Rare Book Week 29 June to 8 July

VIC Branch Newsletter Report by VIC Branch Committee JUNE 2018 22 JUNE 2018

THIS ISSUE CONTAINS: • Notice of ASA VIC seminar • Passing the torch, illuminating possibilities: Why rare books matter - Dr Anna Welch, History of the Book Collection, State Library • Rare books at the museum - Gemma Steele, Librarian, • Creative solutions to challenges and misconceptions: Rare Books & Special Collections at the University of Sydney Library - Julie Sommerfeldt • “All you Book-loving Chubbies, Come - gather round me” (Crawhall alphabet book) - Dr Melanie Wood, Philip Robinson Library, Newcastle University, UK • New grad chat with Suzy Goss • Archives and Imperialism seminar report • Upcoming events Cropped image: Persian manuscripts on display in the World of the Book exhibition from October 2017 to October 2018 / Source: State • VIC Branch Information Library of Victoria NOTICE OF ASA VIC SEMINAR JULY 2018 CURATING THE COLONY EXHIBITIONS AT NGV

Date Wednesday 4 July 2018 Time Drinks and nibbles from 5pm, followed by seminar from 5:30pm, seminar close at 6:30pm Cost $5 donation to cover food, drinks and room hire. If you are a student, retired, or on a low income, please still attend and contribute what you

can. Cropped image: Colony: Frontier Wars installation / Photographer: Eugene Hyland / Source: National Gallery Venue Multipurpose Room 1, Kathleen Syme Library and Community Centre,of Victoria 251 Faraday Street, Carlton

Seminar Myles Russell-Cook, Curator of Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Victoria, discusses Colony, two complementary exhibitions that explore ’s complex colonial past and the art that emerged during and in response to the period.

Presented concurrently, these two exhibitions, Colony: Australia 1770-1861 and Colony: Frontier Wars, ofer parrallel experiences of the settlement of Australia.

RSVP https://www.archivists.org.au/events/event/victorian-branch-seminar-curating-the-colony-exhibitions-at-ngv

VIC Branch Meetings/Seminars First Wednesday of every month (except January, regional and special events). Passing the torch, illuminating possibilities: Why rare books matter Dr Anna Welch, Information Ofcer, History of the Book Collection,

Cropped image: Anna Welch introducing the World of the Book exhibition to newCardigan members, Dome Galleries, State Library Victoria, 12 March 2016 / Photographer: Nik McGrath Like Borges, I too imagine paradise as a kind of library. I have been a reader from a young age, and, since learning to read, I have done so voraciously and with delight. Each book seems to me a key unlocking the door to a time and place beyond the small sphere of my own life. In books the dead live on, their voices resounding across the millennia.

I consider the academic discipline of writing history to be in some measure an imaginative and empathetic exercise: it involves listening to these voices and weaving - from both their words and their silences - narratives that draw out meaning and coherence from the mass of subjective individual experiences. To study and write history is to empathise with people in diverse times and places, and to be a historian is to be the community’s memory: to remember what would otherwise be forgotten, whether by design or accident, and to help society to learn from the remembrance.

My belief in the importance of this intellectual endeavour, combined with my love for the physicality of books - their material character, as well as their intellectual and aesthetic content - led me to a doctoral thesis about the production and use of illuminated manuscripts among the medieval Franciscan Order, and then (slowly, by inches) into a role as a book historian and curator in the Rare Book Collection at State Library Victoria (SLV). Continues on page 3 Continues from page 2 The word ‘curator’ derives from the Latin for ‘care’; my role is to care for both the collections and for the community for whom the Library holds this collection in trust. Rare book curators work to ensure that the books survive into the future as an essential record of human thought, the building blocks from which we make and remake society: this endeavour is a torch passed along the generations. There are three functions essential to achieving that end: preserving the collection (working closely with specialist book conservators), acquiring new material for the collection (ensuring its ongoing relevance in a changing community), and facilitating public access to the collection, including assisting in its interpretation.

One of the things I love most about the Rare Books Collection at SLV is its breadth: it reaches from a 4000-year-old Sumerian cuneiform tablet to zines made in Melbourne in 2018. Age and market value are often indicators of rarity, when it comes to books, but not always: scarcity plays a role too, and for that reason, Australian pulp fction from the 1950s sits comfortably alongside the 1632 Second Folio of Shakespeare’s plays on the shelves of our Rare Books Collection.

