Category: Heritage

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

Address to Camden Council supporting a motion for a heritage protection sub-committee
Architecture · Attachment to place · Camden · Camden Council · Community identity · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · Local History · Memorials · Monuments · Place making · Ruralism · Sense of place · Sydney's rural-urban fringe · Tourism · Town planning · Urban growth · Urban Planning · Victorian

Address to Camden Council supporting a motion for a heritage protection sub-committee

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Address to Camden Council supporting a motion for a heritage protection sub-committee

The Illawarra Mercury, a short history
Attachment to place · Colonialism · Communications · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · Local History · Local newspapers · Local Studies · Media · Media History · Newspaper history · Newspapers · Place making · Provincial newspapers · Sense of place · The Illawarra Mercury · Wollongong

The Illawarra Mercury, a short history

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A short history The Illawarra Mercury a major provincial daily newspaper

Camden Produce Market and Camden Community Garden, sites of community engagement
Agricultural heritage · Agriculture · Agriculture history · Attachment to place · Belonging · Camden · Camden Community Garden · Camden Produce Market · Camden Story · Camden Town Farm · Community Engagement · Community Health · Community identity · Community organisations · Community work · Dairying · Farming · Floods · Gardening · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · Honey · Horticulture · Lifestyle · Living History · Local History · Macarthur · Place making · Placemaking · Produce · Retailing · Ruralism · Sense of place · Sydney's rural-urban fringe · Urban Planning · Volunteering · Volunteerism

Camden Produce Market and Camden Community Garden, sites of community engagement

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The Camden Produce Market and the Camden Community Garden are active sites of community engagement on land gifted to the Camden community by Llewella Davies.

The Cowpastures Project
Attachment to place · British colonialism · Colonial Camden · Colonialism · Community identity · Convicts · Cowpastures · Elderslie · England · Farming · Governor Macquarie · Heritage · Historical consciousness · History · Landscape aesthetics · Local History · Place making · Sense of place · Settler colonialism · Victorian

The Cowpastures Project

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The Cowpastures was one of the earliest sites of European settlement in Australia

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.

A field of flowers and steam at a festival of living history
Architecture · Attachment to place · Community identity · Farming · Festivals · Goulburn · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · Local History · Modernism · Place making · Sense of place · Settler colonialism · Technology · Victorian

A field of flowers and steam at a festival of living history

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Historic Goulburn has a number of important heritage sites including the Waterworks Pumphouse and Riversdale homestead

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.

Missing wartime photographs re-appear at Menangle
Anzac · Attachment to place · Community identity · First World War · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · Local History · Memorials · Menangle · Monuments · Sense of place · Volunteering · War

Missing wartime photographs re-appear at Menangle

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Missing wartime photographs re-appear at Menangle