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.
Category Archives: Regional Repositories
Women’s Fire Auxiliary (Wagga Wagga)
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.
Womens Australian National Service (WANS) in Wagga Wagga
It was not easy for women to break into the traditionally male dominated fields, so the WANS trained rigorously in many different areas.
Macquarie 2010: the search for the Macquarie Pier Foundation and Inscription Stone (Newcastle)
Follow the search for the Macquarie Pier Foundation and Inscription Stone laid in 1818 at the Newcastle breakwater.
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.
Working with stakeholders: A brief history of CSU Regional Archives Advisory Committe
Since 1995 Charles Sturt University Regional Archives has actively pursued a policy of engaging with its stakeholders through its Archives Advisory Committee.
“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.
New England remembers through the archives: World War I
…….look closely at the walking sticks, stiff poses and empty sleeves. Captured here is a reminder of the immense impact of World War One on young Australians.
Land record found! A stray returns from the “Land of the Beardies”
It is an interesting fact that many frontier locations like Wellingrove, lost population and government services as circumstances changed over time. Government records from this period sometimes strayed from official custody and some remain undiscovered to this day.