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	<title>Australian War Memorial &#187; From the collection</title>
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		<title>60 year old sweat on a  wedding dress &#8211; a conservation challenge</title>
		<link>http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2009/11/12/60-year-old-sweat-on-a-wedding-dress-a-conservation-challenge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:47:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emma Jones</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Of love and war]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Love and war]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in September, I was doing some work out at our Treloar Annex, which is where our conservators work.  I was videoing the construction process of the mannequins being made for the 3 wedding dresses  that are to be included in the “Of love and war” exhibition. During a break in filming I got talking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proactive Collecting with HMAS Parramatta</title>
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		<comments>http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2009/11/04/proactive-collecting-with-hmas-parramatta/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Orr</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[HMAS Parramatta]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ HMAS Parramatta (author's collection)
The Australian War Memorial faces unique challenges presented by the modern age to its collection development for recent conflicts, including Iraq and Afghanistan. With email, phones and internet communicative tools largely replacing traditional keepsakes such as diaries and letters, this has made identifying and retaining objects of the ADF experience in modern [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage</title>
		<link>http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2009/10/28/unesco-world-day-for-audiovisual-heritage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2009/10/28/unesco-world-day-for-audiovisual-heritage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Selby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, 27th October was UNESCO&#8217;s World Day for Audiovisual Heritage.
In 2005 the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) indentified the archiving and preservation of audiovisual documents as an outstanding issue needing addressing, stating that:
Much of the world&#8217;s audiovisual heritage has already been irrevocably lost through neglect, destruction, decay and the lack of resources, skills, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>German Official and Regimental Histories</title>
		<link>http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2009/10/20/german-official-and-regimental-histories/</link>
		<comments>http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2009/10/20/german-official-and-regimental-histories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel Hunt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Memorial’s Research Centre holds over 900 First World War German Official and Regimental Histories in its Published Collection. These extensive holdings of rare German language histories are mainly due to the foresight and enthusiasm of Capt. J. J. Herbertson who was instrumental in the collection of these titles over the period 1922-1937.
A view of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Relics of the 16th Battalion at the Bloody Angle, Gallipoli, 1919</title>
		<link>http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2009/10/14/relics-of-the-16th-battalion-at-the-bloody-angle-gallipoli-1919/</link>
		<comments>http://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2009/10/14/relics-of-the-16th-battalion-at-the-bloody-angle-gallipoli-1919/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Di Rutherford</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Collecting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heraldry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In January 1919 tattered pieces of uniform were found lying among the bones of the men of the 16th Battalion, who were killed trying to advance at the Bloody Angle on 2 May 1915. These items were recovered by Lieutenant William Hopkins James, who headed a small party to Gallipoli for the Australian War Records Section (the [...]]]></description>
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