Past events

70 Years of the Australian National University

70 years of the Australian National University »

Mon 1 Aug 2016 – Wed 1 Feb 2017
To celebrate the 70th birthday of The Australian National University (ANU), the ANU Archives has put together an exhibition of documents and...
Did the Grim Reaper win? 2016 Annual Archives Lecture

2016 Phil Carswell OAM: Did the Grim Reaper win? »

Tue 25 Oct 2016
You can watch the lecture online on the ANU YouTube channel. About the lecture The early history of HIV/AIDS in Australia was marked with...

Living, working and playing at Mt Stromlo »

Sun 1 May – Sat 16 Jul 2016
Mt Stromlo Observatory is known for its outstanding research into astronomy and astrophysics, including the work of Nobel Prize winner and current...
N115-Box 530 Mates Ltd, Albury - window display, crockery, 1950

High street dreams »

Tue 1 Sep – Wed 2 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...
Portrait of a Solomon Islands man wearing a large clock ear ornament.

Writings from the archives »

Mon 23 Mar – Tue 1 Sep 2015
The archival collections of anthropologist Marie Reay and first British Commissioner to the Solomon Islands, Charles Morris Woodford, are the...
Whither business history? Memory, message and meaning

2015 Professor David Merrett: Whither business history? Memory, message and meaning »

Tue 11 Aug 2015
You can watch the lecture online on the ANU YouTube channel. About the lecture Professor David Merrett, the University of Melbourne explores the...
Photograph of Mount Stromlo Observatory held in the ANU Archives collection

Treasures of the ANU Archives »

Tue 6 May 2014 – Sat 2 May 2015
The Treasures of the ANU Archives exhibition will highlight historic documents, photographs, maps, and film from the ANU Archives extensive...
The cover of Wives and Wanderers, depicting a native New Guinea woman tending to her pigs.

Wives and wanderers in a New Guinea highlands society »

Fri 13 Mar – Sat 14 Mar 2015
Women's lives in the Waghi Valley Marie Olive Reay Edited by Francesca Merlan, with additional introduction by Marilyn Strathern Wives and Wanderers...
The Naturalist and his 'Beautiful Islands'.  Charles Morris Woodford in the Western Pacific

The Naturalist and his 'Beautiful Islands' »

Thu 12 Mar – Fri 13 Mar 2015
Charles Morris Woodford in the Western Pacific David Russell Lawrence Charles Morris Woodford devoted his working life to pursuing this dream,...
13th annual ANU Archives lecture: The Real War? Battles on the Australian home front 1914–19

2014 Professor Joan Beaumont: The Real War? Battles on the Australian home front 1914–19 »

Tue 23 Sep 2014
You can watch the lecture online on the ANU YouTube channel. If you read only one book about Australia's experience of World War I... make it...

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