Downloadable HIstory now available as an ebook
On behalf of the Chief Investigators, staff and participants in the Deepening Histories of Place ARC Linkage Project hosted by the Australian National University, Professor Ann McGrath has announced that the first Downloadable History is now freely available on iTunes as an eBook:
At the Heart of It ... Place stories across Darug and Gundungurra Lands can be read on an iPad and on a Laptop or Desktop computer using the latest OSX operating system (Mavericks).
Created and directed by one of the project’s three PhD students, Julia Torpey, it presents filmed interviews of numerous people from around the Sydney and Blue Mountains regions. Using stunning landscapes as backdrops, their compelling relationships with sites are presented. A series of engaging individuals appear on film to share their intimate feelings and contrasting stories about place.
Beautifully designed and filmed, we hope this eBook offers a new way of appreciating the visceral relationships with land enjoyed by contemporary Indigenous people who hold links with places in these localities.
Project participants are excited about the potential of this new mode of delivering history stories, and of experiencing personalized landscapes of the past and present.
The work owes credit to Technical Officer Dr Jason Ensor, to Research Associate Dr Mary-Anne Jebb, to Indigenous Liaison Officer Karen Maber and to Dr Peter Read of the University of Sydney. All the participants in the project, including interviewees and the ProjectPartners, are heartily thanked elsewhere.
