The Canberra Times Digitisation Project
Newspapers are the eyes and ears of communities and an essential information resource. Today, through Trove, over 9 million newspaper pages (or 90 million articles) from almost 400 newspaper titles are freely available to the public.
Join us in celebrating the centenary of Canberra—the city that holds the story of our nation and whose journey The Canberra Times has reported since 1926— by assisting the Library to digitise and make available online via Trove an additional 40 years of The Canberra Times newspaper.
While the Library has already digitised issues of the newspaper published prior to 1955, we are now also able to digitise in-copyright issues after this date, by agreement with The Canberra Times. Through Trove, people will be able to search and browse across every page and article of The Canberra Times from 1926 to 1995.
With your support, we can enable a worldwide audience to share Canberra’s more recent history and its integral connection with national and international affairs: from the introduction of decimal currency to the dismissal of the Whitlam government, from Menzies to the moon landing, from Mabo to the Beatles. By providing online access to the nation’s stories through The Canberra Times we can create a lasting legacy for all Australians.
Help us bring the entire story of The Canberra Times to every household in Australia and hear more stories like these:
“Thanks to the Library’s nationwide newspaper digitisation project [my great-great-grandmother] Emma Steer—born in 1838, boarded the ship The Persian in 1852, married Alfred Whitlock in 1861, had nine children, died in 1880, and was buried somewhere in Bendigo—has suddenly come to life. I don’t know what she looked like, what happened to the illegitimate baby she bore, or how she met Alfred and explained her complicated history to him—but I know she had guts. This emotional dimension of discovery may turn out to be the real treasure at the heart of Trove.”
Annie Talvé, New South Wales
“The Library’s digitised newspapers are a seemingly endless source of information helping us to piece together bit by bit the history of our area. I’m constantly finding interesting ‘old’ news to add to our historical society’s monthly newsletter… a wonderful and so very helpful website.”
Ann Cassar, Altona Laverton Historical Society, Victoria
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