Here’s one for Valentine’s Day. This is an image from one of the (North) coastal photographic collections held at the University of New England and Regional Archives .
Tag Archives: University of New England and Regional Archives
Frosty Headstones (It’s better than OCR!)
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
From Uralla 1916 to Europe 2010 – Anzac Commemorations & New England
In 2010 there are very few Australians alive that can remember back to the first commemoration of ANZAC Day in 1916……
Old State – New States: New England and the New State Movement
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.
“This is all very silly” : An interesting start to a regional archives
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.