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Newsletter 5 September 2023
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HCSA Membership Renewal
As the new financial year is upon us, we ask that you please take the time to renew your memberships for the 2023/2024 financial year (if you have not already done so)
You can renew your membership here.
Memberships can be renewed via credit card, EFT, cheque, and bank transfers. Invoices can be generated at the above link.
Additionally, you may also consider donating to the HCSA, which can be done as you renew, or separately through the link below:
Donate to the HCSA here.
Donations are tax deductible, and go towards supporting:
- The HCSA Fellowship
- The Historian Awards
- Public lectures (regional and city)
- Advocating for history in SA
- Daily operations
- Further work undertaken by the HCSA
We thank you again for your support.
History Council of South Australia Annual General Meeting
Featuring speaker Lainie Anderson on 'The Greatest Air Race' - Sir Ross Smith's 1919 flight from London to Darwin. The HCSA AGM will be held 4 October at the Historian Hotel, 18 Coromandel Place, Adelaide. 5.30pm for a 5.45 start.
Further information on our website here.
Book through Eventbrite here.
Download the Nomination form for election to the Committees here
SA Medical Heritage Society September Meeting
The speaker this month is SAMHS member and pathologist Dr. Philip Allen, who will be speaking on the first pathologist in South Australia.
6pm, 28 September 2023. Royal Society Rooms, Morgan Thomas Lane, Adelaide. Guests welcome but please register beforehand.
Further information here (pdf flyer)
Expressions of Interest: Student viewing of Of Auburn
An iteration of the award-winning history drama Of Auburn for students of Humanities will be performed during History Month in May 2024. The play combines theatre, poetry, personal testimony, music, and immersive audio-visual technology to tell the stories of volunteer nurses in World War I through the real-life character of Madge Yeatman.
Further information here (pdf flyer)
Bernadette Bean SA Records Management Service Excellence Award: Winners announced
The winners of the 2023 award have now been announced. This annual award aims to recognise records management service excellence.
View the winner and merit recipients on the award website
Z Ward: A new era
The title and keys of Z Ward have officially been handed to the National Trust. The historic site's 'Behind the walls' and 'Adelaide Haunted Horizons' tours have garnered such attention that Adelaide Haunted Horizons are now planning to double the number of tours offered.
The National Trust team is exploring possibilities for the future utilisation of Z Ward, aiming to preserve its rich heritage while contributing to the community.
Find out more about Z Ward on its website
Unley Museum is seeking items on LeCornu's
LeCornu's was an icon in the city for many years, and Unley Museum is interested in preserving memories of the site. If you have photographs, catalogs, brochures, or any other LeCornu's material you would be willing to donate to their collection, please email the museum at [email protected]
Lectures, exhibitions, and events
Vickers Vimy: The Great Air Race of 1919
Hear the incredible story from a member of the SA Aviation Museum's History Research Group, Mike Milln. He will explain why the crew was uniquely qualified to achieve one of the greatest aviation feats of all time, the characteristics of the aircraft that made it possible, the highlights of the Great Race in 1919 itself and the post race events that resulted in the Vimy being preserved at Adelaide Airport.
23 November, 7 - 8pm, Unley Town Hall. $2.50 on booking, bookings essential.
Further information through Unley Museum
Labor Academy SA event: The Murdoch Press vs. The Voice
Presented by Dr. Victoria Fielding, who is currently leading a team of researchers to monitor News Corp's Voice coverage.
7pm, 19 September 2023. The Marion Hotel, Mitchell Park SA.
Further information here (pdf)
RSVP through Labor Academy SA's website
Oral History SA/NT workshop: How to do an oral history interview
An introductory workshop on the practice and methods of doing an oral history interview.
10am - 3.30pm, 27 October 2023. Jervois Room, State Library of South Australia.
Further information and tickets through Eventbrite
The bizarre, the weird and the wonderful
Part of the SA Selections series, join the National Archives to hear eccentric stories unearthed from archival records.
12 - 1pm, 26 September 2023, National Archives, North Terrace, Adelaide.
Further information and registration through Eventbrite
Talking History: Wonder Women: Celebrating SA's weird and wonderful women
Four writers and historians discuss their imaginative techniques to tell women's stories. Without these stories our perception of the past is distorted and incomplete.
6 - 8pm, 19 September, Bradley Forum, Hawke Building, UNISA City West Campus.
Further information and registration through Eventbrite
Talk: Shame, shock and awful strife in the holy village
Hear how in the early 1900s writer Thistle Anderson and fiery preacher Elijah the Restorer raised a ruckus in the City of Churches.
11am - 12pm, 19 September 2023, Hetzel Lecture Theatre, State Library SA.
Further information and booking through the library website
Talk: Sowing, mowing, and growing
A stroll through South Australian gardens from colonisation to the 1930s.
