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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

Living History at Belgenny
Aesthetics · Agricultural heritage · Agriculture · Attachment to place · Belgenny Farm · Colonialism · Community identity · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Dairying · Economy · Education · Entertainment · Farming · Festivals · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical thinking · History · History of a house · House history · Howell Living History Farm · Industrial Heritage · Landscape · Lifestyle · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · Memory · Place making · Re-enactments · Ruralism · Schools · Sense of place · Storytelling · Tourism · Traditional Trades · USA · Volunteering · Volunteerism

Living History at Belgenny

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An informative talk was given on Howell Living History Farm USA recently at Belgenny Farm Camden NSW

Yaralla Estate, a hidden Sydney gem
Aesthetics · Architecture · Art · Attachment to place · Colonialism · Community identity · Concord NSW · Convalescent Home · Convalescent hospital · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Curtilage · Dairying · Edwardian · Entertainment · Farming · Festivals · Heritage · History · History of a house · House history · Interwar · Landscape · Landscape aesthetics · Leisure · Local History · Medical history · Modernism · Place making · Red Cross · Sense of place · Storytelling · Urban history · Volunteering · War · War at home · Yaralla Estate, Concord

Yaralla Estate, a hidden Sydney gem

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A hidden Sydney gem: Yarralla Estate at Concord NSW which was the home of Dame Eadith Walker in the early 20th century.

GLAM, trusted sources and the local museum
Aesthetics · Attachment to place · Camden · Camden Museum · Colonial Camden · Colonialism · Cowpastures · Entertainment · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · History · Leisure · Local History · Macarthur · Place making · Sense of place · Settler colonialism · Tourism · Trust

GLAM, trusted sources and the local museum

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Trusted sources in the GLAM sector and the local museum

A country show comes to town
Agricultural heritage · Agriculture · Attachment to place · Camden · Camden Show · Camden Showgirl · Camden Story · Colonial Camden · Community identity · Cultural Heritage · Education · Entertainment · Farming · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical thinking · History · Lifestyle · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · Memory · Miss Showgirl · Modernism · Myths · Place making · Ruralism · Sense of place · Showgirl competition · Storytelling · Tourism · Transport · Volunteering · Young Woman Competition

A country show comes to town

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The 2018 Camden Show is the 132nd event of this festival celebrating local rural life. In 2019 over 40,000 attended the annual festival.

Alan Baker Art Gallery opening at Macaria, a brush of class
Architecture · Art · Attachment to place · Belonging · Camden · Camden Art Group · Colonial Camden · Community identity · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Entertainment · Gender · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · History of a house · House history · Interwar · Landscape · Landscape aesthetics · Lifestyle · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · Macaria · Macarthur · Memory · Modernism · Place making · Public art · Sense of place · Tourism · Victorian · Women's history

Alan Baker Art Gallery opening at Macaria, a brush of class

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The 2018 opening of the Alan Baker Art Collection in the colonial gentleman's townshouse of Macaria in Camden's John Street heritage precinct.

Oran Park Raceway: the finishing line as new horizons open up
Architecture · Attachment to place · Belonging · Built heritag · Collective Memory · Colonialism · Cowpastures · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Entertainment · Ghosts · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · House history · Housing · Industrial Heritage · Interwar · Land releases · Landscape · Landscape aesthetics · Legends · Leisure · Lifestyle · Living History · Local History · Local newspapers · Local Studies · Lost Sydney · Macarthur · Memorials · Memory · Motoring History · Myths · Newspapers · Oran Park · Oran Park Raceway · Place making · Placemaking · Recreation · Ruralism · Sense of place · Settler colonialism · Stereotypes · Storytelling · Technology · Theme Parks · transport history · Urban development · Urban growth · Urban history · Urban Planning · urban sprawl · Urbanism

Oran Park Raceway: the finishing line as new horizons open up

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Oran Park is a new suburb on Sydney's urban fringe on the site of the former Oran Park Raceway.

Goulburn Evening Penny Post and its Art-Deco newspaper office and printery
1920s · 1930s · Architecture · Art · Attachment to place · Business · Business History · Collective Memory · Communications · Community identity · Cultural Heritage · Entertainment · Fashion · Goulburn · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · Interwar · Local History · Local newspapers · Local Studies · Media History · Memory · Modernism · Newspapers · Place making · Placemaking · Sense of place · Storytelling · Tourism · Urban history · Victorian

Goulburn Evening Penny Post and its Art-Deco newspaper office and printery

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In 1935 a moderne Art-Deco style office was opened for the Goulburn Evening Penny Post

Australia Day 2018 in Camden
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Australia Day 2018 in Camden

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Australia Day 2018 in Camden drew large crowds to the town centre for the festival for the street parade.