Hey History!

UTS Impact Studios•heyhistory.net

A podcast for kids age 8-12 about Australian history with stories, music, and immersive soundscapes. The podcast follows Stage 2 and 3 of the Australian curriculum, and of NSW, Victoria, Western Australia and Queensland. Students can listen in class and use our Learning Materials designed and road-tested by a primary school educator. Go back in time to the Gold Rush. What happened at the meetings between Captain Cook and First Nations people at Kamay Botany Bay? Experience life as a convict kid, and hear how First Nations people learn on Country. Hey History! is made by history professors, so you'll hear from Australia's top historians and experts. It's produced by The Australian Centre for Public History and Impact Studios at the University of Technology Sydney, in partnership with La Trobe University.

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Episodes

EP7 Bonus: Walk for truth-telling

Have you ever told the truth but it felt like no one listened? This special bonus episode is all about truth-telling. Hey History! follows Travis Lovett, a proud Gunditjmara/Kerrupmara man and Commissioner at the Yoorrook Justice Commission, on a 400km 'Walk for Truth' across Victoria. Who is Travis Lovett, and why is he going on a really, really long walk? What is the Yoorrook Justice Commission? What is 'truth-telling', and how can it happen with history? Host Axel Clark and students from St P...

Jun 15, 2025•30 min

EP6 Bonus: Hey History! LIVE at Adelaide Writers Festival

In this special live recording of Hey History! host Axel Clark asks historians Clare Wright, Anna Clark and Kiera Lindsey what historical objects can tell us about the past? What can a piece of ochre tell us about Australia’s Deep Time History? And what about a pair of South Australian pink shorts? We ask kids what objects are special to them, and play guessing games with objects - including one that's in the Guinness Book of World Records! This episode of Hey History! was recorded on Kaurna Cou...

Apr 11, 2025•44 min

EP5 Bonus: How to talk with kids about Australian history

How do you teach and talk about Australian history with kids? This is a bonus episode for teachers, carers and parents featuring Professor Anna Clark and Professor Clare Wright. Teaching and talking about history with kids can be rewarding and challenging. From their experience studying and teaching history, Clare and Anna tackle questions like: How can kids in primary school work with history’s complexity? How can primary students consider the moral lessons of what they're learning? How do you ...

May 15, 2024•18 min

EP4 Gold fever

What were the Gold Rushes? Why did people from all over the world get ‘gold fever’? What was life like on the Ballarat goldfields of Victoria, on Wada Wurrung Country? With so many different groups of people, how did everyone get along? Did First Nations people mine gold too? What was the Eureka Stockade? How did the Gold Rushes change Australia? Students from Preshill Primary School and Westbourne Grammar in Melbourne tell us what they know about the Gold Rushes. Fred Cahir, Andrew Pearce, Sara...

May 15, 2024•28 min•Season 1Ep. 4

EP3 Convict kids

Why did kids get transported from Britain to Australia? What were their crimes? Did they miss their families? What was life like as a convict in Van Dieman’s Land, an open air prison on Palawa land? Students from Princes Street Primary School in Hobart tell us what they know about convict kids. Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and Marcelle Mangan tell the story of transportation, convict tattoos and tokens, and convict life at the Cascades Female Factory in Hobart. They answer kids’ questions and reflect ...

May 14, 2024•33 min•Season 1Ep. 3

EP2 First meetings at Kamay Botany Bay

In 1770, Captain Cook got secret instructions to find the ‘Great South Land’. His ship The Endeavour sailed into Kamay Botany Bay, the land of the Gweagal people. How did the Gweagal people meet Captain Cook and his crew? How did they communicate? What happened over the eight days that Captain Cook stayed in Botany Bay? Students from Marrickville West Primary School in Sydney tell us what they know about this encounter. Ray Ingrey and Paul Irish, along with Captain Cook’s own diary, tell the sto...

May 14, 2024•24 min•Season 1Ep. 2

EP1 The Oldest Classroom

How did First Nations people learn before books, school and the internet? What are some of the teaching places on Country? Can a cave or a beach be a classroom? What’s the role of rock art, like engravings, stencils and prints, in the ‘oldest classroom’? What are the different kinds of classrooms First Nations kids learn ion today? Students at La Perouse Primary School in Sydney tell us what they know about how their ancestors learnt on Country. Wayne Brennan and host Axel Clark visit a very old...

May 14, 2024•24 min•Season 1Ep. 1

EP0 Introducing... Hey History!

A podcast all about Australian history where the kids ask the questions. Go back in time to the Gold Rush. What happened at the meetings between Captain Cook and First Nations people at Kamay Botany Bay? Experience life as a convict kid, and hear how First Nations people learn on Country. Each episode has music, stories, primary sources and sound-rich scenes with Australia's top historians and experts. Listen to our 4 episodes in any order. And, there's a bonus episode How to talk with kids abou...

Apr 23, 2024•3 min

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