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Talking History
by History Trust of South Australia
Talking History is a series of free monthly lectures hosted by the History Trust of South Australia. Each month you can hear about a different aspect of South Australia's history. We have a range of speakers from various disciplines, from history and archaeology to architecture and community research.Inspiring generations in the present through creative engagement with the past. The History Trust researches, preserves and presents the history of South Australia. We manage three museums, the State History Collection and a statewide community history program.
Episodes
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Letters Between Hans and Nora Heysen - Talking History Summer Series
This free public lecture was part of the History Trust of South Australia's Talking History series. Hans Heysen and Nora Heysen are Australia's most well-known father-daughter artistic duo. In this episode, Professor Speck explores the letters written to each other from the time Nora moved to...
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Elephants and Egotists - Talking History Summer Series
Warning: This episode contains graphic depictions of animal cruelty. This free public lecture was part of the History Trust of South Australia's Talking History series. Samorn, the Adelaide Zoo's last elephant, was adored by generations of zoo visitors. When she died, there was an outpouring of...
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Mary Lee - Talking History Summer Series
This free public lecture was part of the History Trust of South Australia's Talking History series. In 1894, South Australia granted women the dual right to vote and become elected members of parliament, thanks in no small part to the indomitable Mary Lee. Her unwavering pursuit for social…
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Holden Heroes - Talking History Summer Series
This public lecture was a part of the History Trust's Talking History series. Holden historian Don Loffler and National Motor Museum senior curator Mick Bolognese discuss some of the most important landmarks in Holden's manufacturing history. In it's golden age Holden sold about one in every two...
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Leviathan - Talking History Summer Series
This free public lecture was part of the History Trust of South Australia's Talking History series. In this episode curator Dr Adam Paterson and archaeologist/ educator Dr Chris Wilson unpack the history of South Australia's whaling industry against the backdrop of the SA Maritime Museum's...
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Hysteria - Talking History Summer Series
This public lecture was a part of the History Trust's Talking History series. Hysteria is both a memoir of author Katerina Bryant's experience of illness and a historical account of four women whose lives have intersected with the idea of 'hysteria'. The book looks at the strength of women who…
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A first person memoir of Adelaide's Radical Decade
In the wake of the Dunstan era Dimity Ware fell in love with a woman, left her husband, and became a single parent, feminist, and radical gardener. Join us for an illuminating conversation with her son, author Ianto Ware, about the personal and political history of feminism, lesbianism, gender,...
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Telling the Stories of the Holocaust
The Adelaide Holocaust Museum and Andrew Steiner Education Centre (AHMSEC) is Adelaide's newest museum, opening in November 2020. The museum has an obligation to preserve Holocaust history and educate current and future generations through programs that instil human rights and develop ethical and...
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Let's Get Physical - Preserving South Australia's sporting history
South Australians have long had a love affair with sport. For over 180 years sporting clubs and associations around the state have provided an outlet for physical activity, a sense of community, and a place to come together. We've excelled in international, national and local arenas, but sport is...
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The Art of Family History
Artists often draw on real events, folk culture and family stories for inspiration, as well as occasionally delving into historical research as part of their craft. In this recording Dr Noris Ioannou and Sera Waters to share their thoughts on the relationship between folk culture, family…
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Holden Heroes - The amazing history of 'Australia's own car'
Holden historian Don Loffler and National Motor Museum senior curator Mick Bolognese discuss some of the most important landmarks in Holden's manufacturing story. In this recording we hear about National Motor Museum's Holden Heroes exhibition, which features the company's most prized heritage...
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Bonus episode: Cultivating native oysters in the Port River
Special History Festival series: A State of Change The History Festival has teamed up with Solstice Podcasting to give you a taste of the 2021 History Festival program. In this special bonus episode, we take a walk with Rae Nunan and Catherine McMahon from the Estuary Care Foundation about the...
