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Donation Honours Memory of Griffith Duncan
I Look Ahead – Towards A Better World (University of Newcastle and Newcastle Teachers’ College, later Newcastle College of Advanced Education Mottos) A small ceremony held in the University’s Auchmuty...
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Shifting perspectives
Fan Dongwang, Dragon, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 180 x 180cm FAN DONGWANG Shifting Perspectives: paintings 1995 – 2015 A twenty-year survey of Chinese born artist Fan Dongwang Exhibition at the...
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The Newcastle University College Revues 1958-1965
Colin Anderson (Photograph courtesy of Robert Eather) The late Dr Colin Robert Anderson, pictured above in his younger student days, passed away in 2014. He was the director and prime mover of the...
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Troy
Heinrich Schliemann Australian papers report on the discoveries of Heinrich Schliemann The discoveries of Heinrich Schliemann, excavator of Troy and Mycenae, were enthusiastically reported in various...
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Signature: Celebrating Our Artist Graduates
Signature Celebrating Our Artist Graduates Exhibition at the University Gallery 23 September – 7 November 2015 A casual read of any of the University’s Seahorse alumni magazines cannot fail to impress...
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Margaret Henry Oral History Archive
The Margaret Henry Oral History Archive is a collection of audio tapes, transcripts, summaries and essays that were part of the Open Foundation Course (1986-1989). The wider collection of Margaret...
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Liminal Exhibition at the University Gallery
liminal /ˈlimənl/ adjective technical 1. Relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process. 2. Occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold. Liminal celebrates the art...
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NUSA on Flickr
Our colleagues in the Newcastle University Students Association are uploading their photographic archive to Flickr. Take a trip down memory lane by visiting their site.
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Margaret Henry Oral History Archive – Digitised Collection
Margaret Henry The Margaret Henry Oral History Archive is a collection of audio tapes, transcripts, summaries and essays that were part of the Oral Histories Open Foundation Course (1986-1989)....
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Hunter Valley Theatre Company records archived
“The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll”, first performed by The Hunter Valley Theatre Company on 2 March, 1988. (This photograph was scanned from HVTC Archives Box A9029) See more of the Hunter Valley...
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Time Tunnel: Auchmuty and Huxley Libraries in the 1990s
A VHS Video tape containing footage of student life in and around the Auchmuty and Huxley Libraries during the 1990s has surfaced. The original VHS Tape “Library Footage with Timecode”. In the films...
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Voices of the Hunter – Digitised Oral History Tapes
Hundreds of Hunter Valley oral history tapes have been made available on our Sound Cloud site and more are being added every week, as part of the Voices of the Hunter project. Historian Jack Delaney...
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From Earth to Spirit
From Earth to Spirit Indigenous art from Arnhem Land & the Tiwi Islands, NT This exhibition features works in the University Art and Museum Collections by Australian Indigenous artists from Arnhem...
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The Harry Lindner collection
Wyong, NSW. [n.d.] Photo by Harry Lindner The Harry Lindner Collection We have recently uploaded to Flickr a collection of photos from a disk purchased and kindly provided by Barry Howard. The photos...
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Vale Edward (Ted) Brennan 1935-2014
Edward (Ted) Brennan 1935-2014 (Photo: Courtesy of Pam Brennan & Family) This month we were saddened to hear of the passing of Ted Brennan on the 13 April 2014. Edward (Ted) Brennan was born on 30...
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GLAM DIGITAL ACCESS ROUNTABLE – MELBOURNE 2016
GLAM – Digital Access Meeting, Melbourne Museum, Melbourne 25 February 2016 We attended the fourth meeting of the representatives of national GLAM (i.e., Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums)...
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Great War
Gas Masks – taken by Lt Thomas Fahey in the Middle East theatre, WW1 Did you know that we have several fascinating collections which feature photos from World War 1? These could be invaluable for the...
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A special day in 1903
A Special Day for Pelaw Main The 26 January 1903 was a very special day for Margaret Holden and Arthur Griffith, a young couple from Pelaw Main in the Coalfields. Courtesy of the Coalfields Heritage...
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A magic moment between Vera and TROVE
During a marathon six hour oral history interview on 10 March 2016 with Mrs Vera Deacon, Dr Ann Hardy asked her about a letter she penned back in the 1940s to the Newcastle Morning Herald. Vera had...
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Dr Jillian Barnes –‘Prison Tourism – a subset of Dark Tourism?’
History@Newcastle Research Seminar: 4 March 2016 Dr Jillian Barnes—University of Newcastle Prison Tourism – a subset of Dark Tourism? The challenges of interpreting Shades of Violence through...
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