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Newsletter 26 July 2024
News
Job Ready Graduates Package
The History Council has written to the Federal Minister for Education regarding the ongoing harmful effects of the differential student fees imposed by the Job Ready Graduates Package.
Read more on our Advocacy page here.
Labour History Society SA winter newsletter 2024
The latest edition of the LHSSA newsletter is now available.
Read it here (pdf)
How all-female 'juries of matrons' shaped legal history
Our 2024 Fellow, Dr. Alice Neikirk, recently wrote this article for The Conversation, building off her work in the State Records back in April.
Read the article on the Smithsonian Magazine website here
State Library Customer Survey 2024
The State Library is seeking feedback from customers about their services and collections, both at North Terrace and online.
View and complete the survey here
Port Adelaide Historical Museum Community Lottery
The museum is taking part in the 2024 People First Community Lottery to help raise funds to upgrade the museum at 95 Fletcher Road.
View the fundraiser on the Community Lottery website
Barossa News Digitisation Project GoFundMe
Local organisations are raising funds to support the digitisation of the Barossa News for digital access via Trove.
Further information here (pdf)
View the GoFundMe here
Bay to Birdwood registrations are now open
The 2024 Bay to Birdwood will be held on October 20, 2024. Registrations are now open and filling up fast, so register your vehicle now.
Further information and registration through the event website
Encounter Celebration Organisation Community Lottery
The organisation are raising funds to erect a sculpture to commemorate Captain Flinders and Baudin and the local Indigenous community in memory of their historic encounter in 1802. They are fundraising through the Community lottery 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
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
Professional Historians Association (SA) 2024 Program
The PHA (SA) is holding a series of ‘History at the Historian’ discussion and networking events for all historians (professionals, community and amateur, academic and student historians), as well as all involved in the GLAM sector and related endeavours.
The inaugural event will feature South Australia's History Advocate, Dr Kiera Lindsey, speaking about the outcomes of the SASSi project.
Monday, 16 August, 6pm to 8pm at the Historian Hotel, 18 Coromandel Place, Adelaide. All welcome!
Further information available here (pdf flyer).
Author talks: The trials of Billy Freeman, by Alan Atkinson
Alan Atkinson will be speaking about his book at two events:
At the Pioneer's Association August meeting. Westbourne Park Uniting Church, 27 Sussex Terrace, Hawthorn. 12 August, 12 - 2pm. Free event, all welcome.
At Victor Harbour Library, 1 Bay road, Victor Harbour. 26 August, 2.30 to 3.30 pm. Free event.
Further information and registration for the Victor Harbour event here
Labour History Society SA AGM
The Labour History Society of South Australia, Annual General Meeting will be held Sunday 18 August commencing 2.00 pm at the Box Factory, Regent St South.
The President and seven members of the Executive Committee will be elected at the AGM. If you are interested in standing, nominations will be called at the AGM and all candidates must be financial members to be eligible to stand or vote.
Further information here (pdf)
Curator talk: Disrupt, persist, invent
Join National Archives curator Catriona Donnelly for an insight into the exhibition currently on show in the State Library Gallery.
Further information and registration through the State Library website
Australian Society of Archivists (ASA) 2024 Conference: Opening the Archives: Access, Engagement, Innovation
To be held in Ōtautahi | Christchurch, New Zealand, from 22-25 October 2024. Registrations are now open and will close on October 7.
Further information through their website here
Cornucopia: Gardens and gardening in South Australia
The State Library exhibition is now online in a digital format.
Check it out here
Talking History 2024 program
Talking History is returning with a renewed focus on the South Australian story. The next event is Dr Susan Marsden, Jenny Molloy, Karen Briggs, and Dr Mark Staniforth speaking on Painting South Australia's Past.
13 August, 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
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:
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
Oral History at a distance, by Steven Sielaff, Stephen M. Sloan, Adrienne A. Cain Darough, and Michelle Holland
This book, recently published by Baylor University, explores the ideas behind and the application of oral history in remote projects.
Preorder a physical copy
Also available online as an Open Access title through Taylor & Francis
Harry Hodgetts: The flawed broker behind Don Bradman's move to Adelaide
Hodgetts was Adelaide's leading stockbroker, but he is best remembered as the man who struck a deal to have the young Don Bradman move to Adelaide. This is a complex and riveting story of a hard-working, gifted social climber who fell into bankruptcy and a prison cell.
Further information and ordering through Wakefield Press
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.
Further information and ordering through Wakefield Press
If you don't fight... you lose, by Catherine Speck, Jude Adams, Julie Ewington, and Suzanne Close
Tells the story of Adelaide's Progressive Art Movement, which united artists, writers, poets, filmmakers, actors, and musicians determined to cultivate a politically progressive culture rooted in local issues while vehemently opposing US imperialism.
Further information and ordering through Wakefield Press
New edition: The Wakefield Companion to South Australian History, edited by Wilfrid Prest, Kerrie Round, Sandra Kearney, and Bernard O'Neil
A one-volume guide to events, institutions, people, places, themes, and topics of significance in the history of South Australia.
Further information and ordering through Wakefield Press
More than just bricks and mortar, by John White
Now in it's third reprint, this major publication covers the history of every police station in SA 1838 - 2018, as well as the NT 1870 - 1911. This publication as well as John White's Police on the move: an amazing journey of horses to horsepower are available to purchase at Police Credit Union branches.
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
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
Call for Papers: HTASA 2024 State Conference
Friday September 6th
The History Teachers’ Association of South Australia would like to announce that the 2024 HTASA State Conference: ‘Ripples in Time’ will be held on Friday, 6th September 2024, at the Education Development Centre, Hindmarsh.
Further information through the HTASA website
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
Journal seeks articles comparing Australia in the World Wars
The Editor of Agora is seeking contributors from historians for an upcoming issue on the theme ‘Comparing the World Wars’ with a particular focus on Australia.
Agora is the professional reading journal of the History Teachers’ Association of Victoria, so submissions need to target themes studied as part of the Year 9–10 History Curriculum investigation ‘Australians at War (1914–1945)’. As an indication, articles may compare:
- the causes of World War I and World War II
- the reasons that Australians fought in the world wars
- the experiences and perspectives of those who fought or were deployed overseas
- significant consequences of the world wars on Australian society
- the experiences and historical perspectives of those on the home front
- different interpretations and debates about the significance and legacies of the world wars.
Submissions of up to 2000 words, plus references, are due by 21 October 2024.
Email a brief proposal to [email protected]
See the website here for contributor guidelines.
Opportunities
ASO6 Project manager - Priscilla
The History Trust of South Australia is looking for a Project Manager to help realise their ambitious plans to restore Priscilla, queen of the Desert.
Applications due 6 August 2024.
Further information and application through IworkforSA
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
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
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]
