Ian Willis Independent Scholar Commons username: @iwillis ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1751-8263 Following 2 members View ProfileActivitySites 1Following 2Followers 4Groups 7ForumsDocs 0 Academic InterestsAustralian historycritical humanitarianism studiesLocal studiesPlace studies;Red Cross Commons GroupsHCAgricultural HistoryGender StudiesHistoryMedical HumanitiesPlace StudiesSettler ColonialismUrban Studies Recent Commons Activity deposited Exploring ‘Just the Two of … in the group Place Studies deposited Exploring ‘Just the Two of … in the group History deposited Exploring ‘Just the Two of … deposited Exploring Camden Realism: Art… in the group Place Studies deposited Exploring Camden Realism: Art… in the group History Blog Posts KCWorksJournal articleThe early days of a NSW rural hospital (2025-09-16)Exhibition Notes: Hardy Wilson’s Old Colonial Architecture 1924-2024, University of Sydney Library (2024)Newspaper articleMotorcycle Club Sparked Adventure on the Open Road (2025-09-12)Camden’s French Connections (2025-08-03)A Cowpastures Memorial Quilt (2025-07-18)Privacy, piety and power at Camden Park (2025-07-04)Burragorang Coalfields – prosperity to closure (2025-05-23)Mid-century’s ‘not so humble’ housing boom (2025-05-08)Your next adventure might be right outside your door (2025-05-08)Invalid soldiers cared for at Mowbray Park (2025-04-25)A postcard from Frederick to Millie (2025-04-11)Menangle Agricultural Bureau display wins at 1937 Camden Show (2025-03-28)Mystery of the memorial anchor (2025-03-18)Camden Cottage Hospital, accidents to amputations (2025-02-14)January 26, 1901 fund raiser for Camden Cottage Hospital (2025-02-07)A Referendum Held to Bring Sport Back to Onslow Park (2024)Agave clump becomes part of local folklore (2024)Red Cross ladies contributed to the war effort (2024)The ‘Pansy’ once chugged through Camden (2024)Tribute to mining and industrial heritage (2024)Hawaii arrives in Camden (2024)Camden Police Station and Residence (2024)Young Women Enlisted in the Land Army (2024)The Cowpastures Region 1795-1840 (2024)Blog postHistory of Camden Motorcycle Club: pioneers of adventure, movement and modernism (2025-09-07)Discover the Hidden Signatures of Camden’s Former Bank (2025-08-15)AI Transforming History Education: Opportunities & Challenges (2025-08-08)Exploring the Cowpastures: the early history of a settler society (2025-07-25)Creative Kids: Art Play Workshops at Narellan Town Centre (2025-07-18)The Role of Scarlet Fever in Literature and Film (2025-07-17)Addressing Australia’s Heritage Skills Crisis (2025-07-08)Privacy, piety and power at Camden Park: 1905 Vickery-Ellis marriage (2025-06-29)Historian writes about McWings: storytelling as effective marketing (2025-06-28)Sydney’s Cultural Identity: A City of Contradictions (2025-06-27)Top Walking Trails in Camden: Experience Walking the Cowpastures (2025-06-15)Exploring Community History: Benefits and Applications (2025-06-09)How History Shapes Our Present and Future (2025-06-02)Community Recognition Morning Tea for Camden Recipients at NSW Parliament (2025-05-30)Explore History with Friends of Belgenny Farm Events (2025-05-26)Understanding NSW’s 2025 Draft Heritage Strategy (2025-05-23)Navigating Australia’s Housing Crisis: Insights from Sydney’s Urban Fringe (2025-05-18)Exploring Hilsyde: A Look at Elderslie’s Historic Home (2025-05-18)Exploring Your Hometown: Hidden Gems Await (2025-05-07)Camden’s First Hospital: A Historical Insight (2025-04-26)The Celebration Society: Revitalizing Picton’s Retail Scene Through Adaptive Re-use (2025-04-25)2025 Camden Show: A Photographic Journey (2025-04-25)Understanding the Anzac Myth: Truths and Contradictions (2025-04-24)Understanding the Camden Story: History, Community, and