ACMI, THE AUSTRALIAN CENTRE OF THE MOVING IMAGE, OF COURSE COLLECTS EPHEMERA AND OTHER COLLECTABLES. On display if you visit the cinemas are some installations commissioned by ACMI for Edie … [Read more...]
Australian trademarks and icons – a talk
TOMORROW, Sunday 18 May 2025 at 2pm, Mimmo Cozzolino, ESA member and author of Symbols of Australia will give a presentation at the Richmond, Burnley and Cremorne Historical Society. Where: … [Read more...]
Rare Book Week talks Tuesday 29 July 2025
Hoarder or historian? Is our history in a drawer, a scrapbook, or a curated collection? I, Mandy Bede, will be taking up one of my last ESA president activities on 29 July 2025. My talk … [Read more...]
Save the date then symposium
SAVE THE DATE - 12 JULY 2025, THE 2025 SYMPOSIUM - AN AFTERNOON OF TALKING ABOUT EPHEMERA - WITH SLIDE SHOWS and the traditional delicious afternoon tea. (All our visuals are from last year's terrific … [Read more...]
PHOTORIA: AUSTRALIAN WOMEN BEHIND THE LENS 1850 to 1950
SALLY JACKSON SAYS: Collecting has only just come into my life since around 2018. I was working at the National Film and Sound Archive as the Film Curator, when a colleague, Jennifer Coombes, was … [Read more...]