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In Nooks and Crannies, the History Council of South Australia showcases its wares. Celebrating the History Council of South Australia's 20th anniversary is this eclectic collection of short essays by its varied membership - experienced and emerging historians from various fields of academia and institutions - casting a new light on stories of inventions, migration, industry, heritage, museums and associations, both new and old, Indigenous and settler. Featured are both the well-known and the previously untold or unnoticed narratives of South Australians whose contributions to the state have been significant. The Both brothers from Caltowie saved numerous lives by inventing a cheap and efficient iron lung during a poliomyelitis outbreak, and improving the electrocardiograph and humidicrib. In Mile End, in 1942, a high-ranking American army officer commandeered a small Mile End factory, transforming it into an operation producing more than 100,000 cans of rabbit to help feed American military forces. Three discussions, histories-within-history, reveal the origins of the Council, which arose from activist concern during the 1990s for the return of history in school curricula and developed into the nongovernment representative body it is today. Ultimately, through its focus on South Australian history, Nooks and Crannies builds on CEO Greg Mackie's statement of the need to 'reassert the critical importance of the past to our collective future'.

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The History Council of South Australia (HCSA), founded 2003, was formally launched in April 2004 as an independent body to bring together the many organisations and individuals either working on history in South Australia, or working on the history of South Australia. Yianni Cartledge is a history PhD graduate and Greek Studies lecturer at Flinders University (Adelaide), researching early Greek migrants to the Anglosphere. He was secretary of the History Council of South Australia (HCSA) from 2020 to 2023 and acknowledges his supervisors Prof. Andrekos Varnava and Dr Evan Smith, and his colleagues on the past and present HCSA committees. Bridget Jolly trained as a painter-printmaker. She studied and taught Western art and architectural history at Flinders and Adelaide universities (South Australia), and developed an eclectic interest in South Australian social history, particularly of Kangaroo Island. She tutors in English as Another Language to refugee women.

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