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University Archives Favourite Four – April 2015
This month’s theme is: Bells War Memorial Carillon, AIF Bell Being Installed (1928), [REF-00009801]. University of Sydney Archives, accessed 22/04/2025, https://archives-search.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/101475. Duncan Wass and Lucy Bell in Twelfth Night by the Bell Shakespeare Company (1995), [REF-00013286]. University of Sydney Archives, accessed 22/04/2025, https://archives-search.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/33162. George Gittoes and Pam Bell, University Art Curator, Carrying One of his…
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University Archives Flashback Friday – March 2025
7 March Women Students in Front of the Women’s Common Room (Circa 1892), [REF-00009904]. University of Sydney Archives, accessed 07/03/2025, https://archives-search.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/101578 14 March Dr Flora Gill, First Female Professor in Medicine (1983), [REF-00012936]. University of Sydney Archives, accessed 14/03/2025, https://archives-search.sydney.edu.au/nodes/view/31403 21 March POW! Never Underestimate the Power of a Woman (1977), [REF-00091137]. University of Sydney…