The theme for History Week 2022 is 'Hands-on History'. For History Week 2022 we invite you to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty!
History doesn’t only happen in archives, libraries and books. Very often we need to go out in the field and get hands-on to connect with different sources, stories and audiences. Hands-on History invites you to explore histories by or about people who do things with their hands, whether that is for work or play.
You may also like to creatively consider how you use your hands to do history; be that digging up artefacts, uncovering archives, restoring precious and everyday objects, curating exhibitions, writing and drawing, sewing, painting, even making music or a film or podcast!
We want you to re-think Hands-on History and present your ideas in History Week 2022. You are encouraged to tell these stories through Histories of particular interest to you. We encourage variety and diversity.
Your event/s can be held online, in person or in a mixed hybrid model.
*NOTES:
1) Please contact us for suggestions about how you might be able to run your event online.
2) If you are going to run online & in-person events, please fill out a separate entry form for each program of events (not individual days of the same event).
3) You must be a member of the History Council of NSW to register an event for History Week 2022. Events must be relevant to the practice of history and the theme, 'Hands-on History', and will be published at the discretion of the History Council.
The event must take place during History Week:
3rd September - 11th September 2022.