Part of working in a rare books collection is guessing what material being produced today will be signifcant for future generations, and asking: what stories about ourselves do we want to tell the future through this collection? Acquisitions are selected carefully in order to enrich the collection in thoughtful and sustainable ways. For example, in 2012 at the time of the Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond exhibition at SLV, with the generous assistance of public fundraising, we purchased a 16th-century manuscript copy of the Khamsa (‘quintet’) of classic Persian stories by the 12-century Persian poet Nizami of Ganja and a 19th-century manuscript copy of the Tutinama (‘Book of the parrot’), an ancient Sanskrit poem translated into Persion c.1335 by the physician and Suf mystic Ziya’ all-Din Nakhshabi for the Indian court. You can see both these manuscripts on display in World of the Book until 30 September 2018. These beautiful manuscripts help the State Collection to represent more adequately cultures that the nineteenth-century Anglo-centric, Christian founders of this library did not prioritise, which are of course present in our modern Victorian community.

Many people’s access to the collection takes place directly in the form of individuals or groups visiting the library; others may consult rare books from the collection remotely in digital form. I work closely with readers to locate the material of most relevance to their interests and questions, from school students to professional academics and everyone in between. Melbourne’s annual Rare Book Week program of free talks and events is also a wonderful opportunity to delve into the diverse strengths of this rich and varied collection. This year, the SLV program includes talks about the MV Anderson Chess Collection, the medieval art of dying (ars moriendi), this history of moveable books, crime and punishment in Victorian-era Melbourne, and the latest acquisitions in our collection of artists’ books, as well as a paper engineering workshop for children aged 5 to 12.

For yet others, access to the collection comes about indirectly, a process of discovery through exhibitions and news media, both print and digital. Curating the World of the Book exhibition with Des Cowley, manager of the Rare Books Collection, is a joy, pure and simple. The exhibition has been running since 2005, with a complete change of content each year: between 250 and 300 items from the collection are on display in each iteration, dating from 2000 BCE to 2018. It is a celebration of both the richness of the SLV collection and of the importance of written culture, especially books.

Like time-travel portals, books allow us to connect with past and future - to learn from the past, and to share our dreams and ideas with future generations. Importantly, it gives library visitors a chance to connect with the Rare Books Collection in a spontaneous and creative way, sparking ideas and projects that may otherwise never have leapt into being. As well as selecting the material for the exhibition and writing the labels, I deliver regular curatorial talks in the gallery for the Library’s Dome At Dusk series and share highlights from the exhibition (and the Rare Books Collection more broadly) through my Instagram account, @bibliovita. In the twenty-frst century, collection access and interpretation takes place in innovative as well as traditional modes.

We live in a challenging, at times overwhelming global environment. To borrow a closing sentiment from Borges’ protégé, Alberto Manguel, “[b]ooks may not change our sufering, books may not protect us from evil, books may not tell us what is good or what is beautiful, and they will certainly not shield us from the common fate of the grave. But books grant us myriad possibilities: the possibility of change, the possibility of illumination” (Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night, Toronto, AA Knopf Canada, 2006).

ASA NSW Branch Newsletter – August 2016 3 Gemma Steele in the Museums Victoria Library reading room, , 2016 / Photographer: Hayley Webster / Source: Museums Victoria Gemma Steele, Librarian, Museums Victoria Rare books at the museum

The Museums Victoria Library was frst established in the 1850s as a working collection for curators. Over its 160- year history the library has evolved into one of the best collections of natural history books and journals in the country.

Part of my work as a librarian at Museums Victoria involves handling, interpreting and describing, and occasionally exhibiting a modest collection of unique, rare, and historically signifcant items that make up the library’s Rare Book Collection.

The Rare Book Collection, which comprises over 1,000 titles or 3,000 volumes, is housed separately from the general collection for the purposes of security and risk management. We are lucky to have state-of-the-art storage for our rare books, resulting from a recent library collection move, we have upgraded storage conditions for the collection.

The museum’s frst director, Frederick McCoy invested a considerable sum in establishing the library in the 1850s and 1860s as a working collection for the frst curators. Much of this material which was purchased by McCoy now forms the basis of the Rare Book Collection.

The collection was continually developed until 1906 when the museum became co-located with the State Library Victoria and the need to purchase independently lessened. While the library does not actively collect rare books and other rare material, as one of Australia’s oldest libraries it has been developed as a substantial collection over time. As the library collections are relatively low-access, overall the collection is in very good condition.

The Museums Victoria Library has been involved in Melbourne Rare Book Week (MRBW) since 2013, and for us this is a fantastic opportunity to share our collections and knowledge with the public, and also to promote our library service.

