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Camden Teacher Trainee Camp 1921: Insights into 1920s Teacher Training

In the early 1920s, young women like Lottie Dean participated in teacher training camps in Camden, NSW. The camps provided practical experience in teaching and imposed strict rules on student life. Lottie's story reflects the evolving role of women in education and society at that time.

Attachment to place · Cafes · Campbelltown · Colonialism · Community identity · Farming · Festivals · First World War · Governor Macquarie · Heritage · Historical consciousness · Historical Research · Historical thinking · History · Interwar · Local History · Macarthur · Monuments · Myths · Newspapers · Place making · Second World War · Sense of place · Theatre · War

Jeff McGill’s Pictorial History Campbelltown and District

Local historian and photographer Jeff McGill takes a fresh look at the history of Campbelltown in a new book

20th century · Agricultural heritage · Agriculture · Agriculture history · Camden · Camden Story · Cawdor · Collective Memory · Cowpastures · Cultural Heritage · Farming · Floods · Harold Perkins Photographer · Historical Research · Historical source · Local History · Local Studies · Memory · Photographs · Photography · Placemaking · Storytelling

The Perkins family album of Cawdor

Photographs tell a story about the local area and represent a moment frozen in time. The Perkins family donated a family photograph album to the Camden Historical Society and it tells the story of the Cawdor area..