Posts Tagged Staff Picks

Regional Staff Pick [Camel train photograph, Broken Hill]

Posted on August 8, 2011 by

On a recent trip to Broken Hill I was fortunate enough to be able to interview Brian Tonkin from the Outback Archives about his favourite archive.

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Staff Pick [Food, Glorious Food! Following a tomato sauce recipe from the archives]

Posted on July 11, 2011 by

What I like about this archive is that it is a reminder of what life was like not too long ago. It was a time when people couldn’t dash off to the supermarket or hardware store and just buy what they needed for the home.

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Staff Picks [Captain Moonlight]

Posted on June 23, 2011 by

We went straight to the top for this staff pick and asked our Director, Alan Ventress, to select his favourite archive. Alan has chosen a group of archives relating to the gentleman bushranger, Captain Moonlight.

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Staff Picks [1870 Convict records disposal schedule]

Posted on May 26, 2010 by

My favourite archives are those which elucidate – what records were created, how they functioned, how they changed over time, if they were transferred to another agency…

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Staff Picks [Archives that literally saved my life]

Posted on March 24, 2010 by

…while every Archive is originally made for a sound administrative purpose, you can never predict what added value it might acquire in time…

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Staff Picks [Sydney 1866 - Cross dressing scandal or malicious libel?]

Posted on January 29, 2010 by

…This small group of documents shows how a relatively trivial incident came to the attention of the Colonial authorities in late June/early July 1866, and how it was promptly dealt with. The papers were duly filed by a clerk of the Colonial Secretary’s Office, and there they remained undisturbed for 120 years.

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