The 10-day program of events, exhibitions and lectures held annually is running from 29 June - 8 July this year.

A host of libraries, archives, museums, societies and booksellers take part in MRBW, and attending events is a great ASA NSW Branch Newsletter – August 2016 4 Continues on page 5 Continues from page 4

Cropped image: Plate 102, Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio, Albertus Seba, 1734-65 / Source: Museums Victoria opportunity for free professional development as well as a fantastic networking opportunity. The creativity and diversity of the programming has been extremely inspiring. For those who are able I would highly recommend attending some of the free events held during MRBW.

This year we are running a talk entitled Surveying the Rare Book Collection, which focuses on the conservation of the library collection. From 2012 to 2016 an in-depth conservation survey was conducted of the Museum’s Rare Book Collection, and here our paper conservator will discuss the survey, results, key learnings, and how the fndings can be used to improve collection care.

Following the talk, I will also be displaying some of the treasures of our Rare Book Collection, which includes the only copy of Albertus Seba’s Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio (1734-65) held in Australian libraries. This work runs to an extensive four folio tomes, comprising 446 copperplate engravings with accompanying descriptions.

Albertus Seba was an apothecary living in Amsterdam in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, when the city was a major trading centre. Seba gained familiarity with natural specimens through his profession, and made the most of his interactions providing medical treatment to sailors and traders returning from long sea voyages to obtain specimens for his ‘cabinet of curiosities’. Seba was known to exchange his services as an apothecary for specimens. His collection became famous throughout Europe, and was visited by many prominent naturalists of the day. In 1717 he sold his collection to Peter the Great, Czar of Russia. With the enthusiasm of a true collector, Seba immediately set about establishing a second, even larger collection. This collection formed the basis of Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio, or Seba’s Thesaurus, as it is often referred. In essence, this work is a catalogue of Seba’s collections.

The Thesaurus contains text written by Seba in consultation with scientists of the time. Seba made an attempt to further scientifc knowledge, for instance by arranging the descriptions into distinct categories. However, as can be seen by the fantastical quality of some of the illustrations, he was still highly infuenced by a ‘cabinet of curiosity’ style approach to the natural world. In fact, in his willingness to believe in the weird and wonderful, Seba was the victim of a famous hoax! The seven-headed hydra featured in his thesaurus was later proved to be parts of weasels and snakes sewn together.

After Seba died in 1736, his heirs auctioned of his collection in order to continue funding the publication of this work. It is thought that some of the auctioned specimens are now held in Museums Victoria’s Marine Invertebrate Collections. The Museums Victoria Library is lucky to hold two sets of Seba’s Thesaurus, both acquired by Frederick McCoy in 1859. One set is black and white, as the work was when originally printed. The other set has been subsequently hand-coloured, and features some curious interpretations, such as teal fngernails on an opposum.

One of the volumes has been digitised and is available via the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). Other institutions, such as the Smithsonian, have added their own digital copies, which has allowed us to compare hand-colouring and binding. The opposum’s teal nails, which we originally thought to have been a fight of fancy on behalf of the colourist, are in fact consistent across the coloured copies available in BHL. ASA NSW Branch Newsletter – August 2016 5 A frst-edition 1687 copy of Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica, with contemporary annotation by several hands / Source: Call number Wing N1048, University of Sydney Library Julie Sommerfeldt, Manager Rare Books and Special Collections, University Library, University of Sydney Creative solutions to challenges and misconceptions: Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of Sydney Library

As Manager of Rare Books and Special Collections (RBSC) at the University of Sydney Library, I often get asked what the oldest item in our collection is, what the most recent thing we’ve acquired is, the most popular, etc. (you get the idea)! Whilst I can answer these questions (a Sumerian cuneiform clay cone dating from 2350 B.C.; a rare, original poster from the very frst Mardi Gras in Sydney in 1978; and a hand-annotated frst edition copy of Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathmatica, printed in 1687), they fail to really convey the breadth and depth of the collections, and how we are continually looking to initiate and improve ways to promote and use them. I have found that, since taking up my position in 2016, one of my biggest challenges has been fnding ways to raise the profle of these rich and wonderful collections. Even within our own University community, many students do not know much about RBSC, and the stereotypes persist, that these collections are somehow elitist and of-limits to all but the most serious PhD researchers. In fact, Rare Books and Special Collections is open to everyone - professional and academic staf, students, alumni, and the general public, and we undertake a variety of activities, both traditional and innovative, to support our current users now, anticipate their changing future needs, and connect with and engage new users.

