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Hear Professor Simon Ville's lecture Tales of the unexpected: why archival research remains important today.
You can now listen to the 2018 Archives Lecture, Tales of the unexpected: why archival research remains important today by Professor Simon Ville at https://tinyurl.com/y79tfz85
2018 annual lecture by Professor Simon Ville
The 2018 Archives annual lecture will be held in the McDonald Room in the Menzies Building at ANU on Tuesday 9 October from 5.30 to 7.00pm. See the events page for more information.
HB Selby records all described just in time for Science Week
The final collection of Selbys records in the Noel Butlin Archives Centre has been listed on our database Selbys specialised in the manufacture, import and supply of scientific instruments,…
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…
