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  • October 2025
    • 25 Nov 2025 Jocko Graves: Maitland’s ‘Little Black Boy’ 25 Nov 2025
  • September 2025
    • 13 Oct 2025 Maitland Mechanics’ Institute 13 Oct 2025
    • 13 Oct 2025 Seventy-five years of piping and drumming in Maitland 13 Oct 2025
  • August 2025
    • 19 Sept 2025 George Yeomans, entrepreneur of early Maitland 19 Sept 2025
    • 17 Sept 2025 The telephone comes to Maitland 17 Sept 2025
    • 16 Sept 2025 Pharmacies in High St during the 1950s and 1960s 16 Sept 2025
    • 16 Sept 2025 Maitland’s steam trams 16 Sept 2025
    • 16 Sept 2025 The Chinese gardeners of Maitland 16 Sept 2025
    • 6 Sept 2025 ‘Ducks’ and ‘alligators’ in Maitland’s floods 6 Sept 2025
  • July 2025
    • 26 Aug 2025 Otto Baldwin, colonial entrepreneur with wide-ranging interests 26 Aug 2025
    • 23 Aug 2025 The Maitland Lions Club and ‘Lionsville’ 23 Aug 2025
    • 23 Aug 2025 Floods bigger than the 1955 flood? 23 Aug 2025
    • 18 Aug 2025 Origins and development of the Ambulance Service in Maitland 18 Aug 2025
    • 17 Aug 2025 Maitland’s loss of the regional capital role 17 Aug 2025
    • 14 Aug 2025 Maitland: ‘Hub of the Hunter’ and ‘Capital of the North’ in the mid-1800s 14 Aug 2025
    • 14 Aug 2025 A dignitary’s death and funeral, 1893 14 Aug 2025
    • 13 Aug 2025 John Gillies, mayor and MP 13 Aug 2025
    • 10 Aug 2025 Dr R J Pierce, loved nineteenth century medico 10 Aug 2025
    • 10 Aug 2025 ‘The Cut’ that severed the Horseshoe Bend meander in 1893 10 Aug 2025
  • June 2025
    • 21 July 2025 Maitland, circa 1830 21 July 2025
    • 21 July 2025 A village on the river: Horseshoe Bend 21 July 2025
    • 20 July 2025 The Glenbawn Dam rumour and the 1955 flood 20 July 2025
    • 16 July 2025 The electric telegraph comes to Maitland 16 July 2025
    • 11 July 2025 Those magnificent men and their cycling machines 11 July 2025
    • 11 July 2025 The shortening of the lower Hunter River 11 July 2025
  • May 2025
    • 26 June 2025 Helping hands from outside Maitland: the 1955 flood 26 June 2025
    • 26 June 2025 John McLauchlin and drowning in floods 26 June 2025
    • 26 June 2025 Re-naming of Maitland’s public high schools in 1987 and 1990 26 June 2025
    • 26 June 2025 Thomas Strode and the ill-fated Hunter River Gazette 26 June 2025
    • 15 June 2025 Alexander (Sandy) McDonald 15 June 2025
    • 15 June 2025 James Wallis 15 June 2025
    • 14 June 2025 Sewering Maitland 14 June 2025
    • 14 June 2025 Walka Water Works 14 June 2025
    • 9 June 2025 Origin and evolution of Maitland SES 9 June 2025
    • 9 June 2025 Barrington Tops, development and conservation on Maitland’s edge 9 June 2025
    • 1 June 2025 West Maitland Fire Brigade 1 June 2025
  • April 2025
    • 26 May 2025 Cumberland Hall 26 May 2025
    • 26 May 2025 Caroline Chisholm, humanitarian and philanthropist 26 May 2025
    • 22 May 2025 East Maitland, a century ago 22 May 2025
    • 19 May 2025 The Bolwarra Embankment Committee 19 May 2025
    • 18 May 2025 The origins of flood mitigation in the Maitland area 18 May 2025
    • 17 May 2025 The Falls: first river crossing point at Maitland 17 May 2025
    • 17 May 2025 Trolling, 1890s-style in the Maitland Mercury 17 May 2025
    • 16 May 2025 Stan Dunkley, Maitland’s Town Clerk, 1949-1966 16 May 2025
  • October 2023
    • 2 Nov 2023 The Gallery site 2 Nov 2023
  • September 2023
    • 13 Oct 2023 Maitland Scientific Society 13 Oct 2023
    • 9 Oct 2023 Macquarie’s great experiments: Patersons Plains and Wallis Plains 9 Oct 2023
  • June 2023
    • 26 July 2023 Maitland remembers Passchendaele 26 July 2023
    • 26 July 2023 Jack Bowden Pryor 26 July 2023
