‘Confused heaps’ and ‘systematic order’: Keeping records in 19th-century NSW
From the pleas of public servants for more desk space, to intricate architectural plans detailing shelving, pigeonholes and presses, this webinar examines how records and the work of their keepers was organised and explore the material world of those ‘charged with the arrangement and care of Records’.
This webinar was in celebration of International Archives Day, which uncovers how official records were created, kept and carefully (and sometimes not so carefully) stored in 19th–century NSW.
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