To break down common misconceptions and engage with the broader University community, we have initiated a range of outreach activities, from taking tours through RBSC during O-week, to a lunchtime lecture series entitled Rare Bites, where we invite academics and students to select an item from our collections and give an informal half hour talk, with the item itself out on display. Videos of Rare Bites are available on the Library’s YouTube channel. Last year, we even held a competition, Rare Brews, challenging members of our University community to home brew beer using historical recipes from our collections. Ernest young men with signifcant facial hair suddenly became the fastest growing demographic using Rare Books and Special Collections, and the accompanying exhibition Rare Brews: The History and Craft of Home Brewing was extremelyASA NSW Branch popular! Newsletter – August 2016 Continues on page 7 6 Continues from page 6

Cropped image: Clay cylinder inscribed to record the building of the temple E-Ninnû, shrine of the patron god Ningirsu, 2350 B.C. / Source: Call number Add.Ms. 328, University of Sydney Library Returning to more traditional uses of Library collections, as the focus of University Libraries worldwide is increasingly on digital collections and services, rare and special collections in these institutions face unique challenges in fnding ways to efectively support teaching, learning and research. How can we maintain, and increase the relevance of these collections in this new, volatile and ever-changing digital environment? Paradoxically, the physical nature or materiality of rare and special collections is not just the source of these challenges, but also, through their intrinsic uniqueness, a source of solutions. Object-based learning (OBL) is increasingly being adopted within higher education context internationally, drawing on pedagogies of active and experiential learning. Recent research at University College London (UCL) in the UK suggests OBL provides opportunities for deepening engagement with the subject matter and enhancing students’ lateral thinking and problem solving skills, personal meaning-making and the long-term retention of ideas.

In RBSC, we facilitate use of our collections directly in small classes, and are experimenting with various digital technologies to create tools to complement and enhance our exhibitions, including interactive digital experiences, where a user can click on several items within an exhibition to access enhanced content. In future we hope to broaden this extra material to include students responding to the exhibition material and themes. A new Digital Asset Management System currently being implemented within the Library will expand the research potential and value of our special collections through the creation of virtual collections of digitised material. We advertise internships each year for Masters students from various programs within the University of Sydney (including Museum and Heritage Studies, and Art Curation) and other institutions to undertake projects which involve working directly with a chosen collection in RBSC. In Semester 2 this year, we are holding an inaugural Printer in Residence program, inviting printers and book artists to apply for an 8-week residency, using our nineteenth-century Albion printing press, with the residency supported directly by use of our collecitons.

And so, using tried and true methods and experimenting with the new and unknown, little by little, in RBSC, we do our best to engage people with our rich and diverse collections. Historic misconceptions are broken down, perceptions are adjusted and meaningful connections are made between the treasures and lesser-known gems within RBSC, and users of all kinds from within the University of Sydney and beyond.

‘Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind’ - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote. ASA NSW Branch Newsletter – August 2016 7 Cropped image: Page 15 from J Crawhall, Old Aunt Elspa’s ABC, 1884 / Source: Newcastle University Library Crawhall (Joseph II) Collection, Crawhall 50 Dr Melanie Wood, Special Collections Librarian, Philip Robinson Library, Newcastle University, UK “All you Book-loving Chubbies, Come - gather round me” (Crawhall alphabet book)

Although looking after more than 50 Rare Book Collections is less glamorour than people perceive it to be (I soon learned never to wear my ‘Sunday best’), it feels like a privilege and continues to excite me after 15 years. My role permits intimate contact with collections and I have input into decisions, objectives and developing staf as well as creating exhibitions, teaching, writing features and engaging with researchers. Sometimes, being a lone rare books librarian in a team of archivists, I feel isolated but that is what also gives me a greater degree of autonomy and less competition for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) opportunities. We are all friends and colleagues at the end of the day.

Our print collections start with leaves from the Gutenberg Bible and the Chronicles of printed by William Caxton (1480). However, it is our cheap popular print (chapbooks, broadsides, English Civil War tracts and Victorian books in parts) to which I am most drawn; not the oldest or even the fnest books/manuscripts that we hold.

In recent years, we have developed our children’s literature holdings. We work closely with the Children’s Literature Unit (Newcastle University) and in partnership with Seven Stories: the National Centre for Children’s Books. The collections support teaching and research within the University and have inspirted education projects with local schools: A North East ABC and Once Upon a Time: Fairy Tales. For that reason, I have chosen to highlight two of our children’s books.

