News: social history

Transformative gift will support future excellence in engineering

Photo of Pamela Wall

South ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn philanthropist Pamela Wall has donated $5 million to the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide to establish an endowed academic chair: the Ian and Pamela Wall Chair in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. This extraordinarily large and generous gift will kickstart the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide’s 150th Anniversary Fundraising Campaign.

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Forgotten migrants were critical to the building of ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog

Port Augusta Railway Workers Huts

Personal accounts of migrants’ stories from their time in South ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn work camps could help researchers begin to construct a much fuller account of this important, yet overlooked, period of ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn history.

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Five decades of rock ‘n’ roll: UniBar joins Hall of Fame

A gig in the UniBar in 1990: the audience dances before a stage,

The ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide’s UniBar is being inducted into the South ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn Music Hall of Fame after 50 years of hosting iconic live music.

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Uni of Adelaide seeks social histories of Holden

Car being assembled

Historians at the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide and Monash ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog are searching for former Holden employees to interview about their working experiences for an oral history project to be housed at the National Library of ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog.

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