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History Festival Podcast ep 5: Willunga's Wicked Way and Walking Nugget's Trail
Special History Festival series: A State of Change The History Festival has teamed up with Solstice Podcasting to give you a five-episode taste of the 2021 History Festival program. This week on the podcast, Paddy O'Toole from the Willunga Branch of the National Trust of South Australia regales…
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Knowing the Past: In Conversation
This talk was recorded live for the opening of South Australia's History Festival in 2021, a special in-conversation event with Dr Jared Thomas and Dr Skye Krichauff as they examine the complexities of Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal understandings of past experiences and how different ways of...
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History Festival Podcast ep 4: celebrating the traditions of the migrant garden and morning smoko at Holowiliena Station
Special History Festival series The History Festival has teamed up with Solstice Podcasting to give you a five-episode taste of the 2021 History Festival program. This week, we wander through gardens that reflect the heritage and lifestyles of first and second-generation European migrants with...
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History Festival Podcast ep 3: Tragic Tales of Watery Misadventure and GMH's History on the Horrocks Highway
Special History Festival series The History Festival has teamed up with Solstice Podcasting to give you a five-episode taste of the 2021 History Festival program. This week, we take a tour through the West Terrace Cemetery and talk of the drownings, capsizes, and shipwrecks that dot SA's…
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History Festival Podcast ep 2: The History of the SA AIDS Quilt and Upper North Adelaide 'Exposed'!
Special History Festival series The History Festival has teamed up with Solstice Podcasting to give you a five-episode taste of the 2021 History Festival program. This week, join Nikki Sullivan from the History Trust of South Australia and Skye Bartlett from SAMESH to hear the tales behind South...
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Down the rabbit hole
Fiction writers often draw on real events and people to inspire their stories. Many writers undertake extensive historical research as part of their craft. A story about the past can be made to come alive with the small details that immerse us in a time before our own. Where does the history stop...
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South Australia's History Festival Podcast: A State of Change
Special History Festival series The History Festival has teamed up with Solstice Podcasting to give you a five-episode taste of the 2021 History Festival program. In episode one, we go behind the scenes at the Between Two Worlds exhibition and learn a little about the Kaurna culture on display…
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Windjammers
Windjammers were enormous steel and iron sailing ships that transported South Australian grain during the final days of commercial sail. Sailing yearly from the Åland Islands, in the Finnish Baltic, Windjammers arrived in the South Australian summer to collect grain. They also collected young…
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Jeanne Barret - The Woman Who Sailed the World
When the first woman to circumnavigate the world completed her journey in 1776, she returned home without any fanfare at all. Jeanne Barret, an impoverished peasant from Burgundy, disguised herself as a man and sailed on the 1766 Bougainville voyage as the naturalist's assistant. For over two...
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What does a First Nations collection look like?
What do you think of when you hear of a First Nations history collection? This presentation by Jacinta Koolmatrie, Curator of First Nations History at the Migration Museum, looks at what First Nations histories are represented in the History Trust's collection. Using her experience and knowledge…
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Hysteria: A Memoir of Illness, Strength & Stories
Hysteria is both a memoir of author Katerina Bryant's experience of illness and a historical account of four women whose lives have intersected with the idea of 'hysteria'. The book looks at the strength of women who were not seen as themselves but as patients alone. Katerina examined the lives…
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Kaurna Environment: Plants, Animals, Seasons, Culture & History
This presentation is a brief introduction to the local environment of the Adelaide Plains from a contemporary Indigenous Kaurna perspective. The presentation will cover indigenous plants, animals and climate and how it is informed by the history of Kaurna language, and culture in the region.
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South Australia's British migrant stories – Elizabeth: a city of tomorrow
Join Migration Museum Curator Birgit Heilmann as she discovers individual stories of British migrants who came to South Australia post Second World War. Oral histories which were undertaken for the 'Hostel Stories Project' by the History Trust of South Australia and The University of Adelaide...
