History Council NSW in Sydney, Australia | Non-profit organisation

History Council NSW

Locality: Sydney, Australia

Phone: +61 418 811 522

Address: 280 Pitt St 2000 Sydney, NSW, Australia

Website: https://historycouncilnsw.org.au/

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25.01.2022 Another great mini-webinar from NSW State Archives!

24.01.2022 Stall holders sell Christmas Bush, in Martin Place, on Christmas Eve in 1935. Source: Fairfax Archives (Harry Martin)

23.01.2022 Virtual Warrane @ Wynyard was entered and shortlisted for this year’s National Trust Heritage Awards in the Aboriginal Heritage category. Hear what Grace Cann f...rom Transport for NSW had to say about being shortlisted. You can find out more about this project here https://bit.ly/38pD08k and watch the 2020 National Trust Heritage Awards online at noon on 12 November 2020 here https://bit.ly/3eEMDBb See more

23.01.2022 History in the making: Message sticks ... have always demanded acknowledgment & mutual respect. Senator Lidia Thorpe arrives to deliver the messages.

23.01.2022 A fantastic array of webinars on Modern History by Sydney Jewish Museum! Teachers & HSC students - this is a great opportunity to refresh your knowledge before trial exams. Check out more below

22.01.2022 Don’t miss out on this great online event at Sydney Living Museums today!

21.01.2022 Congratulations to our HCNSW President, Dr Stephen Gapps for winning the inaugural Les Carlyon Literary Prize! Australian War Memorial

21.01.2022 In this episode of Archives Behind the Scenes we’re talking about Divorce Case Papers. These are our main series of records relating to divorce in NSW and cover... period 1873 up to about 1976 (with a few gaps around the 1960s and 1970s). We hold about 188,000 files, that’s about 10,000 boxes of these records. See what you might find in a file. https://www.records.nsw.gov.au//archives-behind-the-scenes

21.01.2022 This Saturday, don’t forget to book! Details below City of Sydney Historical Association

19.01.2022 A terrific review of Prof Grace Karskens book, People of the River.

19.01.2022 In this month’s Educator’s Pick, Ilana McCorquodale shares her connection to the striped jacket on display in our Holocaust exhibition: This camp uniform was w...orn by George Grojnowski when he was interned in Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945. George changed the yellow triangle to a red triangle in gratitude to the Soviet Army that liberated him from Theresienstadt. The identification number that has been sewn onto the jacket is 116530. When I talk to students about this striped uniform, I am reminded of my late father who was a prisoner in Bergen Belson concentration camp and wore a uniform just like this. I never knew about my father’s history. When I was 8 years old, my mother took me shopping for a Father’s Day gift. We were looking for a shirt, and each one I chose was dismissed by my mum who simply said: ‘daddy can’t wear stripes’. When I demanded clarification, she explained that wearing stripes gave my father nightmares. It was a confusing explanation, and it was the start of my understanding about what my father had experienced in the Holocaust. My dad did not live in the past. But the past did live within him.

19.01.2022 Bentwood chairs, invented by Austrian cabinet maker Michael Thonet, were a 19th-century furniture success story: made of steam-bent parts, they were mass-produc...ed, durable, lightweight, versatile, and popular throughout the world. In Australia, bentwood chairs were widely used in government and commercial buildings, offices and homes, courts and police stations. Bentwood chairs appear in many mugshot photographs from the 1920s ‘Specials’ collection in the NSW Police Forensic Photography Archive. The photos, which are notable for the surprisingly informal poses of the suspects, were mostly taken at Sydney’s Central Police Station and the chairs were part of the police station’s office furniture. A number of surviving chairs and the photo archive are held by the Justice and Police Museum. Read more: slm.is/bentwood #DiscoverSLM Images: 1. Ruby Hardinge, Special Photograph number 441, 7 December 1921, Central Police Station, Sydney. NSW Police Forensic Photography Archive, Justice and Police Museum, Sydney Living Museums. 2. Mugshot of Greta Massey, 26 January 1923, Central Police Station, Sydney. NSW Police Forensic Photography Archive, Justice and Police Museum, Sydney Living Museums. 3. John Dawson, Special Photograph number 481, 23 August 1921.NSW Police Forensic Photography Archive, Justice and Police Museum, Sydney Living Museums. 4. Bentwood chair (after the no 14 design by Michael Thonet), Josef Hofmann, Bielitz Austria, 190014. Justice & Police Museum Collection, Sydney Living Museums. Photo (c) Jamie North.

