Recent Stories
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WA history
A life-long love for research and history meant Dr Rica Erickson was a regular at the State Library.
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Adam Trainer spoke with Christine Layton about the Library’s existing music photography collections, the process of adding to it and the exciting images included as part of this display.
Photographs and films
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ABC Radio discussion about Abraham “Izzy” Orloff, who captured Perth throughout the interwar years as a professional photographer.
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Dr Kate discusses the Emily Clifton diaries, a collection of 48 personal diaries covering the period 1906 – 1979.
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Discussing one of the key elements of the Creating Perth exhibition - an 1892 cyclorama of Perth.
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Damien Hassan, Senior Archivist at the State Records Office of WA, talks about Mr Hawke’s student record and why school records are important State archives.
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“He shall judge between the nations, and shall arbitrate for many people; they shall beat their swords into plowshares…” (from the Book of Isiah)
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This week Dr Kate discusses the landmark Westralian Aborigine newspaper – the first Aboriginal newspaper in Western Australia, which ran from early December 1953 until July 1957.
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Damien Hassan, Senior Archivist at the State Records Office picks up the story based on the government files held in the State archives collection.
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This week, Damien Hassan, Senior Archivist at the State Records Office, looks into the matter and how Russian spies had been sent to WA in preparation for war.
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Discussing early WA newspapers with a focus on The Fremantle Observer, Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal, first published in April 1831.
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The earthquake that shook the wheatbelt town of Meckering in 1968 was a terrifying event for those that experienced it and remains deeply etched in the memories of many 52 years after the event.