Stories from the Archives
Features
Launch of the Guide to Commonwealth Government Records about the Northern Territory
This guide written by Ted Ling brings together information about archival records created during the Commonwealth period of control over the Northern Territory which lasted between 1911 and 1979 and includes information about archives held at the Darwin, Brisbane and Canberra National Archives offices, and the Northern Territory Archives Service in Darwin and Alice Springs.
Being an Archivist in the Red Centre
There is in Central Australia a vibrant and dynamic community that is actively engaged in history, culture, the arts, and the environment, a community that is also passionate about doing its part in shaping the nation’s future.
When the NT News photograph editor Brad Fleet approched us to source photographs for their Centenary project “Then and Now: Celebrating the Northern Territory’s 1-in-a-100-year souvenir” newspaper lift-out, we saw it as an opportunity to make photographs from our collections available to the Northern Territory Community.
Meet our Volunteer Stuart Traynor
We would like to celebrate National Volunteers’ Week (9-16 May 2011) by getting you to meet our volunteer in Alice Springs, Stuart Traynor. Stuart came into the Northern Territory Archives Service Alice Springs office over two years ago and offered his services to work on a significant collection that was transferred to us from the Parks and Wildlife Service.
In late 1899 Police Inspector Paul Foelsche, based in Palmerston (now Darwin), anticipating a request for information from the Minister, gave instructions to Mounted Constable George H. Thompson to “report on the conditions of Aborigines and their relations to other nations”...
Unravelling a near century of history from the perspective of Northern Territory pastoralists and documenting the development of lobby groups aiming to advance and protect the interests of cattle producers, the records from the Northern Territory Cattlemen’s Association and its predecessors are of remarkable value.
In Di Morrisey’s story, archives are described as a place of excitement, a place where crucial discoveries are made.
"A Donga to call our own" or more tales from Tennant Creek or extreme archiving by Pat Jackson Queen of the Desert.
Why were we rigged up as if we were part of the forensic team on a crime show? Was this extreme archiving, NT style, albeit without crocodiles or cane-toads involved?
New acquisitions
The Archivist, Collection Management, provides details of donations recently registered into our holdings
Research in Progress
We regularly ask Northern Territory Archives Service researchers to describe their projects for us. This shows the scope of research undertaken at our archives.
Please contact us if you need more details