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Professor Kate Senior wears many hats, but never did she imagine having to prepare tea and cucumber sandwiches for a …

Community members and top medical bodies across the Hunter and New England regions have joined forces in a powerful bid …

Community members and top medical bodies across the Hunter and New England regions have joined forces in a powerful bid …

Two separate projects, one with the Department of Education (DoE), the other an ARC Discovery grant will engage in Indigenous histories from Indigenous perspectives with a view to advancing reconciliation and build meaningful connections across Australia.

The University of Newcastle and our broader communities are proud to mark the 40th anniversary of the esteemed Wollotuka Institute.

A team of multi-disciplinary researchers has secured funding from the Australian Research Council to use collaborative storytelling to highlight historical links between Newcastle and Ngukurr - a remote Aboriginal community in Southeast Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.

An event celebrating the creativity and stories of First Nations Novocastrians by focusing on dreams for the future was hosted by Purai Global Indigenous History Centre at the Newcastle Conservatorium of Music in September 2023.

Newcastle is well-known for its energetic trade unionism dating back to the 1870s, more obscure is their support for Indigenous activists fighting injustice, but all this is about to change with the digitising of the papers of the late Stan Masterton through the University of Newcastle’s Special Col

Activist, community leader and Elder, Dr Daphne Daniels believes in the power of education and research as a first step to drive change in Aboriginal communities.

An online exhibition documenting the lives, experiences and histories of the intrepid Indian and Chinese nursemaids who travelled the circuits of the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries won the Addi Road Multicultural History Award 2022 at the History Council NSW (HCNSW) award’s

The flame of Purai Global Indigenous History Centre will be kept alive in 2023 with the appointment of two new Directors, Dr Raymond Kelly and Professor Kate Senior.

The Ayahs and Amahs online exhibition brings to life the stories, memories and histories of the intrepid Indian and Chinese nursemaids who travelled the circuits of the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.