    • 22 July 2023 Nineteenth century race relations: a sad story 22 July 2023
    • 22 July 2023 Hailstorms in nineteenth century Maitland 22 July 2023
  • November 2022
    • 13 Dec 2022 Names of early Maitland 13 Dec 2022
    • 13 Dec 2022 Half a century ago … 13 Dec 2022
    • 6 Dec 2022 Ploughing matches 6 Dec 2022
    • 6 Dec 2022 The great flood of 1893 6 Dec 2022
  • September 2022
    • 14 Oct 2022 Bob Watson - sprinting champion 14 Oct 2022
    • 13 Oct 2022 The Long Bridges 13 Oct 2022
  • July 2022
    • 13 Aug 2022 Depredations by bushrangers 13 Aug 2022
    • 13 Aug 2022 Bushranging in the Maitland area 13 Aug 2022
    • 13 Aug 2022 The veterans of Veterans Flat 13 Aug 2022
  • May 2022
    • 11 June 2022 John Wright 11 June 2022
    • 11 June 2022 Port of Maitland 11 June 2022
    • 11 June 2022 Social class in early Maitland 11 June 2022
    • 11 June 2022 The railway that never was 11 June 2022
    • 11 June 2022 Rail link to Sydney 11 June 2022
    • 31 May 2022 The railway extends 1863-1932 31 May 2022
    • 31 May 2022 Onward to Singleton 1858-1863 31 May 2022
    • 31 May 2022 Grandest party - July 1858 31 May 2022
    • 31 May 2022 East Maitland to West Maitland railway 1857-1858 31 May 2022
  • April 2022
    • 31 May 2022 The new railway in use 1857-1858 31 May 2022
    • 31 May 2022 Grand opening - March 1857 31 May 2022
    • 25 May 2022 East Maitland to Hexham railway 1855-1857 25 May 2022
    • 25 May 2022 Hunter River Railway Company 1853-1855 25 May 2022
    • 23 May 2022 Nowland’s Gap 23 May 2022
    • 23 May 2022 Sex in the town 23 May 2022
    • 22 May 2022 The first failed attempt to move Maitland 22 May 2022
    • 18 May 2022 The great flood of 1820 18 May 2022
    • 17 May 2022 Henry Dangar, first surveyor 17 May 2022
    • 17 May 2022 Lachlan Macquarie and Maitland 17 May 2022
    • 13 May 2022 Molly Morgan, redoubtable pioneer 13 May 2022
  • March 2022
    • 19 Apr 2022 Back to Maitland 1927 19 Apr 2022
    • 17 Apr 2022 Rev George Middleton 17 Apr 2022
    • 17 Apr 2022 Poundkeeping in colonial Maitland 17 Apr 2022
    • 17 Apr 2022 Punts in the Lower Hunter 17 Apr 2022
    • 7 Apr 2022 Spanish flu 7 Apr 2022
    • 5 Apr 2022 ‘Doc’ Evatt 5 Apr 2022
  • February 2022
    • 31 Mar 2022 Maitland Jewish Cemetery 31 Mar 2022
    • 29 Mar 2022 Wolstenholme memorial 29 Mar 2022
    • 22 Mar 2022 Aboriginal nations and European invasion 22 Mar 2022
    • 20 Mar 2022 Changes to vegetation and wetlands 20 Mar 2022
  • December 2021
    • 13 Jan 2022 A deep-water river port 13 Jan 2022
    • 13 Jan 2022 Maitland’s first merchants 13 Jan 2022
    • 13 Jan 2022 Deep time 13 Jan 2022
    • 13 Jan 2022 A trip to Coal River in 1801 13 Jan 2022
    • 13 Jan 2022 Thomas Dimmock, printing entrepreneur 13 Jan 2022
    • 13 Jan 2022 Gentleman John Smith 13 Jan 2022
    • 12 Jan 2022 Inciting another to exhume bodies 12 Jan 2022
    • 12 Jan 2022 Maitland’s federation connections 12 Jan 2022
    • 12 Jan 2022 Maitland’s High Street 12 Jan 2022
    • 12 Jan 2022 Pioneers on the Bolwarra flats 12 Jan 2022
  • October 2021
    • 10 Nov 2021 Service to soldiers 10 Nov 2021
    • 10 Nov 2021 Our past in the Maitland Mercury 10 Nov 2021
    • 10 Nov 2021 Church and politics 10 Nov 2021
    • 10 Nov 2021 Lily White washer 10 Nov 2021
    • 10 Nov 2021 Maitland’s brickmasters 10 Nov 2021

The Maitland and District Historical Society acknowledges the traditional Country of the Wonnarua people; recognises and appreciates their cultural heritage, beliefs, and ongoing relationship with the land; and pays respect to their elders and people past and present.

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