Category: Place making

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

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.

Macquarie Place: an overlooked city space of monumental importance
Aesthetics · Architecture · Attachment to place · Belonging · British colonialism · Collective Memory · Colonialism · Community identity · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · England · Governor Macquarie · Highways · History · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · Memorialisation · Memorials · Memory · Mileposts · Monuments · Parks · Place making · Settler colonialism · Settler Society · Storytelling · Sydney · Urban development · Urban history · Wayfinding

Macquarie Place: an overlooked city space of monumental importance

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Macquarie Place is Sydney's oldest public square, established by Governor Macquarie over 200 years ago. Once a colonial elite space, it has transformed alongside the city into a hub for modern finance. The park features monuments and relics, symbolizing its historical significance and ongoing evolution amid urban change.

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