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Dec

2015

Staff news »

Sarah Lethbridge was acting University Archivist from September through November while Maggie Shapley was on long-service leave. Maggie presented a...

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Jun

2015

Newly processed collections »

In conjunction with the data entry project, we have appraised, arranged and described a significant number of small collections in the Noel Butlin...

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Jun

2015

Database news »

Over half of our item lists have now been entered in the Archives database. We have been able to use optical character recognition (OCR) software to...

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Jun

2015

Recent accessions »

The ANU Archives recently received a small collection of material from the estate of Miss Joan Duffield (1910-2014). The donation includes early...

Informal gathering of the Creative Arts Fellows 1978

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Jun

2015

50th anniversary of ANU Creative Arts Fellows »

The University recently celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the first Creative Arts fellows. The scheme was initiated by Dr HC Coombs and the...

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Jun

2015

Australian Centre on China in the world exhibition »

The exhibition 'China and ANU: Diplomats, Adventurers, Scholars' currently on show at the Australian Centre on China in the World on the ANU campus...

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Jun

2015

Eric Fry labour history scholarship »

The 2015 scholarship was awarded to Andrew DeMayo, a History Honours student at the University of Notre Dame Australia. The scholarship will enable...

Guests that attended the launch of The Naturalist and his 'Beautiful Islands'

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Jun

2015

Pacific events »

The Archives' current exhibition 'Writings from the Archives' features the archival collections of anthropologist Marie Reay and Charles Morris...

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Nov

2015

Disaster recovery »

On 20 October a truck carrying a large excavator smashed into the Parkes Way tunnel which runs underneath our Acton Underhill repository. It collided...

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Dec

2015