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.

On a chilly July morning in the school grounds of New South Wale's Newcastle High School, a bucket fire is burning. Thirty-six possum skins are arranged on a decorated table.

Dr Sachiyo Tsukamoto’s work gives voice to the Japanese women behind one of the largest, government-sponsored human trafficking and sexual slavery scandals in modern history.

A collaboration between the Yandaarra Collective and the University of Newcastle (UoN) has resulted in the March 2022 publication of a stunning children’s picture book with strong messages about caring for country and each other. Recommended for primary school students, The Dunggiirr Brothers and t

Originally played face-to-face, this component was ingeniously adapted the following year when the pandemic put staff and students into lockdown by Dr Hedda Askland, A/Associate Professor Daniela Heil and Professor Kate Senior collaborating with staff from the Learning Design and Teaching Innovation

Known as ayahs, South Asian nursemaids were the mainstay of child-care for British families in India during the Raj (1757-1947), and they travelled the world, accompanying European and elite Indian families on shipboard travel along the circuits of empire. Along with their East Asian counterparts

In the spirit of public pedagogy, young adults belonging to the Hunter region’s refugee cohort, visited the University of Newcastle’s (UoN) Gallery to see the Looking Through Windows exhibition and learn about Aboriginal Australians who grew up and lived on the missions, reserves and fringe camps at

A COVID initiative to reduce the isolation of Elders living in regional New South Wales has used weaving to link the communities of Bourke, Armidale and Uralla. Every Tuesday, between 10am and 1pm, women from three weaving circles connect to Zoom to weave, troubleshoot, share design patterns and,