Talking History

History Trust of South Australia

Talking History is a series of free monthly lectures hosted by the History Trust of South Australia. Each month you can hear about a different aspect of South Australia's history. We have a range of speakers from various disciplines, from history and archaeology to architecture and community research. Inspiring generations in the present through creative engagement with the past. The History Trust researches, preserves and presents the history of South Australia. We manage three museums, the State History Collection and a statewide community history program.

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Holden Heroes - Talking History Summer Series

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01/24/22 • 20 min

This public lecture was a part of the History Trust's Talking History series.

Holden historian Don Loffler and National Motor Museum senior curator Mick Bolognese discuss some of the most important landmarks in Holden’s manufacturing history. In it's golden age Holden sold about one in every two new cars in Australia, so it’s no wonder that most Australians have some connection with Holden cars, and that the retirement of the brand was so deeply felt around the country. Discover (or remember!) some of Holden’s best known vehicles and rarely seen prototypes.

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Artist: E's Jammy Jams | Track: Darktown Strutters Ball

Artist: Patrick Patrikios | Track: Just Dance

Artist: Futuremono | Track: New Horizons

Artist: Chris Haugen | Track: Pedal to the Metal

Letters Between Hans and Nora Heysen - Talking History Summer Series

Talking History

02/13/22 • 24 min

This free public lecture was part of the History Trust of South Australia's Talking History series.

Hans Heysen and Nora Heysen are Australia’s most well-known father-daughter artistic duo. In this episode, Professor Speck explores the letters written to each other from the time Nora moved to London in 1934 until Hans Heysen died in 1968. During that time Nora Heysen won the Archibald Prize, was appointed an official war artist, fell in love with a married man, Robert Black, with whom she lived with and eventually married, relocated to Sydney, and travelled extensively to the Pacific. Hans Heysen was knighted, sat on the board of the National Art Gallery of South Australia and was connected to leading figures in the Australian art world. The letters take readers into these events, life at The Cedars, Sallie Heysen’s role there, and the art itself.

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Parting of the Ways - Part 2 by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4196-parting-of-the-ways---part-2

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No. 9 Esther’s Waltz by Esther Abrahmi

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbGJgzJS3Ws

Vision of Persistence by Kevin MacLeod

Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4592-vision-of-persistence

License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

Elephants and Egotists - Talking History Summer Series

Talking History

02/06/22 • 20 min

Warning: This episode contains graphic depictions of animal cruelty.

This free public lecture was part of the History Trust of South Australia's Talking History series.

Samorn, the Adelaide Zoo's last elephant, was adored by generations of zoo visitors. When she died, there was an outpouring of sadness from all who knew or grew up with her.

Elephants and Egotists is a tribute to Samorn, but also tells of other elephants sent to South Australia and the colourful characters who decided their fate. Elephants, particularly those in Southeast Asia, are now a critically endangered species needing our concern and immediate action. As Sir David Attenborough asks: 'The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?'

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Artist: Godmode | Track: Melancholia

Artist: Kevin MacLeod (https://filmmusic.io/)

Track: Circus Waltz

Track: Wind Of The Rainforest Preview

Track: Melodie Victoria

Track: Sneaky Snitch

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Amy Dale: Physical + Digital: Augmenting the museum visitor experience

Talking History

10/26/15 • 23 min

Amy Dale speaks at the State History Conference 2015, about augmenting the museum visitor experience with digital experience.

Louise Bird: Food gardening in South Australia: Snippets from Losing the Plot

Talking History

09/16/15 • 55 min

Louise Bird: Food gardening in South Australia: Snippets from Losing the Plot by History Trust of South Australia

Dr Skye Krichauff: A boomerang, apricot pies, a pocketful of porridge and other stories

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08/22/17 • 57 min

George Wauchope Cameron arrived in the Wirrabara district in the 1850s. For over fifty years Aboriginal people – the Nukunu – regularly camped on ‘Doughboy Creek’, the land purchased by Cameron in the 1870s. In this paper Dr Krichauff draws on stories of Aboriginal-settler interaction told to her by six of Cameron’s descendants during site visits and interviews. Dr Krichauff shows, by recognising the importance of place – and continuity of people in place – and the degree to which lived experiences (of past and present generations) determine what is remembered, we are better able to analyse and, ultimately, understand, the absence of Aboriginal people in the historical consciousness of mid-northern South Australian settler descendants. Skye Krichauff is a historian and anthropologist who is interested in historical cross-cultural relations and understanding the enduring legacies of colonialism. Her doctoral thesis (conferred in 2015) was a place-centred ethnography which investigated the absence of Aboriginal people in the historical consciousness of settler descendants. Skye has previously worked on an international project 'Social Memory, Historical Injustice', as a history researcher for an Aboriginal community organisation and on various research projects including the compilation of a register of SA and NT Aboriginal‒settler conflict. Nharangga wargunni buggi-buggilu, a rewritten version of Skye’s Masters thesis, was published by Wakefield Press in 2011. Her rewritten doctoral thesis will be published by Anthem Press in early 2017. Recorded on 13 September 2016