Identity (2025-04-22)Camden Historical Society’s Strategic Plan Draft Unveiled (2025-04-18)John Macarthur, Father of Australia’s Wool Industry, fact or fiction (2025-03-30)Rosa Sibella Macarthur Onslow’s garden legacy in Canberra (2025-03-30)Camden Council vote on listing the Camden Township on the State Heritage Register (2025-03-13)Sarah Ashcroft: Art as a Journey of Healing (2025-03-10)Exploring Greg Johns’s ‘Vortex Mandala’ at Oran Park Leisure Centre (2025-02-21)The Camden Fibro Cottage and its connection to mid-century housing styles (2025-02-10)Types of Mid-Century Modernist Housing in Camden (2025-02-10)A Journey Through Camden’s Mid-Century Housing Architecture (2025-02-08)Understanding Bellman Hangars: Camden’s WWII Heritage (2024-11-12)Denbigh Open Days: Exploring Historic Colonial Farm (2024)Interwar Camden, the heritage of a country town (2024)Burragorang Coalfields: From Prosperity to Closure (2024)Despina’s story, fond memories of living in Campbelltown (2024)Public art in Hobart tells the story of female convicts in Van Diemen’s Land (2024)Garden Palace, showing the wonders of the age (2024)Exploring ‘Just the Two of Us’ at Tegel Gallery 581 (2024)Talk on the Cowpastures at the State Library of NSW (2024)Airds Shopping Mall demolition, the unmet expectations of modernism (2024)Camden Art Prize, an acquisitive collection in the local artistic landscape (2024)Unveiling Hardy Wilson’s architectural legacy and his influence on Camden’s aesthetics (2024)Carinya homestead, part of lost Camden (2024)Back to Belgenny 2024, a festival of living history (2024)Revitalizing John Street: A Vision for Community Placemaking (2024)Nancy Phelan’s Reflections on the English Resemblance of Cobbitty, NSW (2024)Why does the sale of a local church create community angst? What is going on? (2024)Future of the former Camden police barracks: community concerns (2024)The Rotolactor, a Menangle milking marvel (2024)Australia Day 1915 in Camden: Record-breaking Wartime Fundraiser (2024)Exploring Camden Realism: Art as storytelling (2024)Who were the Camden Chinese market gardeners, a new book reveals the story (2024)Explore Unlock Camden 2024: Uncover Camden’s Rich History (2024)Agave on Cawdor Road, a part of local folklore (2024)Public art by young women artists on display at Oran Park (2024)Camden Police Station and Residence: A Historical Landmark in Camden (2024)The Library Museum Building, conservation through adaptation (2024)Exploring Camden’s Railway Heritage: Pansy and Its Timeless Stories (2024)The Role of British Red Cross in NSW Wartime Front: Home Truths in Australian History (2024)Other presentation materialCamden Cottage Hospital: the early days of a New South Wales rural hospital 1899-1902 (2025-07-10)Camden Cottage Hospital, the early days of a New South Wales rural hospital, 1899-1902 (2025-06-24)Text DocumentSpotlight on Dr Ian Willis OAM (2025-06-17)Camden History v5n9 March 2025 (2025-04-01)Magazine articleCamden Cottage Hospital, The Early Years, An Investigation on Trove (2025-06-06)PresentationPrayer, Patriotism and Place, 110 Years of Service of the Camden Red Cross 1914-2024 (2025-06-03)Death in Training at Liverpool Field Hospital in early 1915 (2025-05-17)ReviewBook Notes (2025-03-04)OtherCamden History Journal March 2024 v5n7 (2024)Hunter Valley: Times makes 100 issues. (2024)BookA History of Chinese Market Gardeners 1899-1993 (2024)Conference paperThe convalescent soldier and the British Red Cross on New South Wales wartime home front in the First World War. (2024)Yearning, Longing and The Remaking of Camden’s Identity: the myths and reality of ‘a country town idyll’. (2024)ReportLife So Full of Promise: Further Biographies of Australia’s Lost Generation – Presentation Report (2024)