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Giving the past a future now! We run the National Motor Museum, Migration Museum, Maritime Museum & History Fest. Tweets mostly by Catherine & Pauline.
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Free event! The Dame Roma Mitchell Oration - 'Climate Change and Human Rights: Australia’s Next Big Challenge' is on 2 November 2023. Orator: Hon Dr Susan Close MP. Presented in partnership with Uni Adelaide and Law Society SA. Tickets: history.sa.gov.au/events/dam…
Jennifer Cashmore Oration 2023. From Asylums to Community Care and Beyond - Human Rights and Mental Health: Lessons from History. Read more about the oration: ow.ly/uCXT50PuvYJ
Five of South Australia’s esteemed historians, curators and academics will discuss the nuances of collecting in contexts both personal and for museums. Let us ponder the question “why, how and what do we collect?” More info: ow.ly/YOmx50OwbCA
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Full house at The Wheaty for @HistorySA session on “drinking in history”
CREATIVE HISTORIES: A panel of SA visual artists will discuss the place of historical fiction in interpreting Museum artefacts and the use of the imagination as a pragmatic superpower. This Thursday night. FREE tickets: ow.ly/ygWo50OhSl9
#HistoryTrustSA #HistoryFestival
This fascinating exhibition is on during South Australia’s History Festival for the month of May. Get along - you won’t regret it! And shout out to the wonderful @AntiqueJC and @UniversitySA for brining this story alive from the archives #SAHistoryFest #HistoryTrustSA
The new Gone Shopping exhibition captures the way we were. It is on during the May #SAHistoryFest at the @UniversitySA City West campus. Via @IndailyArts.
On #KaurnaCountry.
indaily.co/419482 via @indaily
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Celebrating Arabic hospitality @HistorySA Migration museum … invoked many childhood memories, flavours, smells and sounds … very similar to the Greek stuff I grew up with
Thanks @ramanvoranau glad you could join us! We had such fun discussing all things history including AI, non-linear time and museums last night.
Such a fabulous @HistorySA event. From machines (not) writing history to why we trust a museum. Thank you @Marnie_HW @annahopeclark @KristyKokegei and @LindseyKiera
Tomorrow for one night only - 4 fabulous historians on stage! World acclaimed historian @Marnie_HW , award winning @annahopeclark and our very own Head of Audience & Experience @KristyKokegei and SA's History Advocate @LindseyKiera
Tickets still available eventbrite.com.au/e/history-…
and shout out to @UniversitySA and @AusPublicHist for lending us Marnie and Anna for the evening. #HistoryMatters
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Don Dunstan's pink shorts a symbol of challenging the status quo ❤️ @SonyaFeldhoff @HistorySA
abc.net.au/adelaide/programs…
2023 Sir Hubert Wilkins Oration.
Join us on 13 April as Dr Emma McEwin delves into 2 remarkable Australian polar explorers, Wilkins & Sir Douglas Mawson - their lives & enduring legacies
Freemasons Hall, Adelaide, 7pm.
Tickets $20/$10
ow.ly/vetA50NqNQZ
@SLSA @SAMuseum
INTRODUCING SOUTH AUSTRALIA'S NEW HISTORY ADVOCATE, DR KIERA LINDSEY! 👏
Read all about Dr Kiera Lindsey's outstanding career here: history.sa.gov.au/history-ad…
HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II, 1926 - 2022
Trustees, team members & volunteers at the History Trust of South Australia join in expressing sincere condolences to the Royal Family at the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
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Happy Wattle Day from Adelaide’s Australian Heritage listed Park Lands on Kaurna Country.
The first celebration of Wattle Day was held on 1 September 1910 in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide. It has a lot offer as the inclusive Australia Day.
aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/… – at Adelaide, South Australia
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We are proud to share with you the launch of the Overland Telegraph Line: A transcultural history website. Developed as a joint project between: @ACUmedia @HistorySA @SAMuseum @statelibrarysa
otlhistory.sa.gov.au/
#OverlandTelegraphLine #OTL #slsa #libraries #SouthAustralia
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Front page news. Early finds from an archaeological dig at the former brewery site on Colonel light’s 1839 ‘Theberton Cottage’shows foundations of the house and dairy plus a well and Mediterranean garden. Worth a read in @theTiser.
On #KaurnaCountry.
adelaidenow.com.au/lifestyle… – at Adelaide, South Australia
Here at the History Trust we're thinking about digital culture, pop culture and creative representations of South Australia.
What are your favourite memes, videos, games or other creative phenomena that is uniquely South Australian?
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Here at the History Trust we're thinking about iconic objects and things.
You have already shared with us your South Australian stories, memories, characters and events.
What things (iconic or everyday) represent your South Australian story?
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