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Newsletter 6 November 2024
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The HCSA is the state’s peak history body, providing a representative voice on historical issues and celebrating and raising the profile of history across South Australia.
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History Council of South Australia 2025 Fellowship
Our annual HCSA Fellowship is now open.
The Fellowship is an annual prize of $2,000. It provides support for Australians researching and writing about South Australian history.
The HCSA Fellowship was launched on 21 August 2020 in association with the State Library of South Australia and through the generous support of donors, including the Marsden Szwarcbord Foundation.
Applications close on 15 November.
For more information, visit the HCSA website here.
Federation of Australian Historical Societies October Newsletter
The latest edition of the federation's newsletter is now available
Read it online on their website here
SA Labour History Society Spring Newsletter
The latest edition of the society's newsletter has been published.
Read it here (pdf).
Angaston and Penrice Historical Society October newsletter
The October 2024 edition of The Angastonian is now available.
Read it online here (pdf).
Burnside Historical Society October Bulletin
The Society's latest monthly bulletin is out now.
Read it here (pdf).
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.
Around the country
Pompeii: inside a lost city
An immersive experience on life in the ancient city. Combines soundscapes and surrounding projections with over 90 objects including frescoes, jewellery, sculptures, and pottery. Coming to the National Museum of Australia, Canberra. From 13 December 2024.
Further information and tickets through the National Museum website
State Library NSW Fellows announced
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of their prestigious awards program, the NSW State Library has unveiled its largest-ever cohort of fellows.
Read more on the library's website here
Lectures, exhibitions, and events
HCSA Annual Regional Lecture 2024
Each year, the History Council of South Australia presents an Annual Regional Lecture in association with individuals or regional history groups to expand and promote historical books, collections, places, and stories.
This year the Annual Regional Lecture will be held in Mount Gambier, in partnership with the Mount Gambier Library (City of Mount Gambier) on the 28th of November. The event will feature roundtables with experts from far and wide to talk about 'Our Stories - Our History', and a keynote given by Peter Christopher OAM.
If you love family history, local history, delving deep into old collections, visiting museums, stately houses and cemeteries, why not get involved in the all day history ‘get-together' on Thurs 28 November 2024, when history experts and enthusiasts from all over the state converge on the Mount Gambier Library to share all sorts of exciting new discoveries, sources and services?
This all-day event will culminate with the 2024 HCSA Annual Regional Lecture called 'Diving Deeper into What Makes the South-East Unique', a compelling keynote from Peter Christopher, OAM, who will reflect on his decades of traveling, working and diving the depths of the South-East as a researcher and writer of shipwrecks and paddle steamers.
For more details and bookings, see our Regional Event page
SA labour History Society Public Meeting - Sunday 1 December 2024
The next LHS Public meeting is at 2.00pm on Sunday 1 December in the Regent Room at the Box Factory Community Centre. Nix Herriot will speak about the student occupation of Flinders University Registry in 1974. His History Honours thesis was an oral history of the occupation and one of the participants he interviewed, Andrew McHugh, will also speak. 2024 is, of course, the 50th anniversary of that occupation which has been called the heyday of student radicalism in SA.
Port Adelaide Historical Society Dinner
Join the PAHS for a three-course dinner at the Semaphore Clubrooms. Featuring a history quiz and other entertainment.
20 November, 6.30pm - 10pm.
Further information and tickets through Humanitix
History Council of Victoria Annual Lecture
Featuring Professor Katie Holmes speaking on 'Drought, flooding rains and futures: environmental history in the Murray Darling Basin.'
14 November, 6pm. State Library of Victoria and online.
Further information and booking through their website
Shared histories: Dutch-Australian migration
Explore a selection of Dutch-Australian migration records discovered as part of the 4-year Dutch and Australian shared histories project. 20 November, 5.30 - 5.30pm ACDT, online.
Further information and registration through Eventbrite.
Radical Textiles
This exhibition celebrates the cutting-edge innovations, enduring traditions, and bodies of shared knowledge that have been folded into fabric and cloth over the past 150 years.
At the Art Gallery of South Australia, 23 November 2024 - 30 March 2025.
Tickets start at $15.
Further information through the AGSA website
Working on the railway: the migrant experience
A presentation with historian Karen Agutter on the experiences of post-Second World War migrants building and maintaining Australian railways.
26 November, 12 - 1pm. Hetzel Lecture Theatre, North Terrace, Adelaide.
Further information and registration through Eventbrite
Picture this! How to use PhotoSearch
An online event featuring tips and tricks for using the National Archives' online photographic database.
14 November, 11.30am - 12.30pm.
Further information and registration through Eventbrite
Provocations: arguing about history
Two historians in conversation with Dr. Anne-Marie Schwirtlich about where Australian history is now and where it is going.
Watch the talk on Youtube here
Trust in Playford: SA's longest serving Premier
A new display about the state's longest serving Premier, Sir Thomas Playford. Learn about his vision and the impact he had on South Australia.
16 September 2024 - 31 March 2025, 10am - 5pm. Institute Building, Kintore Avenue, Adelaide.
University of Adelaide historical and classical studies seminar series 2024
The last seminar for semester two will feature Rob Foster and Skye Krichauff speaking on 'The South Australian Frontier and its legacies.' on 11 November. Seminars are held Mondays in Napier 420, 12pm.
Further information here (pdf flyer).
Camel trains to steel wheels: Life on the trans-Australian railway
This new exhibition 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
Book releases
Breakout! The Tasmanians who terrorised Victoria, by Robert Cox
Two killers. A tainted trial. A bungled execution.
The killers were Pevay and Timme. In 1841 they slew two men and wounded others in an angry rampage through the Victorian countryside.
As Tasmanian Aborigines, they had many reasons to be angry.
When teenagers they'd been jailed for being black. They'd taken unwilling part in the ethnic cleansing of Tasmania. Forcedly interned in a bleak offshore gulag, they'd watched helplessly as friends and family died of disease and despair.
Then they were exiled to Victoria where colonists victimised them. It was the last straw. They stole guns and seized their freedom.
Their breakout was vengeful and violent. Farms were raided, settlers shot. Despite firefights and ambushes, they evaded pursuers for weeks before being captured in a blaze of gunfire.
Their murder trial was a farce. Public officials lied under oath. The judge was biased and inept. The verdict was a foregone conclusion.
Now, for the first time, their tragic story is told in full. From their perilous boyhood during Tasmania's Black War to their botched hanging in a crowded Melbourne street.
Further information and purchase through Wakefield Press
Calls for papers
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]
Call for Papers
The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History has launched a new 'Current Debates' section, edited by Dr Jonas Fossli Gjersø! If you are interested in contributing, please see the CfP for more information.
More information on H-Net
South Australian Modernism and the Everyday: Public Symposium
The Architecture Museum is excited to announce a call for papers for its 2025 symposium. They are inviting abstracts for 15 minute oral presentations on the topic of South Australian modernism and the everyday. To be held 21 February 2025, Pridham Hall level 2, Hindley Street, Adelaide.
Abstracts due 21 November 2024.
Further information here (pdf)
Opportunities
ASO4 - Administrative Coordinator to Deputy CEO
History Trust of South Australia
Further information through I Work for SA
Casual Visitor Engagement Officer
History Trust of South Australia
Further information through I Work For SA
