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22.01.2022 Why not apply for a HCSA Fellowship? Applications are due soon, by 30 November. Whether you are an established or an emerging historian, professional or voluntary, resident in city or country, here, interstate or overseas, you can apply for the first-ever fellowship in South Australian history. You may need some financial support for a research visit to Adelaide, perhaps for an airfare, and apart from a grant, help is available from the State Library of SA. Details of the fellowship and the form are on the website of the History Council of South Australia. https://www.historycouncilsa.org.au/history-council-of-sou/

22.01.2022 Brighid Marsden

20.01.2022 Gabriella Princi, masked but still serving at the family’s fruit and veg shop on Thursday 19 November 2020, day 1 of SA’s new lockdown. The picture tells a complex story about herself, the business (also shown in our video of Rocky Princi, on YouTube in session 4), and local history - including the historical photos of their shop and the shopping centre, placed on the high shelf behind Gabriella. So, here’s to the Princi family and other essential workers, and to MSzF’s Make history at home series continuing through lockdown and beyond. #marsdenszwarcbordfoundation #mszfmakehistoryathome #mszfmakehistoryathome1 #mszfmakehistoryathome4

20.01.2022 An excellent example of how fascinating collections of local history photos are compiled and shared.

19.01.2022 When we started to present Make history at home earlier this year, just as the pandemic was ramping up, we suggested that when 'starting with yourself', you keep and share a Covid-19 memoir, or your own experience of other momentous events. We posted links to libraries that invite your contributions (see our earlier posts). Museums and other institutions around the world are doing the same, such as the Smithsonian (USA), and the National Museum of Australia.

19.01.2022 Royal Historical Society of Victoria City of Melbourne History Museum

18.01.2022 Dr Paul Whitbread was given bags of family photos spanning 5 generations in the UK and Australia, all unsorted. Watch him unpack and talk about how he might start to organise them, filmed by MSzF for 'Make history at home', posted to YouTube and Facebook. #marsdenszwarcbordfoundation #mszfmakehistoryathome3 - Session 3: What to do with all those photographs? #mszfmakehistoryathome5 - Session 5 - Q&A and Illustrations

18.01.2022 Marsden Szwarcbord Foundation's Friday puzzle. Last Friday (13 November 2020) we posted a query about where we photographed the artwork on a wheat silo, and who the artist was. The answers are: Waikerie in South Australia's Riverland, and the artist is Garry Duncan. To continue this theme, here's another wheat silo artwork in a small SA town-where is it, and who painted this massive work?

17.01.2022 Make history at home session 1: Start with yourself - Migration stories in this series, to Australia from Malaysia, UK, Scotland and South Africa, Ireland, Poland, France, Serbia and Italy. See and hear them on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube. #marsdenszwarcbordfoundation #mszfmakehistoryathome1

17.01.2022 Introducing Susan Marsden and Michael Szwarcbord. They are the founders and directors of the philanthropic Marsden Szwarcbord Foundation, a registered Australian charity dedicated to supporting historical writing. History writing takes many forms. Just look at the variety of posts on our Facebook page, the videos on YouTube and the photos on Instagram. Check out our website, mszfhistory.org.au to see other history projects we support. Our historian intern, Sandra Kearney, is ...co-producing with Susan our current and ongoing project 'Make history at home'. https://youtu.be/Wl7q_zR3Igw

16.01.2022 Marsden Szwarcbord Foundation 'Make history at home - Session 1: Start with yourself'. Write up and share your history of migration in published memoirs and oral histories. (Books are in Susan's library: We came to Oz...1994; Ten pound Poms...2005; Stories behind the faces 2011; Traditions lost... 2013). (Posted from Instagram 2020)

13.01.2022 Make history at home session 2: Family treasures (posted 1 December 2020) You may be a skilled historian, but that doesn’t mean that you’re any further advanced than anyone else in organising your own or your family histories, and because you’re a historian you probably have accumulated more records than most people. So, through 2020 as we created the Make history at home series, we asked other professional historians to tell us what they are (or think they should be) doing...Continue reading

12.01.2022 Make history at home Session 2 Family Treasures Posted 30 October 2020 One simple and lively way of doing family history is to talk with someone in your family and write their story. Sam Allen has talked with his father-in-law Malcolm Hatchard, and written this gem for Make history at home.... Saturday Night Fever: the story of Disco Mal (by Sam Allen) In Adelaide in 1978, Malcolm Hatchard was a 20 year old boat builder by day and state champion disco dancer by night. Having grown up with 11 siblings, he was unaccustomed to privilege, so flying in a 6-seat Cessna with his dancing partner, Cheryl, alongside a local celebrity and his Miss Australia girlfriend, was unusual and exciting. Their destination was the national Saturday Night Fever competition held in Melbourne at the ABC’s Channel 2 studios. Hosted by Ian ‘Molly’ Meldrum and singer John Paul Young, as part of the popular television show, Countdown, the competition was live across the country. Malcolm and Cheryl’s first dance was to KC and the Sunshine Band’s Boogie Shoes, and Malcolm kicked and strutted across the kaleidoscopic dancefloor in his 7 inch platforms with energy and skill. They were in with a chance to win and after the final group dance-off to the Bee Gees’ More than a Woman, the results were announced. They had come in second place. Not bad for a boat builder from Adelaide. The video is on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBnUpmt0UrI&feature=youtu.be For a brief history of the famous Countdown pop music program, hosted by Ian "Molly" Meldrum, and aired on ABC TV from 1974 for 13 years, search for ‘Countdown memories’ online.

