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Newsletter 27 June 2024
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HSSA Keain Medal
The winners of the Historical Society of South Australia's 2023 Keain Medal have been recently announced. the winners were:
Judy Fander for Where treasures shine. Lionel Gee, a forgotten South Australian mining identity (SA, Sturdee Press, 2023)
Walter Marsh for Young Rupert. the making of the Murdoch empire (Melbourne, Scribe, 2023).
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
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
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
Independent Arts Foundation Literary Night
July's literary dinner will feature Dr. Susan Arthure discussing her book Irish women in the Antipodes: foregrounded.
23 July 2024, 6.30pm - 9.30pm. Osmond Terrace Function Centre, Norwood SA. IAF members $40, non-members $45.
Further information and booking through Trybooking
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!
Talking History 2024 program
Talking History is returning with a renewed focus on the South Australian story. The next event is Prof. Marian Quartly, Alan Atkinson, Judith Francis, and Rose Rawady speaking on Revealing SA Through Family History.
11 July, 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 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
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.
If you, or someone you know, would like to run a session at the conference, please email the completed form to [email protected] by COB 26th July 2024.
Further information and nomination form 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
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.
Applications close 12 July 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]
