What is AMW?
The UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Program honours documentary heritage of significance for Australia and the world, and advocates for its preservation.
Thursday March 5th 2015
The AMW's latest inscription ceremony took place at the NSW State Library
Board for Anthropological Research Collections, 1923-1974
These collections document approximately 5500 Australian Indigenous people and the history of technology, instruments and methodology used in anthropological field survey research. They help to confirm identity for Native Title and Indigenous language and culture revival.
Keith Murdoch, The Gallipoli Letter 1915
This twenty-five page letter, written by journalist Keith Murdoch to his friend, Prime Minister Andrew Fisher, helped establish the notion of Gallipoli as both a disaster and a place of national sacrifice.
World War I Diaries Collection
The ‘European war collecting project’ was the first of its kind in Australia, and acquired 236 diary collections that reveal the voices, from all sections of Australian society, of those who served in World War I.