12.01.2022 Friday puzzle (posted 23.10.20) Please post your replies in comments below, or share with family, friends or history groups who may have some answers. For Victorians, who've stoically waited out the lockdown on behalf of all Australians, here's a set of intriguing questions about some delightful scenes of Melbourne and rural Victoria in a 'Folding souvenir card'. Our questions: Who was Mrs CC Smith, and did she live at this address in Sandwell? Where (and when) were these t...hree country scenes taken? Who's the boy? History Council of South Australia History Trust of South Australia State Records of South Australia State Library of South Australia

11.01.2022 For short and sweet history tips with pictures visit #mszfmakehistoryathome

11.01.2022 History Teachers' Association of Victoria (HTAV)

11.01.2022 Coming out of lockdown? Still in quarantine? Just spending more time at home or pondering existence? Here to watch, enjoy, act on the easy to follow advice and share are the 16 ‘Make history at home’ videos we’ve created so far and pasted to YouTube and Facebook. Each of them addresses a topic (sessions 1-6) or provides advice in Soundbites. Enjoy! #marsdenszwarcbordfoundation #mszfmakehistoryathome

10.01.2022 Friday puzzle: can you find on this Facebook page the several times Michael has shared his own and his family history?

09.01.2022 Session 7 History Soundbites No 2, Artlab intro and some bug advice. Posted 28 October 2020 Today, historians Susan Marsden and Sandra Kearney returned to Artlab in Adelaide to speak with Kristin Phillips, Principal Textiles Conservator, and Mary-Anne Gooden, Textiles Conservator, about conserving a family treasure that has been in Susan's family since 1899. Who would have thought silverfish are vegetarian and selective in their diet, while carpet beetles and clothes moths a...re the main enemy for fabric treasures, after light and poor storage! MSzF YouTube link: https://youtu.be/X00QmZSaW98 Check out Artlab's website for information on their Consultative Day

08.01.2022 Marsden Szwarcbord Foundation, ‘Make history at home, session 1: Start with yourself (posted 25 November 2020) The older we get the greater the variety of histories we have to tell. Judith Brown provides a nice illustration. After watching a webinar on the Spanish flu of 1918-19, Judith asked if the Spanish flu was still around in 1951, because, she wrote, ‘I fell ill on a ship going to England and was diagnosed with Spanish Flu. I was put straight into isolation on arrival ...- it was rather funny actually because the only bed available was in a children's ward... Into this came what appeared to be Gulliver in Lilliput (me) and they spent their time standing up in their cots and watching me. What I actually had was Glandular Fever but that wasn't known then so they put a notice on my door saying "Diphtheria ?" as, by then, they must have changed their minds about Spanish Flu ... The specialist used to bring round a batch of students every morning to look at us and one morning one of them asked, "But what exactly, sir, has she got?", to which the good man replied, "This, gentlemen, is the greatest case of self-pity in the hospital". (Email 9 May 2020). When Sandra and Susan visited on 9 May we asked Judith for a photo of herself (then, Judith Hodge) in 1951 to illustrate this story. This prompted another recollection, of trying to further her career in London, as many young Australian women did. Judith scanned and sent a glamorous portrait she had taken in London. ‘I spent years in the Adelaide Repertory Theatre and (forgive me for saying so) with such success that I felt the world was my oyster and that I would set off for England to break into theatre there. I was advised that the first thing one must do was to get a good photo taken and was sent to the photographer who photographed Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier amongst others. He was delightful and very professional’. (Email, 10 October 2020). Back in Adelaide, Judith presented on 5DN radio, and on ABC television. See also: Judith M Brown website, http://www.judithmbrown.com, and The Australian Live Performance Database, http://godric.csem.flinders.edu.au/pages/contributor/259181 See more

06.01.2022 Session 7 History Soundbites No 3, ArtLab and family treasures (Lace tablecloth) Posted 28 October 2020 The stories that are associated with a family treasure can often be surprising. Take this lace tablecloth from 1899 as an example. Kristin Phillips, Principal Textiles Conservator and Mary-Anne Gooden, Textile Conservator, both from ArtLab in Adelaide took us on a journey today as they examined the craftsmanship, the motifs, the lacework, and importantly a woman's history... within a family that is sometimes overlooked. MSzF YouTube link: https://youtu.be/6URgWFuXWN8 Artlab's Consultative Day: https://www.artlabaustralia.com.au/advice

