History Talks - HCNSW Podcasts

The Annual History Lecture is an event produced & presented by the History Council of New South Wales every year, which aims to engage and educate the community about the vitality, diversity and meaning of history and its practice through the eyes of historians and others prominent in public history. In 2023, the Annual History Lecture was be presented by Thomas Mayo, Uluru Statement from the...

Winners of the 2022 NSW Premier’s History Awards gather to reveal how they make history, their inspirations, and the impact they hope their work will have. Despite distinct subjects, mediums and methods, these winners are united in their histories telling Australian communities and cultures have been shaped by colonisation. Following their presentations, there will be an opportunity for the audien...

In this fascinating talk, Professor Bruce Pascoe interrogates the idea of Australian history pre-contact. Mary McLean from the Orange Aboriginal Land Council gives the Welcome to Country while Professor Stephen Gapps provides introductions. This event was recorded in Orange, Wiradjuri Country on the 28th October for the History Council of NSW's Annual History Lecture series.  Send us Fan Mail...

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Sydney Writers' Festival and the History Council of NSW present this panel discussion where three winners of the 2021 NSW Premier's History Awards - Laurence Billiet, Matthew Colloff and Luke Keogh, gather in person to reveal how they make history, their inspirations and the impact they hope their work will have.  Hosted by Dr Matthew Allen, HCNSW Councillor, this event includes a short...

Sydney Writers' Festival and the History Council of NSW present this panel discussion where three winners of the 2021 NSW Premier's History Awards - Laurence Billiet, Matthew Colloff and Luke Keogh, gather in person to reveal how they make history, their inspirations and the impact they hope their work will have.  Hosted by Dr Matthew Allen, HCNSW Councillor, this event includes a short...

Sydney Writers' Festival and the History Council of NSW present this panel discussion where three winners of the 2021 NSW Premier's History Awards - Laurence Billiet, Matthew Colloff and Luke Keogh, gather in person to reveal how they make history, their inspirations and the impact they hope their work will have.  Hosted by Dr Matthew Allen, HCNSW Councillor, this event includes a short...

Kiera Lindsey is an award-winning historian based at UTS where she is a Senior Research Fellow conducting an ARC DECRA on speculative biography and historical craft. Callum Clayton-Dixon is an Aboriginal linguist and historian whose people come from the southern end of the New England Tableland, New South Wales, around Walcha, Woolbrook, and the Ingleba Aboriginal Reserve—Ambēyang country. SURVIVI...

James Dunk lives and writes in Wangal country in Sydney’s inner west. He works as a historian at the University of Sydney, where he lectures in Australian history and the history of medicine, and he is a conjoint fellow at the University of Newcastle. His research has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Rethinking History, History Australia, and Health and History and his litera...

Noëlle Janaczewska is a playwright, poet, essayist and the author of The Book of Thistles (UWA Publishing)—part environmental history, part poetry, part unconventional memoir. She is the recipient of multiple awards, fellowships and residencies, including the 2020 NSW Premier’s Digital History Prize, a Queensland Premier’s Literary Award, the Griffin Award, ten AWGIE (Australian Writers’ Guild Ind...

Born in a French military family, Pierre-Jacques Ober broke with family traditions by preferring philosophy to war. In the last 25 years, he has thrown himself into numerous adventures as an independent filmmaker. Working in partnership with photographer Jules Ober, he now focuses on the creation of books using a unique story-telling device – photographs of figurines in miniature sets. THE GOOD SO...

Kate Fullagar is a Professor of History at the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, Australian Catholic University. She is also an honorary professor of history at Macquarie University and currently co-editor of the Australian Historical Association’s journal, History Australia. Kate specializes in the history of the eighteenth-century world, particularly the British Empire and the many i...

