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Newsletter 13 June 2024
News
Announcing the winners of the 2024 Historian Awards and Wakefield Press Essay Prize
On 31 May, we celebrated the History Festival Finale and announced the winners of the 2024 HCSA Historian Awards.
Wakefield Press Essay Prize Winner: Amanda Wells, 'Halting Chowilla Dam: Salt, Science, and River Murray Politics in the 1960s'
Historian of the Year: Dr Julie Collins
Emerging Historian: Samuel Doering
Lifelong Historians: Meredith Satchell and Martin Walker
Digital Technologies: Dan Schmidt
Regional or Community: Tailem Bend Historians Association
Excellence in Oral History: Christeen Schoepf
Information about this year’s winners is available here
SA Medical Heritage Society June meeting
The next meeting will feature Dr. David Close on 'A brief history of ear, nose and throat surgery in South Australia' on 27 June, 6pm at Dulwich Community Centre. Members and guests welcome. Replies to Joy Copland via email
Further information here (pdf flyer).
Burnside Historical Society Bulletin
The most recent edition of the bulletin is now available.
Read it here (pdf)
The History Council has issued a media release outlining its position on proposed reforms at the South Australian Museum.
Read more on our advocacy page here.
Save the Queen: The Priscilla Project
A project is underway to restore the Priscilla bus from the film 'The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert'. She was discovered on a property in rural New South Wales, having survived fire, floods, and exposure to the elements. The History Trust of South Australia is seeking donations to restore the bus and display her at the National Motor Museum in Birdwood.
Further information through the HTSA
Planning, Development and Infrastructure Act review final report and Government response released
Following an extensive review by an expert panel, the Government is adopting over 100 recommendations to make the planning system more efficient and user-friendly.
More information on the Review's March newsletter here.
Adelaide Museum of South Australian History
The History Trust are inviting responses to a survey about a proposed new museum: the Adelaide Museum of South Australia's History.
Find out more and have your say on the proposed museum here.
Lectures, exhibitions, and events
Curator talk: Cornucopia exhibition
Join the State Library of SA for a tour of Cornucopia: gardens and gardening in South Australia with the two curators of the exhibition.
20 June, 11am - 12pm, State Library SA.
Further information and registration through the State Library website
John Rymill - Polar explorer
Hear from John Rymill's grandson - also named John Rymill - about how his grandfather left Australia bound for England on a journey that would see him becoming one of Australia's foremost polar pioneers.
20 June, 5.30 - 7.00pm, Hetzel Lecture Theatre, Institute Building. $10 per person.
Further information and registration through the SLSA website
Getting started with your family history
Would you like to start researching your family history, but don't know where to begin? Join Genealogy SA for this beginners course on how to plan, research, record and share your genealogical discoveries. The course will include practical examples of family history research, information about how to access records and tips to avoid common pitfalls. All participants will receive a range of handouts to support the course material. At the end of the session, the library will remain open for participants to use its resources.
14 July, 10am, Genealogy SA Library. Members $50 | Non-members $95
Places are very limited, so book now!
Portable buildings: Port Adelaide to Darwin
This free public lecture by Miles Lewis is on the 'portable' or prefabricated buildings that came to Australia in the nineteenth century.
26 June, 5.30pm - 6.30pm. Pridham Hall, UniSA City West Campus, Hindley Street.
Further information and registration through Humanitix
Labour History Society June General Meeting
The LHS is helping to celebrate the establishment of the United Trades and Labor Council 140 years ago. There will be a panel discussion on the history of the UTLC, its impact on unions, the labour movement in general, and its relationship in bringing women into leadership roles.
16 June, 2pm, at the Box Factory, Regent St. South, Adelaide.
Talking History 2024 program
Talking History is returning with a renewed focus on the South Australian story. The first event is Dr. Susan Arthure, Dr. Stephanie James, and Dr. Denise George speaking on SA's Irish Women: the Powerless and Powerful.
18 June, 5.45pm, Denise Bradley Forum, H5-02, UniSA City West Campus, Hawke Building, North Terrace.
Further information, tickets, and full program through the History Trust website
Public lecture: After the shipyards - Whyalla in the 1980s
When the BHP Whyalla Shipyards closed permanently in 1978, it led to an exodus of some of the skilled workers and their families. As Whyalla was built around the heavy industries, the whole story of the city has been described as being continually in decline since. Was that notion correct? This lecture from Maritime Museum curator Paul Mazourek is now available to watch on Youtube.
Watch it here.
Public talk: Cuttlefest 2024 - People in the landscape
A talk on Barngarla country with Maritime Museum Curator Paul Mazourek about the amazing story of the landscape development and people's histories in the Northern Spencer Gulf.
