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Newsletter 6 August 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
Flinders history research seminar semester 2, 2024
The next semester of seminars will begin on 9 August with Dr Thomas Lalevée speaking on ‘Before Durkheim: The Eighteenth-Century Origins of French Social Science’.
Held Fridays, 11.15am - 12.30pm at Social Sciences South 112 and via Microsoft Teams.
Full schedule and Teams details here (pdf flyer)
Camel trains to steel wheels: Life on the trans-Australian railway
This new exhibition, opening on 24 August, features archival records, photographs and footage that brings to life the railway's first 60 years. At the State Library of SA, until 26 January 2025.
Further information through the National Archives website
Finding family in railway records
Join the National Archives to explore railway records in archival collections and how they might be linked to your family history.
Hetzel lecture theatre, State Library SA, August 27, 12-1pm.
Further information and booking through Eventbrite
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
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:
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 life and times of Charles Frank Field 1850-1950, by Patricia Lee
Charles Frank Field, the author's grandfather, lived from 1850-1950. His parents were pioneers in South Australia arriving in 1839. One hundred years of Australian history is a broad sweep of the canvas. However, the story begins even earlier in the troubled agricultural fields of England, the bankruptcy of Charles’ grandfather, Daniel Field, who owned the majority of land in a village in Berkshire and the emigration of his parents, William and Martha, to a better life in Adelaide. The book includes chapters on Wakefield and Gouger, the instigators and sponsors of immigration to South Australia, Adelaide in the 1840’s, relations with local Aboriginals and South Australia’s copper boom.
Wherever possible, first-hand accounts, rare documents and vivid images recreate the times Charles lived in as his story progresses. This unique view of Australian history should appeal to both history enthusiasts and the general reader alike.
Further information and purchase through Duck Farm Press
Book launch: The death of Dora Black, by Lainie Anderson
Adelaide Hills author and HCSA Committee member Lainie Anderson will launch her charming South Australian murder mystery, The Death of Dora Black, at 7pm on Monday 2 September at the Coventry Library, Stirling. The uplifting, cosy murder mystery is inspired by the true story of Australia's pioneering policewoman Kate Cocks. Lainie will be in conversation with journalist and author, Michelle Prak, chatting about writing, little-known slices of South Australian history, formidable women and more. The event is brought to you by the wonderful team at Matilda Bookshop. Entry/wine are free with pre-ordered copies of the book.
Further information and tickets through Trybooking
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
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]
