latest edition of the Dublin History Group's newsletter, The Dublin Dispatch, is now available.
View the September-October and November-December editions here.
Further information here
Greek Museum of Adelaide Exhibition
The museum is organising it's two week exhibition of family heirlooms brought to Australia by Greek immigrants. During the exhibition, the museum will also be hosting evenings of Greek cinema and lectures. The exhibition will be held at Flambouro Hall, 18 Fulton St., North Glenelg, open between 9.30am and 5.00pm from 1 December to 2 January.
Flyer available here.
Vote for your favourite heritage photo
The SA Heritage Council, in partnership with Heritage SA, ran a photo competition this year called Heritage SnAPs. The aim of the competition was to get the community engaged with, and appreciate, our State’s Heritage Places and Areas. We are now asking the community to vote for their favourite photo from the Top 20.
If you scroll through all the photos, at the bottom of the webpage you will see where you can vote. Voting closes 6 December.
Vote here
Webinar: Family history and the future of co-production and collaboration
This webinar aims to interrogate assumptions about family historians and their research, bringing together a range of scholars who have worked on family histories or with family historians. 17 December 2020.
Further information and registration here.
Webinar: Family history and the future of co-production and collaboration
This webinar aims to interrogate assumptions about family historians and their research, bringing together a range of scholars who have worked on family histories or with family historians. 17 December 2020.
Further information and registration here.
History of Australian Industrial Relations
An exhibition on the history of Australian industrial relations from the early colonial period to the present day. Presented by the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre at Kerry Packer Civic Gallery until 11 December.
Further information here.
Around the country
Webinar: Family history and the future of co-production and collaboration
This webinar aims to interrogate assumptions about family historians and their research, bringing together a range of scholars who have worked on family histories or with family historians. 17 December 2020.
Further information and registration here.
Webinar: Family history and the future of co-production and collaboration
This webinar aims to interrogate assumptions about family historians and their research, bringing together a range of scholars who have worked on family histories or with family historians. 17 December 2020.
Further information and registration here.
Podcast: Black Stories Matter
(Description from website)
Black Stories Matter is a five-part podcast series that brings together media researchers, historians, former policymakers and Aboriginal journalists whose work is disrupting the patterns of the past. They share how Aboriginal perspectives have been silenced, and what the media can do to make things right.
Further information here.
Opportunities
Australian Society for the Study of Labour History. The Society is seeking papers for its seventeenth biennial conference, with the theme “Fighting For Life: Class, Community and Care in Labour History”. The conference is to be held 3-5 December 2021, in Bendigo, Victoria. Abstracts are due 15 February 2021.
Further information here.
Grace Abbott Book Prize for the best book published in English on the history of children, childhood, or youth (broadly construed). Nominations are due 15 January 2021.
Further information here.
Australian Society for the Study of Labour History. The Society is seeking papers for its seventeenth biennial conference, with the theme “Fighting For Life: Class, Community and Care in Labour History”. The conference is to be held 3-5 December 2021, in Bendigo, Victoria. Abstracts are due 15 February 2021.
Further information here.
Grace Abbott Book Prize for the best book published in English on the history of children, childhood, or youth (broadly construed). Nominations are due 15 January 2021.
Further information here.
Calls for papers
Writing Australian History on Screen. Abstracts Due 27 February 2021. Further information here.
Down Under Darwin: Australasian Perspectives on Darwin Studies. Abstracts due 1 December 2020.
Further information here.
Australian Association for Maritime History: The Great Circle.
Further information here.