18.01.2022 New episode of Collected In 1945, a young Indigenous Australian solider recently released from a German prisoner-of-war camp sat to have his portrait painted by... war artist, Stella Bowen. It was nearly 70 years before his identity was discovered. In Episode 24 of Collected, Louise Maher explores the work of the ‘ghost-hunters’ behind the Memorial’s Indigenous Defence List which acknowledges and honours the service of Indigenous Australian defence personnel. Listen here: https://www.awm.gov.au/learn/podcasts/collected Image: Private, Gowrie House. Artist: Stella Bowen. ART26277

16.01.2022 Breaking barriers for women in competitive sports

16.01.2022 Brilliant news. Congrats to Professor Michelle Arrow who has been awarded an ARC SRI Grant to write a biography about Australian Broadcaster Anne Deveson.

16.01.2022 Join us for free screenings of Capturing Change, a documentary following the work of World Press Photo prize winning photographer Matthew Abbott. While record...ing the catastrophic events of the 201920 Australian bushfires, Matt was followed by a film crew who captured the effect of the fires on the people and the country. Enjoy free screenings of the documentary on: Thur 8 Oct 1 pm & 5.30 pm Sat 10 Oct 2 pm & 3 pm Tue 13 Oct 1 pm & 5.30 pm Bookings are essential: https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/capturing-change Presented in partnership with Judith Neilson Institute for Journalism and Ideas. See more

15.01.2022 If you're planning a trip to the lower Blue Mountains this weekend, do drop into the Norman Lindsay Gallery at Springwood. The wisteria is in bloom.

15.01.2022 Free webinar on ‘Records of the Higher Courts’ tomorrow! Register here - http://ow.ly/DayL50Bs2gK & join the NSW State Archives for a very informative session!

13.01.2022 In the wise words of William Arthur Ward - "Another fresh new year is here, another year to live! to banish worry, doubt, and fear, to love and laugh and give!" The History Council of NSW would like to thank all our members, our followers and advocators of history in all its forms, a very Happy Holidays & Happy New Year! We thank you all, dearly, for your support in helping us keep history alive through your programs, events, activities and much more. It has been an exciti...ng year of change and we are encouraged to see how our valued members & supporters have gone above & beyond to deliver, explore and promote history throughout NSW. From HCNSW staff & Councillors to you - we wish you a safe & prosperous new year. Image Still 1: Christmas tree in studio, Sam Hood Collection, Courtesy of The State Library of New South Wales Image Still 3: Radio station 2CH's Children's Christmas party, Trocadero, 1936, Sam Hood Collection, Courtesy of The State Library of New South Wales

13.01.2022 It's our last Archives Behind the Scenes for the year! This episode is all about the School Admission Registers we hold for NSW public schools. See what you can... find in these records. We hope you've enjoyed this series. Stay tuned for more next year! Catch up on all Archives Behind the Scenes episodes: http://ow.ly/6MEj50CB9Cd

13.01.2022 Our friends at the History Council of South Australia have uploaded their Annual History Lecture, 'Pre- and early-colonial South Australia's slavery connections', held on 21 November 2020, to their YouTube Channel! Watch any time & anywhere!

13.01.2022 Australia was the first country to manufacture penicillin for the domestic market. In what year did this happen? Test your knowledge of Australian health with our quiz: bit.ly/2Fajpgi

13.01.2022 We're crashing through on our countdown of the Top 10 most popular photos from our exhibition A Thousand Words. Here we have: No. 5 - Car over bridge No. 6 - S...team engine over cliff If you'd like to add a response visit: www.atwonline.com.au #atwexhibition

12.01.2022 NEW EXPERIENCE: The Harbour Trust has partnered with Google Arts & Culture to showcase our extraordinary places on Sydney Harbour to a wider audience. Check out... our Google Arts & Culture collection to discover why our protected sites are rich sources of discovery. At launch, our collection boasts six immersive exhibitions, which blend historical and contemporary images with video, artworks and 360 footage to inform and inspire. Marvel at the Iron Giants of Cockatoo Island, Sydney Harbour, discover Australia’s original lighthouse, descend into an underground military bunker once shrouded in secrecy, learn about the Traditional Owners and Custodians of our sites, and much more! Explore our collection: artsandculture.google.com/p/sydney-harbour-federation-trust Learn more: harbourtrust.gov.au//building-partner/google-arts-culture/

09.01.2022 A tidbit of history - read more about George Howard below

07.01.2022 This lithograph in our collection is one of 12 by Jewish artist Leo Haas. He created these prints in Prague in 1947, all of which depict confronting images of l...ife and death in concentrations camps and ghettos. Haas' works were denounced as 'degenerate' by the Nazis. As a Jew and also a Communist, he was arrested in 1939 first to Nisko labour camp an then to forced labour in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, where he became involved in the underground. Through the war, Haas used his underground connections to bring in art supplies and smuggle his works out. Haas hid some 400 artworks in the walls of the Theresienstadt ghetto, which he returned to recover after the war.