We recently added Catherine Susan and Me’s coming out to our Rare Books Collection, written and illustrated by Kathleen Ainslie (London: Castell Brothers Ltd.; New York: Frederick A. Stokes, c.1906). Ainslie was an illustrator, active 1900-1911. She is best-known for her series of children’s books based on jointed Dutch peg dolls which were popular during the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries (Florence Kate Upton’s The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwogg had been published in 1895). I love the style of illustration and the frivolity of the story but, even more, I like how the lives of the dolls refect the latest trends, fashions and innovations of the period. Continues on page 9 ASA NSW Branch Newsletter – August 2016 8 Continues from page 8

Cropped image: Front cover from K Ainsley, Catherine Susan and Me’s coming out, c.1906 / Source: Newcastle University Library, Rare Books Collection, RB 823.912 AIN Catherine Susan and Maria are weary of household chores so they announce that they are ‘coming out’. There coming out is both in the sense of venturing on a trip to London and of being presented to society. Of course, such a momentous occasion requires clothes and the dolls have nothing appropriate to wear. Dutch peg dolls were sold undressed and children made clothes from scraps of cloth. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, the female silhouette changed rapidly and, by the early twentieth century, styles, designs and fabrics from other cultures had become more infuential in fashion. In the haberdashery store, the dolls argue about whether to wear muslin or white satin, both of which were stylish at the time. In the 1880s and 1890s, small hats ornamented with birds, feathers and artifcial fowers were fashionable. The mischievous dolls chase hens and then secure the feathers to their heads with hammer and nails!

Catherine Susan and Maria squeeze into a car and fnd a warm welcome in London. They are invited to attend a ball - in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, numerous balls were held for members of ‘high society’. Debutante balls were occasions at which young women ‘came out’. Fans were essential: not just part of the outft but a form of non-verbal communication conveying rejection (a closed fan), interest (an open fan) or excitement (a futtering fan). Catherine Susan isn’t shy and sits with her fan open and, later, dances with a gentleman she tells everyone was a prince.

The dolls go to a polo match. Polo had been imported to England in the 1860s, from India, and its popularity grew in the late- nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Although the dolls exclaim at how fast the horses gallop, British polo was slower and more methodical than the polo played in Manipur. They also try their hands at punting. Punting boats were frst built for pleasure in England in the 1860s. Pleasure punting probably started on the River Thames but became increasingly popular in the early 1900s.

In the evening, they go to the theatre - although Maria doesn’t remember what they saw, it looks as though it was Romeo and Juliet. Victorian productions of Shakespeare’s plays often prioritised ‘authentic’ costumes and scenery and to be a bona fde actor/actress, like Henry Irving (1838-1905) or Ellen Terry (1847-1928), was to be a great Shakespearean actor. By the end of the book, the dolls are exhausted.

Within the Crawhall (Joseph II) Collection, is Old Aunt Elspa’s ABC (London: Field & Tuer, 1884), named for Crawhall’s daughter, Elspeth. Joseph Crawhall II (1821-1896) was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, into a rope-making family. Many of the family members had artistic talents and Joseph showcased his through chopbook revivals, watercolour sketches and ASA NSW Branch Newsletter – August 2016 9 Continues on page 10 Continues from page 9 advertisements. He engraved box wood blocks and hand-coloured the pulls himself.

Crawhall had an irreverent sense of humour, much of it based on his observations of Tyneside and Nothumbrian life. He liked to caricature and worked himself and family members into vignettes and sketches. Certainly, family jokes and playful wood- engravings characterise Old Aunt Elspa’s ABC. The book pays homage to the earlier traditions of children’s instruction books: the chapbooks, alphabet books and battledores from which children (and some adults) learned to read and pronounce. Bucking conventional behaviour, Crawhall’s are no ordinary rhymes:

a Was an Archer who shot at a Frog. b Was a Butcher who had a big Dog. Tuts! These are the Rhymes That our Grandmothers knew; They’re far too old-fashioned: Let’s have something new.

The “something new” includes: jumbles, jam and jelly; keepsake and kiss; and noisy, naughty, nest, nursery and nap.

Making our collections available to as wide an audience as possible makes the job worthwhile. Having a passion for ‘old books’ means sharing them and, through sharing, learning more about them every day.

Suzy Goss, ASA member and new graduate New grad chat with Suzy Goss: self-care part 2

There is more to self-care than indulgent escapism. It’s the cornerstone of maintaining the mental and physical health that keeps you resilient and happy. It’s important whether you are studying, working, or looking for work and especially important in periods of stress and change.

So, what is self-care if it isn’t a main-pedi or a trip to Bali?

