Blog: Social histories, social media.

from Pool team, 05.08.09

Launching today is Glebebytes, a community-based oral history project celebrating 150 years of the Sydney suburb Glebe. Lucky for us the stories are collected right here in Pool. It's fantastic to see social media and social histories blending like this.

As project coordinator Julia Burns said in an interview earlier this week with the Sydney Morning Herald, "we’ve been told tales of illegal bookmakers, the six o’clock swill, housing squats, timber yards on Blackwattle Bay, and the Saturday matinee at the Astor,’’ she said. ‘‘It’s a community patchwork that knits together the suburb’s history."

"Together we have created a Pool-based site that allows us to widely distribute these amazing stories to the international community and to further distribute them through a partnership with the City of Sydney sponsored Wireless House project." The Wireless House is another social history collaboration based in Pool.

Glebebytes has been about collaboration and mentoring as well. "It's taught Commission Housing Residents in Glebe how to collect and edit the extraordinary oral histories of their neighbours" said Julia.

You can listen, watch and comment on all these Glebe bytes here.

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Image: The Glebe Anti-Expressway Campaign - part 1

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• Glebe
• glebebytes
• Social History
• Wireless House

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