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Photo: Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid with Maie Barrow, Reet Simmul at the Archive, Sydney 2018.
The Memory of the World Register is maintained by UNESCO as a record of documents, books and other records of enduring worth for the world. It is a parallel register to the World Heritage Register of Places. The Australian section of the Register includes records such as the convict records held in the NSW, West Australian and Tasmanian Archives, the Endeavour journal of Captain James Cook, and the First Fleet journals. A major entry on the Register is ‘Migration Voices’, […]
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Our latest acquisition may or may not have arrived via an International Book Fair in Bologna. 🤷♀ 🇮🇹 🌏 Sydney based, Australian author Nat Amoore‘s book was acquired by the Estonian Publisher Eesti Raamat and is now available in Estonian!!! “Secrets of a Schoolyard Millionaire“ is the hilarious story of one bag of cash, two best friends and a whole lot of trouble. Titled „Koolihoovi miljonäri saladused“, the book is available from the main Estonian book stores including Rahva Raamat […]
As well as acting as chair of the Estonian Archives in Australia, Dr Terry Kass is a practising professional historian. At the recent Annual General Meeting of the Australian Society of Archivists on 18 September 2020, his recent publication, Unlocking land: A guide to Crown Land Records held at State Archives NSW received an award as the best finding aid to an archival collection held in an Australian institution published in 2019. The guide has been well received within the […]
Two years ago today, the President of Estonia, Kersti Kaljulaid, visited the Estonian Archives in Australia at the Sydney Estonian House. Archivists Maie Barrow and Reet Simmul introduced the collection and showed off some of the treasures in the Archive. The President praised the important work of the volunteers in collecting and preserving the history of the Estonians in Australia and showed great interest in the collection The index cards of the prewar Consulate hold information about the early Estonian […]
