QVMAG Friends Our people, their stories  JULY 2025

QVMAG Friends

"Extraordinary Ordinary  Lives"- with Susan Aykut

Queen Victoria Museum Inveresk

QVMAG Friends Our people, their stories 10.30 am July 23rd 2025Queen Victoria Museum InvereskThe QVMAG Friends presents 'Our people, their stories' "Extraordinary, Ordinary Lives with Susan Aykut"About Susan

Ten years ago, Susan was presented with some transcripts of life stories made in 1999 with clients of the organisation she works for. As the ‘resident’ historian, Susan was asked to ‘Do something with them.’ Now, a decade later, she has. She will share with you what she has discovered as she has compiled those and other stories she has collected over the past decade in a forthcoming book, ‘Extraordinary Ordinary Lives’, and why they are important.Many of the stories in the book are reflections and memories from people who migrated to Australia after the Second World War. Their stories are both powerful and extraordinary records capturing their war-time experiences and what they felt, and how they adjusted to life in a new country. They have something to say about surviving a war, on being a migrant, and on working in industries and businesses that contributed to the development of post-war Tasmania.For the past decade Susan has worked on a range of special projects and programs for Community Care TASMANIA(CCT), a locally-owned, not-for-profit home care serviceprovider. Established 35 years ago under the auspice of the Migrant Resource Centre, CCT began life providing services to migrants, primarily those who arrived after the Second World War, who had by 1990 become senior citizens.In a past life, Susan has been an academic and professional historian. She has worked at three Melbourne universities, La Trobe, Melbourne and at Monash University, where she was the Deputy Director for the Institute for Public History.‘Extraordinary Ordinary Lives’ continues her passion to preserve and make history public.

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