DR KIERA LINDSEY CONDUCTS A Q&A WITH NOËLLE JANACZEWSKA, DR JAMES DUNK, PROFESSOR KATE FULLAGAR, CALLUM CLAYTON-DIXON AND PIERRE-JACQUES OBER. Send us Fan Mail Support the show History Talks Podcasts are brought to you by the History Council of NSW. Follow us @historycouncilnsw

Is there such a thing as a career in history? The world of the past is broken down into numerous fields, from archivists, librarians and curators to archaeologists, historians and heritage consultants. Join Dr Kiera Lindsey as she hosts a session with early-career historians, Alinde Bierhuizen, Social History Curator at Fairfield City Museum & Gallery. Dr Lindsey asks the question: what was th...

Is there such a thing as a career in history? The world of the past is broken down into numerous fields, from archivists, librarians and curators to archaeologists, historians and heritage consultants. Join Dr Kiera Lindsey as she hosts Part 2 of a Careers in History session with early-career historian, Bonnie Wildie, Archivist in Engagement and Access Services at NSW State Archives. Dr Lindsey as...

Australia’s colonial history is largely told from the settler perspective, centred around the arrival of James Cook and the Endeavour almost 250 years ago. But one chapter of our shared history tells of a number of Aboriginal Australians making their way to Britain, from the late 18th century through to the 21st century. “Counter currents: Aboriginal men and women at the Heart of Empire” presented...

The impulse to memorialise people and events has led to the establishment of a range of monuments in urban landscapes. Increasingly, monuments have been verbally or physically attacked and, in some cases, removed. This masterclass focuses on the ongoing histories of monuments, testing the implications of preservation and removal, and how memorials can be revived, reinterpreted or replaced. The thr...

The impulse to memorialise people and events has led to the establishment of a range of monuments in urban landscapes. Increasingly, monuments have been verbally or physically attacked and, in some cases, removed. This masterclass will focus on the ongoing histories of monuments, testing the implications of preservation and removal, and how memorials can be revived, reinterpreted or replaced. The...

The impulse to memorialise people and events has led to the establishment of a range of monuments in urban landscapes. Increasingly, monuments have been verbally or physically attacked and, in some cases, removed. This masterclass will focus on the ongoing histories of monuments, testing the implications of preservation and removal, and how memorials can be revived, reinterpreted or replaced. The...

On 4 September 2018, Dr Lisa Murray (City Historian, City of Sydney) delivered the History Council of NSW’s Annual History Lecture as part of History Week . Cemeteries preserve our history and form part of our national heritage. But to truly understand the Australian way of death we must consider the social and economic history of funeral practices.  This was recorded by the ABC’s Big Ideas progra...

The impulse to memorialise people and events has led to the establishment of a range of monuments in urban landscapes. Increasingly, monuments have been verbally or physically attacked and, in some cases, removed. This masterclass will focus on the ongoing histories of monuments, testing the implications of preservation and removal, and how memorials can be revived, reinterpreted or replaced. The...

Professor Christina Twomey speaks about the research process of writing her most recent book, The Battle Within: POWs in Postwar Australia won the Australian History Prize at 2018 NSW Premiers Awards. Christina Twomey is a Professor of History at Monash University. She is the author of four books, including Australia’s Forgotten Prisoners: Civilians Interned by the Japanese in World War Two and A...

Dr Paul Irish speaks about his 2017 book Hidden In Plain View: The Aboriginal People of Coastal Sydney (NewSouth Publishing), which won the NSW Premier’s History Award for Community and Regional History in 2018. Dr Irish is a historian and archaeologist and director of Coast History & Heritage. For over ten years he has been piecing together the Aboriginal history of coastal Sydney with resear...

Associate Professor Sean Scalmer speaks about his book, On the Stump: Campaign Oratory and Democracy in the United States, Britain and Australia for which he won the NSW Premiers History Awards General History Prize in 2018. Sean Scalmer is an Associate Professor with the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne is the author and editor of several books on the...

In this episode, Caroline Butler-Bowdon conducts a Q&A with Sean Scalmer, Christina Twomey and Paul Irish about their research and writing processes and challenges.  The audience is then invited to ask questions as well. Send us Fan Mail Support the show History Talks Podcasts are brought to you by the History Council of NSW. Follow us @historycouncilnsw