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June 9 is International Archives Day.
To celebrate we’re taking you behind the scenes at one of Canberra’s best kept secrets. The ANU Archives Acton Underhill repository houses more than 21 km of historic records dating back to the 1820s…
2018 Eric Fry Research Grant winner announced
Congratulations to Jack Crawford from the University of Adelaide, who has been awarded the Eric Fry Research Grant for 2018. Jack is researching the 1894 Shearers strike in New South Wales.
Brewers, barmaids and boozers
Tooth & Co. Ltd began in 1835, and continued as a major New South Wales industry leader for more than 150 years. From its early beginnings at the Kent Brewery on Parramatta Road in Sydney, Tooth…
Vietnamese graphic collection digitised
The Australian National University Archives has just completed digitising Professor David Marr’s unique collection of posters and other graphic material related to Vietnam and the Indochina conflict…
Oral history interviews with ACT union officials available online
Interviews conducted by the Canberra Region Branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History are now online. Ted Forbes, Peter O’Dea and Doug Carpenter, former Presidents of the…
Documents on University site plan digitised by ANU Archives
The ANU Archives has digitised an early National Capital Planning and Development Committee file about the University’s site in Acton. The file begins in July 1938 when Sir Robert Garran, as…
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 but it was not until 1988, when Paterson was in the…
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. This exhibition includes photographs and…
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 of Biography (ADB) only 210 (1.5%) of all entries…
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 Advocate (1917) and the Co-operator (1909 - 1917)…
