Category: Campbelltown

Exploring Campbelltown’s Mid-Century Modern Administration Building
1968 Sydney Region Outline Plan · 1973 New Cities Campbelltown Camden Appin Structure Plan · Aesthetics · Architecture · Attachment to place · Business · Campbelltown · Campbelltown Council · Campbelltown Mid-century modernism · Campbelltown Modern · Campbelltown Modernism · Campbelltown Municipal Council · Community building · Community identity · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Design · Economy · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · Macarthur · Macarthur region · Mid-century modernism · Modernism · Place making · Placemaking · Sense of place · Storytelling · Urban development · Urban growth · Urban history · Urban Planning · urban sprawl · Urbanism

Exploring Campbelltown’s Mid-Century Modern Administration Building

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The Campbelltown Council office building, completed in 1964, serves as an unrecognized icon of mid-century modernism, symbolizing the town's optimistic vision as a satellite city. Despite its structural significance and initial hopes for community development, later planning challenges undermined this vision, leaving the building's legacy complex and often overlooked.

Fiona’s story, growing up in Airds
1973 New Cities Campbelltown Camden Appin Structure Plan · Airds · Attachment to place · Belonging · Campbelltown · Community identity · Cultural Heritage · Education · Families · Family history · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · Lifestyle · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · Macarthur · Malls · Memory · Place making · Radical history · Sense of place · Storytelling · Women's history · Women's Writing

Fiona’s story, growing up in Airds

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Fiona's story is a moving personal account of hope growing up in the suburb of Airds on Sydney's fringe. It is an inspiring story of resilience and strength over hardship and adversity.

Australian Newspaper History Group Newsletter Extracts by Ian Willis
Attachment to place · Camden · Camden Show · Campbelltown · Communications · Community identity · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Entertainment · Fashion · Festivals · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · Living History · Local History · Local newspapers · Macarthur · Narellan · Newspapers · Place making · Ruralism · Sense of place · War

Australian Newspaper History Group Newsletter Extracts by Ian Willis

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Extracts from the Australian Newspaper History Group by Ian Willis about Macarthur region local newspapers in New South Wales

WSU Sculpture Award and Exhibition Campbelltown
Aesthetics · Architecture · Art · Artists · Attachment to place · Belonging · Campbelltown · Community identity · Community work · Craft · Cultural Heritage · Design · Education · Entertainment · Fashion · Heritage · Landscape · Landscape aesthetics · Leisure · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · localism · Macarthur · Monuments · Moveable Heritage · Parks · Place making · Placemaking · Public art · Sculpture · Sense of place · Storytelling · Symbolism · Tourism · Urbanism · Western Sydney University · WSU Campbelltown

WSU Sculpture Award and Exhibition Campbelltown

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The Lakes at WSU is an inspiring setting for the 8th WSU Sculpture Award and Exhibition 2018

History in Hidden Harmony
Art · Campbelltown · Community identity · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · Landscape aesthetics · Local History · Place making · Sense of place

History in Hidden Harmony

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History and art intersect at an artist retreat in Hidden Harmony

A local newspaper view of the world in an international context
Anzac · Attachment to place · Camden · Campbelltown · Communications · Community identity · First World War · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · History · Local History · Local newspapers · Modernism · Newspapers · Picton · Place making · Sense of place · War

A local newspaper view of the world in an international context

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Provincial newspapers were an archive of local events and set them in the context of the international nature of the First World War

Jeff McGill’s Pictorial History Campbelltown and District
Attachment to place · Cafes · Campbelltown · Colonialism · Community identity · Farming · Festivals · First World War · Governor Macquarie · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · Interwar · Local History · Macarthur · Monuments · Myths · Newspapers · Place making · Second World War · Sense of place · Theatre · War

Jeff McGill’s Pictorial History Campbelltown and District

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Local historian and photographer Jeff McGill takes a fresh look at the history of Campbelltown in a new book

The history of the local newspaper in the Macarthur region
Camden · Campbelltown · Communications · Community identity · History · Interwar · Local History · Macarthur · Newspapers · Picton · Settler colonialism · Sydney's rural-urban fringe · War

The history of the local newspaper in the Macarthur region

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The local newspapers of the Macarthur region have a very interesting history.

2017 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award
Art · Attachment to place · Campbelltown · Campbelltown Art Centre · Colonialism · Convicts · Cowpastures · Entertainment · Heritage · Leisure · Local History · Macarthur · Myths · Sense of place · Tourism

2017 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award

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The Fishers Ghost Art Award has been an important cultural event in Campbelltown for over 50 years.

Macarthur regional identity
Camden · Campbelltown · Colonialism · Community identity · Historical consciousness · History · Local History · Macarthur · Newspapers · Picton · Place making · Sense of place

Macarthur regional identity

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The Macarthur region is an area made of the Camden, Campbelltown and Wollondilly Local Government areas and is a formal region with an arbitrary political boundary. Regions come in all shapes and sizes from formal regions with definite boundaries, to geographic regions based on    landform types, to regions of the imagination with no real boundaries… Continue reading Macarthur regional identity