Research Project
Researchers: Associate Professor Janis Wilton , Janis Wilton
Full description
Family Ties was initiated as a collaborative project between Inverell Cultural and Arts Council, Inverell District Family History Group, the UNE Heritage Futures Centre and the Historic Houses Trust of NSW. Its aim was to:
- develop and trial a pilot project for the identification, management and community access to documentary and movable heritage collections linked to a specific site and district in rural New South Wales;
- utilise the identified and linked movable heritage and documentary collections to re-interpret the site within the district in a variety of mediums (publications, exhibitions, on-line, driving tours) and for a variety of purposes (academic research, cultural tourism, heritage conservation, adaptive re-use strategies); and
- establish and consolidate ongoing partnerships between local, regional, state and national community, cultural, conservation and educational groups, organisations and institutions.
The specific site is the Newstead pastoral property, Elsmore, Paradise district near Inverell in northern New South Wales. The site is significant as an early pastoral property in the district and for its association with the Australian artist Tom Roberts.
The research conducted for the project has informed the conservation and re-interpretation of the Newstead site, guided tours to the site by Inverell District Family History Group, a number of public talks and presentations, and the didactic panels on display at the site.
Outcomes
Bryan, Muriel, People in the Paintings, Presentation, Tom Roberts Festival, Inverell 2001.
Hodgens, Ann, The People of Newstead and Paradise Presentation, Tom Roberts Festival, Inverell 2006.
McRae, Camilla and Hodgens, Ann, Family Ties, Presentation at Australian Historical Association Regional Conference, Armidale, 2007.
Hodgens, Ann, The People in the Paintings, A research report for the Art Gallery of NSW, 2006.
Guided tours to Newstead homestead and shearing shed for many groups including Armidale Historical Society; NSW & ACT Association of Family History Societies conference delegates; The Horbury Hunt Club; and ASHET, the Australian Society for History of Engineering and Technology.
Family history research assistance provided for numerous descendants of people who lived and worked in the area.
Family Ties was also the catalyst and focus for the development of the Heritage Futures Online Database which has subsequently been used for a number of other projects including Different Sights: Immigrants in New England; New England Archaeology; and Views of Maitland.
The research data is shared through the Family Ties online database hosted by the UNE Heritage Futures Research Centre.
Data time period: 1830-01-01
- Local : www.une.edu.au:hfrc:ands:fta01