News
Annual lecture
In August the annual Archives lecture was delivered by Professor David Merrett, an eminent economic historian from the University of Melbourne, on the topic 'Whither business history?: Memory,…
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 with the roof of the tunnel and while causing…
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 Andrew to undertake research for his thesis on…
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 photographs of Mount Stromlo including the…
Pacific events
The Archives' current exhibition 'Writings from the Archives' features the archival collections of anthropologist Marie Reay and Charles Morris Woodford, the first British Commissioner to the Solomon…
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 first Fellows were Sidney Nolan and John Perceval who…
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 Archives Centre which were previously held in…
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 features documents and photographs from the…
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 good effect and then load large typed lists using…
2018 Eric Fry labour history scholarship
Are you doing honours or the equivalent in 2018? Are you interested in labour history and the records of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre? Would you be able to put $1,000.00 in cold hard cash to good…
