Capital history in the news
Remembering soldiers lost after the battle | On Remembrance Day this year a ceremony will be held in Charleroi, Belgium to commemorate Australian soldiers who died while they were waiting to be sent home at the end of the First World War. Belgian historian Claire Dujardian’s found out about these men when she discovered a set of bunk beds in her grandparents’ home in Charleroi had been slept in by two Queenslanders for months after the war.
Budget boost needed to save nations important tapes archive head says | National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) head Ian Mueller explains that for $50 million the NFSA could digitise its entire collection but alternatively if funding is not increased Australia will lose significant collections of its audio-visual heritage.
Hollywood on the Molonglo when Canberra almost got a real film studio | Archives ACT article about the 1981 proposal to develop a $35 million film studio complex in Canberra (present day Coombs) which was abandoned when a film investment taxation loophole was closed.
Former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam's residential history in Canberra | Canberra architect Tony Trobe of TT Architecture chats to Alan Roberts, one of the authors of 100 Canberra Houses: A Century of Capital Architecture about Gough Whitlam’s residential history in Canberra.
What's in the box the street tells story of David Warren | Article about the Street Theatre’s latest production Flight Memory which tells the interesting story of David Warren the Australian inventor behind the black box and the obstacles he faced in making it a reality.
Acknowledgement: The image above is of the No. 1. Corp Head Quarters at Charleroi, Belgium (1919). Australian soldiers stationed in Charleroi at the end of the First World War, like those pictured, will be remembered especially in Charleroi this Remembrance Day. The image comes from the State Library of Victoria and is out of copyright. See acknowledgement page for full details.
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