Dr Jude Elton: Comrades or competition? Aboriginal workers and unions

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08/14/15 • 62 min

Jude Elton explores the very different approaches taken by trade unions in the South Australian and Northern Territory pastoral industries to the union membership, workforce participation and wages of Aboriginal workers. The Australian Workers Union included Aboriginal workers as members and in award claims, while the North Australian Workers Union excluded most Aboriginal workers and actively supported discrimination in employment. Clues to their differences are found in the contrasting workforce characteristics and profitability of the wool and cattle sectors of the industry; geographical location; competition between workers for jobs; and legislation specific to Aboriginal peoples. Trade union leadership and politics also play a part. Jude’s talk will conclude with a reflection on current trade union responses to the Temporary Work (Skilled) 457 Visa Program given her findings in relation to Aboriginal workers. Jude Elton is a curator with History SA and President of the Association for the Study of Labour History (SA Branch). She was awarded a PhD in 2007 for her thesis on factors affecting union relations with Aboriginal workers in the South Australian and Northern Territory pastoral industries. As a professional historian Jude has worked on Native Title claims and undertaken research for a film an Aboriginal war veterans. Work at the University of Adelaide and University of South Australia has included teaching in Labour Studies and gender analyses of industrial legislation. Jude has also been an elected Assistant Secretary of the United Trades & Labor Council (now SA Unions) and Director of the Working Women’s Centre.

Dr Don Longo: Rural SA and The Great War: the case of Yorke Peninsula

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07/13/16 • 62 min

Dr Don Longo presents a rural South Australian perspective on the First World War through the experiences of a young soldier from Koolywurtie, Yorke Peninsula. Australian iconography of the 'Great War' privileges the volunteer from rural communities, the ordinary boy from the farm caught up in extraordinary, and frequently violent and tragic, events. The official historian of the War, CEW Bean, puts ‘rural values’ at the heart of the Australian digger. Yet until recently historians have rarely explored the war experience of rural communities, at home or at the front. Was it for them really ‘a different war’, as historian Michael McKernan has claimed? If so, how was it ‘different’? And were there variations in this experience among members of the one regional community? These issues are explored through the example of South Australia’s’s Yorke Peninsula using the battlefront experience recorded in the diary, letters and other memorabilia of Pte Sidney King, a young soldier from Koolywurtie (near Minlaton) who was a stretcher bearer on the Western Front; and the patriotic response at home reflected in the Peninsula’s newspapers. Both sources provide unique, sometimes dissonant, but always interesting insights into the question. Dr Don Longo is a graduate in History from the University of Adelaide (1980) and the Université de Paris VIII (1985). Don worked at Adelaide University from 1985 until his retirement in 2009, working mostly in management, but also in developing languages and multicultural policy for tertiary education. He has written on twentieth century French history, Australian immigration since the 1920s and the First World War. He is currently researching the history of rural South Australia through the settlement and growth of Yorke Peninsula as ‘the granary of South Australia’, and has concurrently begun a biography of Raffaello Carboni (of the Eureka Stockade). He also does part-time teaching in History at Adelaide University. In 2015, in collaboration with the Ardrossan RSL and with support from Federal and State Anzac grants, he published ‘The Ties that Bind: Southern Yorke Peninsula and the Great War 1914-1919', the War Diary and Letters of Sidney P King, of Koolywurtie. Don’s wife Lyn (née Klopp) is from Maitland and is related to King’s descendants. The latter, Sandra and Robert Klopp, are active members of the Ardrossan RSL and have lovingly preserved the King family’s documents and memorabilia from the Great War which form the basis of the book.

What does a First Nations collection look like?

Talking History

12/18/20 • 37 min

What do you think of when you hear of a First Nations history collection? This presentation by Jacinta Koolmatrie, Curator of First Nations History at the Migration Museum, looks at what First Nations histories are represented in the History Trust’s collection. Using her experience and knowledge of working with the State History and South Australian Museum collections, Jacinta will explore what a First Nations collection should look like and how colonial objects can be reinterpreted to understand First Nations histories. This free public lecture is part of the History Trust's Talking History series.

South Australia’s British migrant stories – a mixed bag of memories

Talking History

09/01/20 • 11 min

Join Migration Museum Curator Birgit Heilmann as she discovers individual stories of British migrants who came to South Australia post Second World War. Oral histories which were undertaken for the ‘Hostel Stories Project’ by the History Trust of South Australia and The University of Adelaide between 2012 and 2014 form the basis of this podcast. Episode 2 of a three part series.

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How many episodes does Talking History have?

Talking History currently has 75 episodes available.

What topics does Talking History cover?

The podcast is about Architecture, History, Archaeology, Podcasts and Education.

What is the most popular episode on Talking History?

The episode title 'Death on the Cricket Field' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Talking History?

The average episode length on Talking History is 47 minutes.

How often are episodes of Talking History released?

Episodes of Talking History are typically released every 7 days, 3 hours.

When was the first episode of Talking History?

The first episode of Talking History was released on Aug 14, 2015.

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