06.01.2022 Marsden Szwarcbord Foundation's Friday puzzle (posted 27 November 2020). How many Australian family photos show Dad at the beach? Here's one of them enjoying the sun at Point Lonsdale in Victoria c1910. He was also one of the most renowned figures in Australian history. Who was he? (We'll also post the source and acknowledgement next week). Last week's Friday puzzle of another wheat silo artwork is at the township of Coonalpyn in South Australia, looming beside Dukes highway.... The artist Guido van Helten painted 5 Coonalpyn primary school children as the first silo artwork in SA (completed in 2017) as well as the first in Victoria (the Brim mural), in both cases soon demonstrating the power of culture to revive the fortunes of rural towns. When posting a letter today we saw that the stamps represent two other wheat silo artworks, in NSW and Queensland. See more

05.01.2022 For those just starting to research family history, or the histories of other individuals, you might like to register for a session on 'Googling your ancestors' via Zoom on 7 December, arranged by Family History Down Under for a small fee. See: https://www.fhdu.online/courses/googling-your-ancestors. Source: FHDU, Unlock the past newsletter 1 December 2020.

05.01.2022 Make history at home We hope you are enjoying our posts while picking up some tips and ideas about how to Make history at home. Send us your stories, your photographs, or your queries and questions about your history and how to make it.... Let's get people making history. Please share our posts with others in your circle. Check out our YouTube Channel, How to make history. MSzFoundation and our posts on Instagram #mszfMakeHistoryAtHome [Brighton Jetty, photograph Sandra Kearney, February 2020]

05.01.2022 Marsden Szwarcbord Foundation at work: Dr Susan Marsden (R) and Intern Historian Sandra Kearney in the study where we are producing the series ‘Make history at home’ on Instagam #mszfmakehistoryathome; on YouTube and on Facebook.

05.01.2022 Session 7 History Soundbites No 4, Artlab, and the storing of a family treasure (Lace tablecloth). Posted 28 October 2020 At Artlab in Adelaide today, Kristin Phillips, Principal Textiles Conservator, and Mary-Anne Gooden, Textiles Conservator, took historians Susan Marsden and Sandra Kearney through the correct way to store a family treasure. In this instance, a lace tablecloth from 1899, using acid-free paper and an acid-free box. Both items are available from places such ...as Archive Survival. MSzF YouTube link: https://youtu.be/AuyWsi4tfRw Check out Artlab's website for more information on their Consultative Day Check out Archive Survival's website for further information on equipment.

04.01.2022 (Posted 29 October 2020) The Marsden Szwarcbord Foundation is deeply pleased to congratulate the Kaurna Nation and the City of Holdfast Bay whose permanent exhibition Tiati Wangkanthi Kumangka (Truth-Telling Together) has won the national award, Australia's most significant museum award, in the Museums and Galleries National Awards for 2020. '...The permanent exhibition, which opened in December 2019, tells the true history of South Australia, opening an honest discussion ab...out South Australia’s colonial past. It examines the words of the Letters Patent, which include recognition of Aboriginal Natives to occupy and live within the lands of the Province of South Australia. For Jack Buckskin, the exhibition is a great way for Aboriginal people, especially Kaurna people, to have our voices heard. Very early on our people had lost their voice, lost the opportunity to share our knowledge, and our culture, so this exhibition is about understanding the history of this country from an Aboriginal perspective, Mr Buckskin said. And it’s this chequered history, according to Kaurna Elder Lynette Crocker, that the next generation needs to hear...' Read more: https://www.holdfast.sa.gov.au//truth-telling-exhibition-w See more

04.01.2022 Remember when we made a start on restoring the old orchard at the Heysen place near Hahndorf (The Cedars)? On Friday 23.10.20, the ‘team’ made a return visit to see how well the trees are doing. #mszfmakehistoryathome6 - House and garden stories

03.01.2022 English/History

03.01.2022 We had a marvellous consultation with historians Dr Susan Marsden and Sandra Kearney from the Marsden Szwarcbord Foundation yesterday. Dr Marsden brought in two... family heirlooms, an intricate lace supper tablecloth and scrapbook. Kristin Phillips, Principal Conservator Textiles and Mary-Anne Gooden, Textiles Conservator offered their conservation advice. Susan and Sandra filmed the consultation for their wonderful series Marsden Szwarcbord Foundation Make History At Home on You Tube: https://youtu.be/X00QmZSaW98 https://youtu.be/6URgWFuXWN8 https://youtu.be/AuyWsi4tfRw To learn more about Artlab’s Consultation Day service, please visit https://www.artlabaustralia.com.au/advice. Marsden Szwarcbord Foundation Artlab Australia #MarsdenSzwarcbordFoundationMakeHistoryAtHome #MakeHistoryAtHome Kristin Phillips #MaryAnneGooden #textilesconservation #lacetablecloth #artlabconsultationday