I’d categorise it like this: • physical (health and well-being, food and drink, clothing, exercise) • emotional (patterns and rhythms, moods, emotions, triggers) • fnancial (superannuation, debt, generosity, savings, ‘having enough’) • relational (boundaries, family, friends and colleagues, love, self-worth) • spatial (your physical space, commute distance, neighbourhood) • spiritual (sense of purpose, connection, worship)

ASA NSW Branch Newsletter – August 2016 10 Self-care is a constant work in progress. With practice you’ll be able to recognise when things are going a bit wobbly and you’ll have the ability to fnd your balance again. Having a glass of wine or going on eBay can be good distractions, but it’s better to develop a habit that you don’t need to recover from afterwards! It can take a while to develop a tool kit that works for you.

Doing some stretches in the morning can help with both the physicality of many archives jobs as well as the agony of sitting at a computer for hours on end.

Meditation and yoga are well-known self-care tools but they might not suit you. You could try ten minutes of legs-up-the-wall while listening to alpha-wave binaural beats for a quick fx. Stay hydrated, eat more vegetables, or at least go for the veggie pizza over the meat-lovers sometimes.

Above all, take a moment to ask yourself if you’re feeling okay, and if not, slip of for a cuppa when you can and have a chat to a trusted friend about fnding balance again.

If you are a new grad, send me feedback on topics you would like to chat about - contact me on [email protected] or @TrulySuzy on Twitter.

Cropped image: James Lowry presenting Archives and Imperialism seminar, RMIT University Swanston Street Campus, 29 May 2018 / Photographer: Nicola Laurent Imogen Telfer, ASA VIC Branch Secretary Archives and Imperialism seminar report

On the 29th of May, members and friends of the ASA VIC Branch gathered with excitement to hear from James Lowry, lecturer at the Liverpool University Centre for Archive Studies and Chair of the Association of Commonwealth Archivists and Records Managers (ACARM).

Lowry spoke on British colonial recordkeeping and how that has afected records and archives in the colonial aftermath, particularly the removal of records from the countries of origin and how to now return them. Attendees heard how eforts to repatriate displaced records were complicated by policies at the point of decolonisation, with records to be withheld from incoming governments if they might embarrass the British or other governments, and by a lack of transparency (and/or honesty) around whether records had been physically destroyed or not.

Currently, Lowry and ACARM are working to repatriate the ‘Migrated Archives’, a particular collection of Kenyan and other colonies’ Government fles that the British Government only disclosed existed in 2011. Their position paper is available online: https://iaartsaa.fles.wordpress.com/2017/12/acarm-position-paper-migrated-archives-adopted-20171125.pdf. For more on the topic, the book Displaced Archives (edited by Lowry), was released last year.

ASA NSW Branch Newsletter – August 2016 11 Upcoming events Events at a Glance

28 June 2018 Foxcroft Lecture: Policing the Parisian book trade in the Age of SLV p12 Enlightenment 1 July Family Sundays: Koorie Stories and NAIDOC week ACMI p13 2 July Dark tales: Gothic traditions in children’s books and fairy tales MLS p13 20 April - 8 July Propaganda - a selection of posters from the Australian War Memorial MRPG p14 14 July July cardi party nC p14 15 March - 15 July Colony: Australia 1770-1861 / Frontier Wars NGV p15 17 July Caroline Chisholm’s letter and sketch, 15 Nov 1854 Old Treasury p15 Building 18 July The Intersection of Art and Historical Collections: First Peoples Women, MM p16 Creative Practice and the Museum 22 June - 20 August STREETFACE NAIDOC & p16 Strong Brother Strong Sister 28 July - 29 July OHM p17 29 July Frozen Improvisations: Exploring Keith Humble at the Grainger in the Grainger p17 1960s with Ensemble Density Museum Until 5 August Barangaroo Ngangamay IM p18 26 April - 8 August Vera Deakin’s World of Humanity RHSV p18 24 March - 19 August Eurovisions: Contemporary Art from the Goldberg Collection Heide Museum p19 of Modern Art 9 June - 7 October Above and Beyond SW p19 State Library Victoria 2018 Foxcroft Lecture: Policing the Parisian book trade in the Age of Enlightenment In the 2018 Foxcroft Lecture, Chief Curator at the Bibliothèque nationale de Date Thursday 28 June , Jean-Dominique Mellot, looks at police surveillance of the written word, the book trade and public opinion in Paris during the Age of Enlightenment. Time 6pm to 7:30pm

In the 17th century France, King Louis XIV empowered the police force to surveil Venue State Library Victoria and dictate what was written, printed and even said in public. In 1749, Joseph Village Roadshow d’Hémery, a young inspector in the book police - police du livre - began to Theatrette document his work. Entry 3 LaTrobe Street D’Hémery not only collected ofcial data for his fles, but also gathered information Melbourne from confdences, gossip, spying and questioning. These documents - some of which have now been published - illuminate a fascinating chapter in the social Cost Free history of the book.

