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Cranky Handle Rally
Our colleagues, the Hunter Valley Vintage Farm Machinery Club Inc. will be hosting the Cranky Handle Rally 20th & 21st August 2016 at Richmond Vale Railway Museum Located in the historic Richmond...
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Richard Thurnwald and Thomas James Rodoni in the Upper Sepik 1914
Telefolmin men from the highland valley near the source of the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea, September 1914. Image by Dr Richard Thurnwald A small number of an historic hoard of rare images taken in...
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Linda Renz: Re-inventing the Lolita Complex
Linda Renz: Re-inventing the Lolita Complex PhD Exhibition held 24 August – 3 September 2016 Please join the artist for exhibition opening to be launched by Dr Miranda Lawry on Thursday 25 August from...
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Technê: crafting technology
Technê: crafting technology Exhibition from 24 August – 3 September 2016. Please join the artists for the exhibition opening to be launched by Professor Mario Minichiello on Thursday 25 August from...
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2016 Margaret Olley Postgraduate Scholarship
Friends of the University of Newcastle 2016 Margaret Olley Postgraduate Scholarship & 2016 Student Art Prize The Friends of the University of Newcastle play a vital role in the development and...
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Voices of the Hunter Launched
The Voices of the Hunter Project has been launched and the large collection of 800 tracks is available for download. If you are interested in Hunter Valley history this collection is not to be missed....
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Another treat for the rail buffs
The Peter Sansom Collection We were delighted to receive a disk of high resolution photos from Mr Peter Sansom the other day. These feature the Newcastle-Broadmeadow rail line and contain some...
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Vale Neal Lockett
Neal Lockett working Joker, the last known horse to snig pit props in the Minmi area for J & A Brown’s collieries, 1979. The Cultural Collections Team is greatly saddened to learn of the passing...
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CONSALVO | LANKAS | MAHER
Paul Maher, Suburban Opera, (detail), oil on canvas. 170 x 119 cm. CONSALVO | LANKAS | MAHER Curated by Ahn Wells – Director, Gallery 139 The University Gallery is delighted to collaborate with Gallery...
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History@Newcastle Research Seminar Series 2017
History@Newcastle Research Seminar Series, Semester 1, 2017 History@Newcastle Research Seminar Series, Semester 1, 2017 (PDF Version) History@Newcastle Research Seminar Series 2017 Seminars are held in...
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Uncovering Australia’s climate history since European settlement
Uncovering Australia’s climate history since European settlement Free Seminar: 22 March 2017 @1PM Cultural Collections (Auchmuty Library) Sample page from Belfield’s 1877 Meteorological Observing Book...
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History@Newcastle 2017: ‘Violence, Emancipation and the 1917 Russian...
The first History@Newcastle seminar for 2017 will be held on Friday 10 March at 10am in the Cultural Collections Reading Room, Auchmuty Library. FREE Admission. All Welcome. ‘Violence, Emancipation and...
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History@Newcastle 2017: “Sexual Violence and Medicine”
Please join us this Friday 7 April at 10am in Cultural Collections for the third History@Newcastle seminar for the semester, delivered by UoN Global Innovation Chair Professor Joanna Bourke. “Sexual...
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Balnhdhurr – A Lasting Impression
Balnhdhurr – A Lasting Impression Exhibition dates: 19 April – 15 July Please join us for the exhibition opening at the University Gallery on: Wednesday 19 April from 5.30pm This is a free event....
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For our train enthusiasts
3642 being serviced in Broadmeadow Loco, July 1984 We are delighted to report that 1,160 wonderful photographs taken by Peter Sansom, and published with his permission, have been uploaded to Living...
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Penny Dunstan – Shadowlands II
Penny Dunstan SHADOWLANDS PENNY DUNSTAN SHADOWLANDS II In the Upper Hunter Valley, open-cut coal mining is transforming what was once agricultural land into unfamiliar landscapes. The trace of history...
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RAAF memories – WW2
[Noel Thomas Osland, RAAF, c. 1944]We have just uploaded 16 photos from the Ron Osland Collection to our Living Histories @ UON site. This collection from Mr Ron Osland, was made available to us by...
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Engaging with Living Histories @ UON
Would you like to help us to bring the history of our local area to the world? If so, our great new digital platform, Living Histories @ UON, powered by RECOLLECT™ by New Zealand Micrographic...
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Adding captions to AV on LH@UON
We have hundreds of audio and video files on our Living Histories @ UON site. It can be very helpful to have these files captioned so that listeners can jump to the parts of the recordings that...
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GLAM PEAK AUSTRALIA MEETING – HOBART – 24 JULY 2017
Sidney Nolan’s SNAKE on display at MONA, Hobart MEETING NOTES FOR THE 9TH GLAM PEAK GATHERING OF THE GALLERIES, LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES, MUSEUMS & HISTORICAL SOCIETIES (GLAM SECTOR PEAK BODIES)...
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