Nicole Cama
HistorianMy aim is to engage and inspire audiences with stories from the past in creative ways
Nicole Cama
Historian
I’m a professional historian who specialises in social and public history, cultural collections and heritage research and interpretation. I have worked on projects for the City of Sydney, Dictionary of Sydney, IP Australia and more.
What I do
Research
Investigate and collate historical sources on a particular topic, individual, place, object(s) or time.
Analysis
Production
Publication
Featured Projects
Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst
A digital history project mapping the people and places of Liverpool Street, Darlinghurst from the 1840s to the 1940s.
Explore the history of the Sydney suburb of Darlinghurst using the fascinating data and materials held in the collections of this city’s most important cultural institutions.
The project encompassed almost 4,000 assessment book entries, 92 maps, 250 images, 65 architectural plans, and thousands of newspaper articles.
The Ultimo Roll of Honour
Several years ago, in a small attic of the former Ultimo Presbyterian Church, a handyman stumbled across a three-panelled wooden World War I honour board. Its gold lettering still glistened in the shadows with the names of men long gone, almost a century after the board’s creation.
While there are many stories about the movement of the honour roll that remain unknown, the stories behind the 36 names on the board are a poignant insight into the lives of the men who enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force and the effects of the war on the Ultimo community.
From Calabria with love
On 25 1953, Teresina Caccamo donned her wedding dress and made her way to the local church in Taurianova in Calabria, Italy. She proceeded up the aisle, but it wasn’t her fiancé who greeted her at the altar.
As the wedding bells chimed and the celebrations commenced, across the other side of the world the real groom was working in Australia’s largest foundry in Sydney. All it took was a photograph for Giovanni Cama to decide he wanted to marry Teresina. This is their story.