For more information and to book, please visit: https://www.slv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/foxcroft-lecture-policing-parisian-book-trade-age-enlightenment

ASA NSW Branch Newsletter – August 2016 12 Upcoming events

Australian Centre for the Moving Image Family Sundays: Koorie Stories and NAIDOC week

Celebrate the launch of NAIDOC Week and explore the stories and art of South Date Sunday 1 July East Australia’s First Nations peoples. Time 10am to 4pm Yarn Strong Sister will be telling the stories of Bartja and Mayila and Yurri’s Venue ACMI birthday, then get crafty and creative with traditional ochre painting and necklace making activities. Flinders Street For more details please visit: Melbourne https://www.acmi.net.au/events/family-sundays-koorie-stories-and-naidoc-week/ Cost Free

Melbourne Library Service Dark tales: Gothic traditions in children’s books and fairy tales Date Monday 1 July From the macabre to the morbid, romance to horror, the Gothic tradition and Time 6:30pm to 7:30pm motifs in children’s books is strong. Venue North Melbourne Library An evening of stories from Gothic children’s books delving into the Gothic 66 Errol Street traditions contained in these stories. Adults only. North Melbourne

Part of Melbourne Rare Book Week. Cost Free

For more details and to book please visit: http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/community/libraries/whats-on/rare-book-week/pages/dark-tales.aspx

ASA NSW Branch Newsletter – August 2016 13 Upcoming events

Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery Propaganda - a selection of posters from the Australian War Memorial

Posters from across all of the major 20th century conficts and insights into the Dates 20 April - 8 July power of information graphics and the use of advertising and communication strategies in eliciting fear, loathing and calls to action. Venue Regional Gallery For more details please visit: Civic Reserve https://mprg.mornpen.vic.gov.au/Exhibitions/Current-exhibitions/Propaganda Dunns Road Mornington VIC 3931

Cost $0 - $4

newCardigan July cardi party

Artist Adrian Doyle will give a tour of his exhibition ‘You Are All The Same!’ - “In this exhibition I combine urban art techniques and place it in a fne art context. Date Saturday 14 July The composition and size have been carefully chosen to reference the scale of street art, becoming crowded and over loaded with blunt imagery and narrative. Time 2pm to 3pm This brutalisation or sensationalism, is an aesthetic that I have created that aligns itself with the street art movement.” Venue Dark Horse Experiment For more details and to book please visit: Harbour Town https://newcardigan.org/cardiparty-2018-07-melbourne-with-adrian-doyle/ 20-24 Wharf Street Docklands

Cost Free

ASA NSW Branch Newsletter – August 2016 14 Upcoming events

National Gallery of Victoria Colony: Australia 1770-1861 / Frontier Wars

Two complementary exhibitions that explore Australia’s complex colonial past and Dates 15 March - 15 July the art that emerged during and in response to this period. These exhibitions ofer two parallel experiences of the settlement of Australia. Venue NGV Australia Federation Square For more details and to book please visit: Cnr Flinders and https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/colony-australia-1770-1861/ Russell Street Melbourne

Cost $9 - $43

Old Treasury Building Caroline Chisholm’s letter and sketch, 15 Nov 1854

Date Tuesday 17 July A free talk about humanitarian Caroline Chisholm. Time 11am to 11:30pm On 15 November 1854 Chisholm campaigned to the Victorian government to Venue Old Treasury Building provide cheap and safe accommodation for diggers and their families on the 20 Spring Street roads to the goldfelds. She had toured the goldfelds and was horrifed by the East Melbourne conditions that men, women and children were living in.

Cost Free This record is on display courtesy of the Public Record Ofce Victoria.

