Category: Historical consciousness

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.

A new regional newspaper, a review
Attachment to place · Camden · Communications · Community identity · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · Local History · Local newspapers · Newspapers · Place making · Sense of place

A new regional newspaper, a review

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A new regional newspaper, a review

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 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

Mummel and a Cowpastures Oligarch
Attachment to place · British colonialism · Colonialism · Cowpastures · Farming · Goulburn · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · Local History · Place making · Sense of place · Settler colonialism · Victorian

Mummel and a Cowpastures Oligarch

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Mummel NSW is an important land grant at Goulburn Plains in colonial NSW and a part of the story of a settler society.

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