Archives are not Neutral

Creating neutral archives is an impossible task, given our cultural influences and the way those influences, structures and beliefs change over time
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Better looking, better searching – site updates

Part of our 2018 site improvements is keeping our images looking good and on their best behaviour. Here are some of the changes we’re making
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Convenient Fires & Floods

In our first ever podcast, we cover convenient fires and floods, often held responsible for missing Care Leaver records. But are natural disasters to blame for records not being where they should be?
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A moment from the International Conference on the History of Records and Archives

Tweets reporting back from the 8th International Conference on the History of Records and Archives, held at Monash University, May 28-30, 2018
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Rescuing the ‘fallen women’ of Tasmania

‘Female rescue homes’ were part of the female rescue movement, based on Evangelical Christian principles. In the nineteenth century, they aimed to reform – through prayer and hard work – ‘fallen women’.
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Site Survey

If you’re already here, spend a couple of minutes on our site improvement survey so we can make it even better when you come back
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Your records: What to expect

What to expect when accessing records about yourself
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A New Look, A New #blogJune

We’re celebrating our new look by posting every day this month for blogJune
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‘That’s what happened to me. It’s got to stop.’

“You’ve got to do something mate. Did you see it the other night? The bastards! It was brutal. That’s what happened to me. It’s got to stop.”
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Visualising #blogjune

tn_Piechart Rather than complete a traditional written summary of our #blogjune posts, I have visualised some of the interesting things from the month. During #blogjune the diversity of our authors and our posts increased and this first visualisation shows the amount of blog posts written by guest authors in comparison to authors from the Find & Connect web resource.
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