Every Thursday in June and July, 2-3pm, Point Lowly Lighthouse, Point Lowly SA.
Further information through the Australian Tourism Data Warehouse website
Exhibition: Children's voices from the Bob Hawke Collection
This exhibition explores Hawke's commitment to future generations and Australia's youth, unveiling the 'voices of children' in the Hawke Collection.
On now until 28 June 2024, Kerry Packer Civic Gallery, Hawke Building level 3, UniSA City West Campus.
Further information through the UniSA website.
New exhibition: Disrupt, persist, invent: Australians in an ever-changing world
This exhibition, explores the many ways people have achieved social change in Australia, from noisy protest to quiet persistence. On at the State Library of South Australia, 20 April - 11 August.
Further information through the SLSA website
Historical Society of South Australia 2024 program
The HSSA has announced its program for 2024 as follows:
5 July: Benjamin Nicholls: "There are pianos everywhere": Oscar Comettant and other travel writers on South Australian music.
2 August: Robert Foster: The role of environmental factors in shaping Aboriginal/settler relations in colonial South Australia.
6 September: Elizabeth Bor: Responses to Bushfires in South Australia from the 1820s to Federation.
4 October: Martin Hamilton-Smith: Western Democracy Under Challenge: The interesting case study of South Australia.
1 November: Erin Reardon: RA&HS Archives – Walking into 185 Years of History (and Wondering What to do With It).
Book releases
What have the French ever done for us? Edited by John West-Sooby
What have the French done for the cultural life of Australia, and more globally? That is the question addressed by the essays in this volume.
Further information and ordering through Wakefield Press
Book launch: The recollections collection: a people's history, by Karen Joyce and Colin Ball
Unabashedly The Recollections Collection is a peoples’ history of Hindmarsh in South Australia, particularly of locals who lived in the neighbourhoods of Bowden and Brompton. It conflates two modern eras by combining the long-first-half of the twentieth century, the 1890s to 1960s, with the much shorter and radically transformational times of the 1970s and 80s. 29 May, 7-9pm, Brickmakers Arms, Brompton SA.
Further information and registration through the History Festival website
An insider's history of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, by Paul Blackman
This history of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra tells the story from its creation through to the world class ensemble that performs today.
Further information and ordering through Wakefield Press
Calls for papers
International Australian Studies Association (InASA) 2025 Biennial Conference: Australian Studies in the 21st Century: Human and more-than-human worlds
5-7 February 2025. Submissions due 30 September 2024.
Further information on the InASA website
Call for Submissions: New Thinking About Old Histories
Later this year HTAV’s journal Agora will explore the theme ‘New Thinking about Old Histories’. The Editor is seeking contributors who can discuss recent evidence or academic debates that History teachers should know about to update their knowledge and inform their teaching. Referenced articles of up to 2000 words in plain language, aligned with the History curriculum, are due in July.
Prospective contributors should contact the Editor ([email protected]) with a brief outline of their topic and how it would describe ‘new thinking’.
Opportunities
South Australian History Fund 2024
The SA History Fund is an annual grant program offered by the History Trust of South Australia for projects, research, or publications that contribute to the knowledge, understanding, and sharing of South Australia's rich history.
Applications close 7 August 2024.
Further information through the HTSA website
HCNSW Annual Awards
The HCNSW Annual History Awards support and acknowledge contributions towards historical practice and theory and celebrate history in all its diverse forms.
Applications close 9 July, 5pm.
Further information and application through their website
SLNSW Fellowships
The State Library of New South Wales has several fellowships open for applications, including many on historical research and writing.
Further information through their website
NLA 2025 Scholarship and Grant applications
Applications are now open for the 2025 National Library of Australia Scholarships and Asia study Grants.
Applications close 24 June 2024.
Further information through their website
Oral History Australia Awards 2024
Applications are now open for three awards from OHA - the Hazel de Berg Award for Excellence in Oral History and the OHA book and media awards.
Nominations and applications for the three awards close on 31 August 2024.
Further information through Oral History Australia
Bernadette Bean South Australian Records Management Service Excellence Award
Awarded to celebrate those who have dedicated their careers to managing, preserving, and innovating within the fields of records and information management, knowledge management, history and cultural heritage, museum and library collections management. Nominations are now open until 8 July 2023.
Further information on the award website.
The Journal of the Historical Society of South Australia
The next issue is scheduled to be published in November 2024 and they are inviting scholars from all disciplines who are researching South Australian history to submit papers, or proposals for papers, for inclusion in this, and subsequent editions. They would particularly like to encourage post-graduate student and early career researcher contributions.
For more information, visit their website here or contact the editor [email protected]