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Death on the Cricket Field
*Warning* viewers may find some of this content distressing. When Phillip Hughes died after being struck by a cricket ball at the Sydney Cricket Ground in November 2014, his death was described as a 'freak accident' and a 'million to one' chance. However, research on Trove shows that nearly 200...
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South Australia's British migrant stories – a mixed bag of memories
Join Migration Museum Curator Birgit Heilmann as she discovers individual stories of British migrants who came to South Australia post Second World War. Oral histories which were undertaken for the 'Hostel Stories Project' by the History Trust of South Australia and The University of Adelaide...
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British Migrants: Instant Australians?
A Talking History Online panel discussion featuring Jim Hammerton (La Trobe University, Melbourne), Moya McFadzean (Museums Victoria), Jan Coolen (featured in the exhibition 'British Migrants: Instant Australians?', and Mandy Paul (Migration Museum). Between 1947 and 1981 nearly 1.5 million…
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South Australia's British migrant stories – return migration
Join Migration Museum Curator Birgit Heilmann as she discovers individual stories of British migrants who came to South Australia post Second World War. Oral histories which were undertaken for the 'Hostel Stories Project' by the History Trust of South Australia and The University of Adelaide...
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Talking History Online: Regenerating South Australia's Heritage Churches
Ian Hamilton from Arcuate presented Talking History Online: Regenerating South Australia's Heritage Churches in July 2020. Adelaide, city of churches, has a wealth of heritage places of worship that Ian Hamilton's architectural practice, Arcuate, is helping to conserve and develop for future...
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Forty Years On: The Transformations of Oral History
Professor Alistair Thomson presented September 2019's Talking History lecture Forty Years On: The Transformations of Oral History Celebrating forty years since the creation of the Oral History Association of Australia in 1979, current President of Oral History Australia Alistair Thomson reflected...
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A 'Digital Magical Mystery Tour' of British Library collections
The History Trust of South Australia in partnership with the North Terrace Cultural Precinct Innovation Lab was pleased to host Mahendra Mahey of British Library Labs for a public talk on digital cultural heritage and the scale, complexity and diversity of digital materials collected and…
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Writing Don Dunstan
Professor Angela Woollacott reflects on the challenges of researching and writing the first comprehensive biography of Don Dunstan. She suggests how much a biography has to offer, such as showing how growing up in racially-stratified colonial Fiji shaped his strong sense of racial justice, and…
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The epic flight that shrank the world
A special talk on the Epic Flight Centenary 2019, celebrating the first flight from England to Australia by South Australian brothers Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith. Experts say that in its day the feat was as awe-inspiring as man landing on the moon. Journey back in time with journalist and writer...
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Mary Lee: In search of a Turbulent Anarchist
In 1894, South Australia granted women the dual right to vote and become elected members of parliament, thanks in no small part to the indomitable Mary Lee. Her unwavering pursuit for social justice and remarkable legacy is revealed as we follow the trajectory of her life from Ireland to…
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The letters between Hans and Nora Heysen
Hans Heysen and Nora Heysen are Australia's most well-known father-daughter artistic duo. Professor Speck explores how this dynamic motivated her interest in the Heysen letters to each other written from the time Nora moved to London in 1934 until Hans Heysen died in 1968. During that time Nora...
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Writing a New History of South Australia
Paul Sendziuk and Robert Foster, the authors of A History of South Australia (Cambridge University Press, 2018) discuss how they approached writing the book. How does one tell an engaging chronological story of South Australia's past – from before European settlement to the present day – in a...
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Greetings From
Dr Nikki Sullivan and Amy Dale presented on 20 November 2018 'Greetings From ...' The Migration Museum exhibition 'Greetings from…' celebrates the power of souvenirs, from the poignant to the marvellously kitsch and eccentric. Souvenirs are often seen as insignificant trinkets, yet they play an...
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Valour and Violets, SA in the Great War
Robert Kearney and Sharon Cleary presented on 9 November 2018 'Valour and Violets, SA in the Great War'. In 2015, the State Government established a unit within Veterans SA to coordinate commemoration of the Anzac Centenary for South Australia. One of the activities that found its way onto the to...
