Category: Local History

The Cowpastures, GLAM and schools
Aesthetics · Art · Attachment to place · British colonialism · Camden · Camden Museum · Colonial Camden · Colonialism · Community identity · Cowpastures · Edwardian · England · Farming · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · Interwar · Landscape aesthetics · Local History · Macarthur · Modernism · Monuments · NSW History K-10 Syllabus · Place making · Ruralism · Schools · Sense of place · Settler colonialism · Tourism · Urbanism · Victorian

The Cowpastures, GLAM and schools

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Schools visits are part of the activities of organisations in the GLAM sector in the Macarthur region.

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

Sheer Fantasy Experience
Aesthetics · Art · Campbelltown Art Centre · Community identity · Festivals · Historical consciousness · Historical thinking · Leisure · Local History · Macarthur · Modernism · Place making · Sense of place · Sydney · Tourism

Sheer Fantasy Experience

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Sheer Fantasy Experience is an innovating and challenging art exhibition.

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.