For more details and to book please visit: http://www.oldtreasurybuilding.org.au/event/caroline-chisholms-letter-and-sketch-15-nov-1854/

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Melbourne Museum The Intersection of Art and Historical Collections: First Peoples Women, Creative Practice and the Museum

In honour of 2018 NAIDOC theme Because Of Her We Can we’re taking an Date Wednesday 18 July in-depth look into work created by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in our collection. Kimberley Moulton, Senior Curator, South-eastern Australia Time 5:30pm to 6:30pm Aboriginal Collections will speak on key works and discuss the role of historical Venue Melbourne Museum collections and the intersection of First Peoples contemporary art and creative 11 Nicholson Street cultural practice within the museum space. Carlton For details and to book please visit: https://museumsvictoria.com.au/melbournemuseum/whats-on/the-intersection-of-art-historical-collections/ Cost $0 - $12

City of Greater Geelong and Strong Brother Strong Sister STREETFACE NAIDOC

Dates 22 June - 20 August Scattered around Geelong streets is STREETFACE NAIDOC, a public arts project. Venue Various locations around 40 pictures have been chosen to be featured on 18 buildings around Geelong as Geelong part of celebrations for NAIDOC Week 8 - 25 July. Cost Free The Youth Development Unit at the City of Greater Geelong worked with young Aboriginal leaders from the Koorie Youth Group supported by Strong Brother Strong Sister to identify, photograph and interview those women in their lives that ‘Because of her, we can!’ Young photographer, Joshua Maxwell de Hoog photographed this project.

For more details please visit: https://www.geelongaustralia.com.au/events/calendar/item/8cd27b02d36cc22.aspx

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Open House Melbourne July program

This year’s Open House Melbourne weekend features over 220 sites. The month Dates 28 July - 29 July of July will also have a series of talks, events, tours, screenings, performances and more. Venue Various venues

For a detailed program please visit: Cost Free https://www.openhousemelbourne.org/melbourne/buildings/

Grainger Museum Frozen Improvisations: Exploring Keith Humble at the Grainger in the 1960s with Ensemble Density

Ensemble Density in collaboration with The Grainger Museum present a music Date Sunday 29 July workshop inspired by Keith Humble. Humble referred to his musical works as frozen improvisations because he regarded composition as an evolving creative Time 2pm to 4pm process and exchange of ideas rather then the making of a fnished product. Venue Grainger Museum For more details and to book please visit: Gate 13 https://grainger.unimelb.edu.au/whats-on/frozen-improvisations Royal Parade Parkville

Cost Free

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Immigration Museum Barangaroo Ngangamay

By coming together for ceremony, we pay respect to the Ancestors, acknowledge Dates Until 5 August the connections between us, and strengthen pathways for future generations. Venue Immigration Museum The Barangaroo Ngangamay exhibition honours the Old Lady Barangaroo and Community Gallery celebrates the strength, diversity and creativity of the Aboriginal women who 400 Flinders Street came together for ceremony, healing and remembering. Melbourne

For more details and to book please visit: Cost $0 - $15 https://museumsvictoria.com.au/immigrationmuseum/whats-on/barangaroo-ngangamay/

Royal Historical Society Victoria Vera Deakin’s World of Humanity

Vera, daughter of Alfred Deakin, was secretary of the Australian Red Cross Dates 26 April - 8 August Wounded and Missing Enquiry Bureau 1915-18. The bureau’s case fles, placed online by the Australian War Memorial, form a huge, invaluable archive. Venue Royal Historical Society Victoria Vera’s enquiry work was the forerunner of a lifetime of dedicated leadership of Drill Hall humanitarian causes, including for the Children’s Hospital and a society for the Main Gallery disabled. She played a prominent role in the Australian Red Cross during the 239 A’Beckett Street Second World War and was twice vice-chairman. Melbourne

For more details please visit: Cost $0 - $15 http://www.historyvictoria.org.au/exhibitions/temporary-exhibitions

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Heide Museum of Modern Art EuroVisions: Contemporary Art from the Goldberg Collection

Sampling some of the best artists and works to have come out of Europe in Dates 24 March - 19 August recent times, EuroVisions encompasses a vibrant cross-section of tendencies in contemporary art. Conceptual approaches, innovative thinking and a sense Venue Heide Museum of of history inform the exhibition, which ranges across painting, photography and Modern Art sculpture. 7 Templestowe Road Bulleen VIC 3105 For more details and to book please visit: https://www.heide.com.au/exhibitions/eurovisions-contemporary-art-goldberg-collection Cost $10 - $14

Scienceworks Above and Beyond

The ultimate interactive fight exhibition that takes you on a journey into the sky Dates 9 June - 7 October and beyond! Venue Explore the wonder of fight and space travel in an aerospace exhibition featuring 2 Booker Street immersive fight simulations, design challenges, visionary concepts for the future Spotswood and inspiring stories from game changing innovators. Cost $0 - $15 For more details and to book please visit: https://museumsvictoria.com.au/scienceworks/whats-on/above-and-beyond/

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