07.01.2022 What is the history of this cap? This week, in Tarella Cottage Museum, we take a closer look at this small textile item which has been on display in a cabinet f...or many, many years. The label describes it simply as a ‘Smoking Cap’, but is it? Would it be more appropriate to label it as a Muslim prayer cap? Is the pattern Turkish? Provenance is that it simply belongs to Tarella, which means there is a slight possibility that, like other interesting small items, this cap may have arrived in a package of souvenirs posted home from Cairo or Malta by Major Geoffrey McLaughlin during World War 1. What will a new 2020 label state? See more

07.01.2022 Winner of the HCNSW’s The Macquarie-PHA Applied History Award! Sponsored by Macquarie University & Professional Historians Association NSW. Watch their trailer below!!

06.01.2022 Have you been following the stories about the restoration of Tarella Cottage Museum in Wentworth Falls? It’s been a chance to peel away some layers and discover hidden history. See more via the site below

05.01.2022 Hearty congratulations to this year's winners of our annual awards & prizes! This year, we are excited to announce that Professor Paul Ashton has received this year's Annual History Citation in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the study of Australian history and the international practice of public history. This year's winners include:... Elizabeth Heffernan - winner of the 2020 Max Kelly Award for her essay on 'Oh for places - green oases - ' Australian Soldiers and the Environments of the First World War'. Dr Alexandra Dellios - winner of the 2020 Addison Road Community Organisation Award for Multicultural History for her essay on 'Unsettling Post-War Settlement: Remembering Unassimilable Families in the Space of the Migrant Camp | Addison Road Community Organisation Sally Boukarim-Ghattas - winner of the 2020 Aboriginal History Prize for her essay on 'Black Power, Aboriginal Genocide, and the Politics of Identity' & Martha Ansara & Robyn Murphy - winners of The Maquarie-PHA Applied History Award for their documentary on 'Women of Steel' | Macquarie University & Professional Historians Association (NSW) Inc! Congratulations to all our winners & honourable mentions! A truly fantastic array of works that are not only a true testament to the importance of historical practice but also in communicating the past to communities of the present & future. Heartfelt congratulations - let's all keep history alive by supporting our historians and communities for their past, present & future contributions to historical practice & theory inNSW & Australia as a whole.

05.01.2022 FLASHBACK FRIDAY: 50 years ago Campbelltown was celebrating its Sesquicentenary that’s 150 years. Campbellltown was also celebrating the handover of Glenalvon... to Campbelltown Council. This photo was taken from the top floor of Glenalvon of the crowd that gathered for this special occasion, many of whom were wearing period costume. No social distancing then! See more

04.01.2022 Gazing across the drawing room at Vaucluse House, and in countless 19th century interiors around the world, is this bust of a young woman emerging from a flowe...r or a circle of leaves. Though we know her today mainly from these marble-like Parian ware copies, the original on which they are based is far older. But just who is she? And how did she become such an iconic ‘face’? Click on the link to discover more of this intriguing story: https://sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/stories/whos-that-girl #DiscoverSLM #vauclusehouse Image: Parian ware bust of 'Clytie' (1863), after the Roman bust in the Townley collection, British Museum.

04.01.2022 Congrats from all at the HCNSW too!

03.01.2022 Heritage linguist and translator of The Poison of Polygamy discusses the See Yip language. A key to understanding the history and heritage of the Chinese Diaspora in Australia.

03.01.2022 A great interactive activity @ the Museum of Sydney! Make your mark.

01.01.2022 Self-guided Walking Tour from Inner West Council Library and History!

01.01.2022 Missed out on 'A History Degree: What is it good for?' during History Week 2020? We have good news! We have uploaded the recording to the HCNSW History Week 2020 playlist on YouTube. It is set to premiere at 6:30 pm tonight. Lock it in your schedule for today, it is definitely one insightful conversation!... Check out the link below for more information. Hit subscribe on our YouTube channel so you can be notified of new content. Watch any time & any where. Let's keep history alive, together!