
2020 Ruth Morgan: Archives for a dry and drying land »
Tue 20 Oct 2020
This lecture is now available online.
By all accounts, 2020 has been a remarkable year.
Bushfires of unprecedented duration and spread, then a...

2019 Professor Jenny Hocking: Archival Secrets and Hidden Histories »
Tue 10 Sep 2019
Join us at the ANU Archives annual lecture for 2019 - 'Archival Secrets and Hidden Histories: Reasserting the Right to Public Access'.
Public access...

Professor Simon Ville: Tales of the unexpected: why archival research remains important today »
Tue 9 Oct 2018
For the contemporary researcher, archival research is often considered antiquarian and too labour intensive to meet the publication demands of the...

Vote 'Yes' for Equality »
Wed 17 May – Tue 31 Oct 2017
In a referendum on 27 May 1967 more than 90 percent of voters agreed to amend sections of the Australian Constitution which discriminated against...

2017 Dr Shino Konishi: Indigenous lives and the Australian Dictionary of Biography »
Mon 16 Oct 2017
Of the more than 12,000 individuals included in the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) only 210 (1.5%) of all entries relate to Indigenous...

70 years of the Australian National University »
Mon 1 Aug 2016 – Tue 31 Jan 2017
To celebrate the 70th birthday of The Australian National University (ANU), the ANU Archives has put together an exhibition of documents and...

2016 Phil Carswell OAM: Did the Grim Reaper win? »
Tue 25 Oct 2016
The early history of HIV/AIDS in Australia was marked with controversial political decisions and public and social discrimination, anger and...

Did the Grim Reaper win? »
Tue 20 Sep 2016
Presented by ANU Archives and the Friends of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre, this lecture will cover the early history of HIV/AIDS in Australia and...

Living, working and playing at Mt Stromlo »
Sun 1 May – Fri 15 Jul 2016
Mt Stromlo Observatory is known for its outstanding research into astronomy and astrophysics, including the work of Nobel Prize winner and current...

High street dreams »
Tue 1 Sep 2015
Wealth from gold and wool, combined with a growing population, facilitated the expansion and transformation of shops across Australia at the end of...
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Past presentations
- Proud past, bright future »
- Feminism for the 21st century »
- Whose memories, whose records: when the archival legacy of a colonial past meets the cultural records of a post-colonial future »
- The Real War? Battles on the Australian home front 1914–19 »
- Whither business history? Memory, message and meaning »