FHACT December Monthly Meeting
06th November 2025
By Engagement Committee
Family History ACT December Monthly Meeting and Christmas Drinks: Monday 1 December at 7pm. (In person at the FHACT Education Room, Cook Community Hub, Templeton Street, Cook, or online via Zoom]. All welcome. Members and guests interested in attending should register for this event here
Topic: Digital History, Family History and Technology.
Special Guest Speaker: Hamish Maxwell Stewart
Please note, this event will be held on a Monday night, not our usual Tuesday.
We are delighted to announce that we will be joined in person by Professor Hamish Maxwell Stewart, who will discuss the topic Digital History, Family History and Technology.
Digital tools and emerging technologies are reshaping the way historians work. Hamish has devoted more than 30 years to examining the relationship between technology and family history research. This talk is sure to be a fascinating look at how technology is changing the way we explore the past.
Afterwards, please stay and enjoy our Christmas drinks and nibbles – a lovely way to wrap up the year together.
About Hamish Maxwell Stewart: After graduating with a PhD from the University of Edinburgh, Hamish worked for the University of Glasgow before migrating to Australia in 1997 and joining the University of Tasmania. As a Research Fellow he co-designed the highly successful Lottery of Life exhibition which ran at Port Arthur from 1999-2018. In 2000 he was appointed to the teaching staff in the Department of History and Classics, where he worked until 2011 when he was appointed as a visiting fellow at the University of Texas. The following year he took up the Keith Cameron Chair in Australian History at University College Dublin. On his return to the University of Tasmania in 2013 he was appointed Associate Dean Research for the Faculty of Arts, a position he held until 2016. During that time, he established a successful diploma in Family History as well as teaching World History at first year level. After a highly successful 23 years at the University of Tasmania, Hamish joined the History and Archaeology team at UNE in April 2021 as Professor of Heritage and Digital Humanities.