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Camden Historical Society’s Strategic Plan Draft Unveiled

The Camden Historical Society is developing a strategic plan for 2025-2030, focusing on governance, programming, and collection management at the Camden Museum. With 113 members and 50 active volunteers contributing significantly to local heritage, the society aims to enhance the community's knowledge and appreciation of Camden's history.

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Camden History Journal Features Woman of the Year

New edition of Camden History journal Immerse yourself in interesting and exciting local stories. These gripping stories can be found in the latest edition of Camden History. The vivacious Frances, Camden's 2025 Woman of the Year, graces the front cover. Camden Museum#camdenhistory#camdenwoman#franceswarner Make sure you get your copy for sale at the Camden Museum. Contents

Active citizenship · Adaptive Re-use · Agency · Artefacts · Attachment to place · Belonging · Camden · Camden Historical Society · Camden Museum · Camden Story · Collective Memory · Community Engagement · Community organisations · Community work · Cultural Heritage · Festivals · GLAM Sector · Heritage · History · Living History · Local History · Local newspapers · Local Studies · Memorial · Memorials · Memory · Monuments · Newspapers · Not-for-profit · Place making · Sense of place · Storytelling · Uncategorized · Unlock Camden · Volunteering · Volunteerism

Voluntary labour worth thousands of dollars to the Camden Museum

Small museums contribute a considerable amount of value to the economy through unpaid voluntary labour. According to the latest research, the value of unpaid voluntary labour to the Camden Museum is worth around A$580,000 a year. The Camden Museum and the Camden Historical Society are completely run by volunteers. They are some of many voluntary community organisations in the local area.

1920s · 1930s · 1973 New Cities Campbelltown Camden Appin Structure Plan · 20th century · Agriculture history · Attachment to place · Belonging · Camden Council · Camden Council Heritage Advisory Committee · Camden Mayor · Camden Museum · Camden Produce Market · Camden Story · Camden Town Centre · Camden Town Farm · Colonialism · Commemoration · Country town · Cowpastures · Cultural and Heritage Tourism · Cultural Heritage · Entertainment · Festivals · Food · Heritage · History · Interwar · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · Macarthur · Memorialisation · Place making · Ruralism · Sense of place · Social History · Storytelling · Symbolism · Tourism · Unlock Camden · Urban history

Unlock Camden 2023, a festival celebrating our past

Unlock Camden is a history festival that celebrates the Camden story through walks, art, images, stories, and a host of other activities. Events are centred in historic the John Street precinct around the Alan Baker Art Gallery Macaria.

Artefacts · Belonging · Camden · Camden District · Camden Historical Society · Camden Story · Collective Memory · Community identity · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · Historical consciousness · Historical thinking · History · Local History · Local Studies · Memorialisation · Memorials · Monuments · Place making · Storytelling · Uncategorized

Camden Historical Society, 60 years of local history, 1957-2017

In 2017 the Camden Historical Society celebrated its 60th anniversary. Founded in 1957 the aim of the society has been to tell the Camden story and the local identities and events that are part of it.

Aesthetics · Art · Attachment to place · Belonging · Camden · Colonial Camden · Colonial frontier · Colonialism · Community identity · Cowpastures · Cultural Heritage · Cultural icon · England · Farming · Floods · Frontier violence · Georgian · Gothic · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · History · Landscape aesthetics · Living History · Local History · Local Studies · Macarthur · Memory · Myths · Place making · Ruralism · Sense of place · Settler colonialism · Storytelling

Charles Tompson, a colonial diarist of the Cowpastures

A colonial diarist of the Cowpastures, Charles Tompson.