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Stories, Statistics and Sanatoria
Dr Julie Collins & Peter Lekkas presented on 18 September 2018 'Stories, Statistics and Sanatoria'. Pulmonary tuberculosis was described by writer John Bunyan in 1680 as "The Captain of all these men of death". In South Australia tuberculosis mortality peaked in the 1890s and with a growing...
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Tried Tested and True
Liz Harful presented on 21 August 2018 'Tried Tested and True'. Forget celebrity chefs. The books that truly reflect what most Australians cooked and ate at home for more than 100 years were put together by people you have never heard of, all in the name of helping others. Community cookbooks…
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Immersive interactions
Dr Andrew Yip presented on 16 August 2018 'Immersive interactions: a new museology of consciousness in the age of virtual reality' This talk addresses the human and social potentials of immersive, interactive media installations to connect museum visitors to each other and to an expanded…
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Harnessing the River Murray, a Journey of Discovery: Archives and Voices from the Past
Helen Stagg presented on 17 July 2018 'Harnessing the River Murray, a Journey of Discovery: Archives and Voices from the Past'. Helen's talk took a journey through her research for the book, 'Harnessing the River Murray: stories of the people who built Locks 1 to 9, 1915-1935'. Helen shared the...
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Matthew Flinders and his Friends
Dr Gillian Dooley presented on 19 June 2018 'Matthew Flinders and his Friends'. In all the ups and downs of his career, Matthew Flinders always knew he would get nowhere without his friends – and we have a vast amount of evidence from his letters and journals about what friendship meant to him…
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The Future Lies Behind
Why does the past matter? In our fast-paced, future-facing world, what's the value and importance of studying history, and how can we do it better? And what part do our answers to these questions ultimately play in shaping times to come? Dr Stuart Candy presented this public lecture as part of…
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Talking History Presents: Violet Verses
On 29 June 2017 the History Trust held a centenary reading of First World War poetry. Carole Whitelock and Keith Conlon read from 'Violet Verses' 100 years on from its publication. In 1917, as the First World War continued to take its toll around the world, including on the people of South...
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From Venus to Voyager: What Space Junk says about Humans beyond Earth
Dr Alice Gorman presented on 17 April 2018 'From Venus to Voyager: What Space Junk says about Humans beyond Earth'. Starting with the Vanguard 1 satellite, the oldest human object in space and 60 years old this year, Dr Space Junk takes us on an archaeological survey of the solar system which...
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Elephants and Egotists
Patricia Sumerling presented on 28 November 'Elephants and Egotists'. Samorn, the Adelaide Zoo's last elephant, was adored by generations of zoo visitors. A gift from the Thai government in 1956, she was transferred thirty-five years later to Monarto Zoo to live out her days. When she died there…
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Bush Mechanics: The Exhibition
The National Motor Museum of Australia's Senior Curator, Michelangelo Bolognese, presented on 17 October 'Bush Mechanics: The Exhibition.' In this talk Michelangelo explored the history of the content and development of Bush Mechanics: The Exhibition, based on the incredibly popular ABC TV series...
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Bill Edwards, A Remarkable Man; A Remarkable Mission
Dr Sue Anderson presented on 19 September 2017 'Bill Edwards, A Remarkable Man; A Remarkable Mission'. From a humble upbringing in regional Victoria, Bill Edwards found his calling working with Aboriginal people in the far north of South Australia. As a young, newly-ordained minister he was…
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Talking History is a series of free monthly lectures hosted by the History Trust of South Australia. Each month you can hear about a different aspect of South Australia's history. We have a range of speakers from various disciplines, from history and archaeology to architecture and community research.Inspiring generations in the present through creative engagement with the past. The History Trust researches, preserves and presents the history of South Australia. We manage three museums, the State History Collection and a statewide community history program.
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