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Nov

2017

Digitisation of an ANU invention »

Professor Mervyn Paterson started the design and construction of the first High Pressure, High Temperature (HPT) rock deformation apparatus in 1960...

Menzies Foyer November 2017 to February 2018

07

Nov

2017

New Archives exhibition: 1917 A year of turmoil »

ANU Archives presents a new exhibition looking at two of the dramatic and divisive events of 1917, the great strike and the conscription referendum...

17

Oct

2017

Watch the 2017 Annual Archives lecture - Indigenous lives and the Australian Dictionary of Biography »

Watch Dr Shino Konishi deliver the 2017 Annual Archives lecture on ANU TV. Of the more than 12,000 individuals included in the Australian Dictionary...

10

Oct

2017

Early 20th century trade union newspapers available online »

The ANU Archives has digitised and made available online early editions of two historic newspapers from the Rail and Tram Unions. The All Grades...

27

Sep

2017

Navigating the Sea of Islands exhibition now on. »

ANU Pacific Research Archivist Christine Bryan presents an exhibition highlighting the history of navigation and migration in the Pacific. This...

26

Sep

2017

2017 Annual lecture »

Dr Shino Konishi will deliver the 2017 Annual Archives Lecture on Monday 16 October at 4pm in the McDonald Room of the RG Menzies Building. See our...

Minute book of the Herald Office Chapel, Printing Industry Employees' Union of Australia. New South Wales Branch, 1848-1865

18

Sep

2017

Minute books of pre-Federation Australian Trade Unions now available online. »

The Australian National University has made available online digital copies of over 200 minute books documenting the workings of pre-Federation trade...

22

Aug

2017

2017 Eric Fry labour history scholarship winner »

Congratulations to Geraldine Fela, an Honours student in History at the Australian National University, who has been awarded the Eric Fry Research...

17

May

2017

New exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Referendum »

In May 1967 the vast majority of Australian voters approved changes to two sections of the Constitution relating to Aboriginal Australians. The 'Yes...