Archive for the Regional Repositories Category

Novacastrians to the rescue – valuable school records preserved

Posted on November 7, 2011 by

Two weeks ago I was lucky enough to attend a morning tea at Newcastle Council Chambers at which a full set of Admission registers from Newcastle Girls High School and 2 additional Admission registers from Newcastle Boys High School were handed over to State Records NSW. They will be be stored at the Regional Repository [...]

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Rural Burials – Mysteries in Stone

Posted on May 16, 2011 by

“Bullock Driver – Died 1839″ is buried in a family cemetary on Wellington Vale, a pastoral run, near Deepwater. I would love to put a name to this man who has been certainly well cared for in death by a family who did not even know his name.

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Building databases & communicating with IT – An interview with Jillian Kohlhagen from CSU Regional Archives

Posted on April 14, 2011 by

On my recent trip to Wagga Wagga to visit Charles Sturt University Regional Archives I was lucky enough to catch up with Jillian Kohlhagen, Collection Management Archivist, to discuss the recent upgrade of their Archives Management databases.

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University of Newcastle’s 50th plans – Towards UoN50 wants your story

Posted on March 17, 2011 by

As we approach our 50th anniversary in 2015 we want to work with students, staff, alumni, volunteer and support groups, and the community who have all had a hand in shaping the institution.

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A visit and a chat with the Manager of Charles Sturt University Regional Archives

Posted on March 3, 2011 by

Last Wednesday, Wayne Doubleday, Manager CSU Regional Archives and University Art Collection visited State Records at Kingswood to talk ‘archives’.

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Frosty Headstones (It’s better than OCR!)

Posted on September 8, 2010 by

A particularly chilly night set a thick frost across the region. Ice crystals form on solid surfaces like cars and footpaths. Our hardy researcher walked out to see the sights and happened past some rural graves with engraved sandstone slabs

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Macquarie Pier Plaque Unveiled

Posted on September 3, 2010 by

The Coal River Working Party has assembled an archaeological ‘Time Team’ team with the professional expertise drawn across Government, Business and community to re-discover the Macquarie Pier Foundation Stone.

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On the Hunt for the Lost Threlkeld Manuscript

Posted on June 30, 2010 by

An original manuscript Journal belonging to the late Reverend Lancelot Threlkeld, missionary to the Aborigines in the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie areas in the 1820s onward has been digitised and uploaded to the University of Newcastle’s Virtual Sourcebook for Aboriginal Studies in the Hunter Region.

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Women’s Fire Auxiliary (Wagga Wagga)

Posted on June 7, 2010 by

The value of auxiliary fire fighters had been proved where air raids had ravaged overseas countries and the Wagga Wagga WFA spent three months doing their course of fire fighting.

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Womens Australian National Service (WANS) in Wagga Wagga

Posted on March 11, 2010 by

It was not easy for women to break into the traditionally male dominated fields, so the WANS trained rigorously in many different areas.

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Macquarie 2010: the search for the Macquarie Pier Foundation and Inscription Stone (Newcastle)

Posted on March 8, 2010 by

Follow the search for the Macquarie Pier Foundation and Inscription Stone laid in 1818 at the Newcastle breakwater.

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Old State – New States: New England and the New State Movement

Posted on February 17, 2010 by

The residents of rural New South Wales have for generations maintained an uneasy relationship with the capital city. A long standing joke in the bush was that the initials N.S.W. stood for Newcastle, Sydney and Wollongong.

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Working with stakeholders: A brief history of CSU Regional Archives Advisory Committe

Posted on January 16, 2010 by

Since 1995 Charles Sturt University Regional Archives has actively pursued a policy of engaging with its stakeholders through its Archives Advisory Committee.

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“This is all very silly” : An interesting start to a regional archives

Posted on December 21, 2009 by

Only a few years previously during World War Two, Armidale was the chosen location for storing material held by the Mitchell Library. To argue within five years that the same locality could not be trusted to manage government records inflamed local sensitivities.

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