11am - 12pm, 10 October 2023, Hetzel Lecture Theatre, State Library SA.
Further information and booking through the library website
Talk: In plain sight: Twentieth century LGBTQIA+ writers in our collection
Learn what a recent discovery by a long-time volunteer tells us about twentieth century LGBTQIA+ writers in our collections.
11am - 12pm, 21 November 2023, Hetzel Lecture Theatre, State Library SA.
Further information and booking through the library website
Professional Historians Association National Conference 2023: Other Histories: Other Audiences
To be held in Adelaide, 16-17 September 2023.
Further information and registration through their website
Flinders History Seminars Semester 2
The seminars are back on in semester 2, but unfortunately this week's seminar is being rescheduled, and there will not be one on this week.
Schedule and further information here.
Meet the author - Dean Ashenden
In Telling Tennant's Story, Dean combines memoir, political, and intellectual history to understand how the story of 'relations between two racial groups' has been told and not told. 28 September, 7-8pm, Unley Town Hall. $4 on booking, bookings essential.
Further information and registration through the City of Unley website
Bay to Birdwood 2023
Registrations for this year's Bay to Birdwood - one of the world's great historic motoring events - have opened, with places filling up fast.
The event will be held 22 October 2023.
Further information and registration here.
2023 Musicological Society of Australia Conference: Open Borders: The Future of Music Research
Being held 29 November to 2 December 2023, Adelaide.
Further information available here.
The Pioneer's Association of South Australia
The association has released their calendar of events for 2023.
Book an event by emailing your details to [email protected]. Please include the event code i.e. (E23-02)
For further information, including payment details, view the events page on their website here.
Around the country
One million Second World War records now digitised
In July the National Archives of Australia surpassed this significant milestone as part of a large-scale digitisation effort.
More information on their website
Digitised NSW subdivision plans
Over 4,600 historic plans of 460 regional towns in NSW have recently been digitised and made available for the first time.
Search and view the collection on the State Library of NSW website
World's first exhibition of 19th century Australia's best unknown artist, Charles Rodius
The State Library of NSW is currently staging the first retrospective exhibition of Charles Rodius (1802 - 1860), featuring over 90 original watercolours, drawings, and prints, many never seen by Australian audiences. On now until 12 May 2024.
Further information on the SLNSW website
Book releases
Above the Mists of Ages: The Anzac Legend in Historical Practice, by Richard Travers
In this work of historiography, Richard Travers explores the ways in which military history has been conceptualised and written over the last century.
Further information through Australian Scholarly Publishing
The Swagman's Friend: The story of Peterborough's large-hearted Police Sergeant Wright, by Jeff Noble
Roy Wright arrived in Peterborough in early October 1929, just over three weeks before the Black Tuesday stock market crash. This book is the story of the town of Peterborough and of Sergeant Wright, and how together they showed compassion and care to those in need during the Depression.
Further information through Barnes and Noble
Sprigg Salon & Book Launch: John Rymill - Polar Pioneer, by Peter Rymill
Peter Rymill will be hosting the Adelaide launch of his biography of his father, at the SA museum, 6-11pm, Friday 29 September.
Further information and bookings through Humanitix
Calls for papers
Journal Special Issue: Culturally Specific Museums: Between Diasporic Culture and Australian Heritage
Call for papers closes 20 December 2023.
Further information here (pdf)
Symposium: Political Lives: Political Biography, Memoir, and Australian Democracy
Symposium being held 4-5 December 2023, at the University of Adelaide. Abstracts due 29 September 2023.
Further information here (pdf)
Studies In Oral History: Oral histories of working lives and workplace culture
Submissions due 1 December 2023.
Further information here (pdf).
Extended Call for Papers: HCSA 20 Year Anniversary Book Project
Dear HCSA members, 2023 marks 20 years of the HCSA, and we are seeking expressions of interest in contributing to a commemorative anniversary book. Due to significant interest in the project, we have decided to reopen and extend the call for papers.
Submissions will be short pieces (up to 600 words + 1 image) that showcase a unique aspect of South Australian history. If you are interested in participating, please send your name, contact details and a brief description (1-2 sentences) of what you or your organisation may wish to contribute by 30 September 2023. Please also make sure you are a current financial member of the HCSA.
All expressions of interest or questions can be directed to our secretary: [email protected]
2023 Australasian Drama Studies Conference: Archives, Artists, and Absences
Being held 27 November to 1 December 2023, Adelaide.
Further information here.
Opportunities
Senior Lecturer in History: University of Adelaide
Full time role. Applications close 24 September 2023.
Further information through the university
2023 Peter Lang Emerging Scholars Competition in Indigenous Studies
Proposals are invited from emerging scholars in Indigenous Studies for single-author books. The winner(s) will be offered a Gold Open Access contract for their book. Proposals due 30 September.
Further information on the publisher's website
