Stay up to date with the latest records and interesting stories uncovered from the collection. This blog will offer you a snapshot into the world of historical research featuring the extraordinary tales of Victorian people captured within Victorian Government archives.
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Discover Bendigo and District Hotels
![Hotels in the archives photo of letterhead](/sites/default/files/styles/348x144/public/2017-03/brac%20hotel.jpg?itok=JI1-s-Ta)
Archival Snapshot
In response to claims made by The Age today
![Response to The Age Photo of the Victorian Archives Centre](/sites/default/files/styles/348x144/public/2017-03/P1090591_0.jpg?itok=xOOx9NAl)
News And Events
Mosque plans
![Mosques Interior roof of mosque](/sites/default/files/styles/348x144/public/2017-02/mosque%20plans.jpg?itok=D8icQHXR)
Archival Snapshot
One more for the road
![Archival Snapshot Albert Sharpe's fingerprints](/sites/default/files/styles/348x144/public/2017-02/albert%20sharpe.jpg?itok=_p6Msqbd)
Archival Snapshot
Doris' 1936 inquest typical of many
![Typical title page of inquest deposition file from 1936 close up image of historic inquest record](/sites/default/files/styles/348x144/public/2017-01/Inquests%20Banner%202.jpg?itok=vWZL99K3)
Archival Snapshot
Women and welfare in colonial Victoria
![Black and white newspaper image of woman looking away](/sites/default/files/styles/348x144/public/2017-02/She%20had%20always%20banner%201.jpg?itok=tmZ9jz23)
News And Events
Final month of Mos to Mullets exhibition
![Sante Fe Railway's First Woman Engineer Christine Gonzales, 1976 black and white archive](/sites/default/files/styles/348x144/public/2017-01/Hippy%20Hair%2012903%20p1%20935%20170%201.jpg?itok=CkiHy1KJ)
News And Events
Ballarat Prison Registers conservation
![Ballarat Prison register Close up of historic document](/sites/default/files/styles/348x144/public/2017-01/ballarat%20prison%20reg.jpg?itok=PjML2K9y)
Behind The Scenes
PROVisualizer
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Recordkeeping For Government
The case of Alfred Bye
![Alfred Bye Compilation of papers related to Alfred Bye](/sites/default/files/styles/348x144/public/2017-01/alfred%20Bye.jpg?itok=0DOYgKiI)
Archival Snapshot
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