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University Sporting Colours: Why ‘The Blacks’?
Many University sporting teams have adopted the moniker of ‘The Blacks’. This refers to the University’s team colours of black and white, the origin of which is not clear. Photographs of University...
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Mary Ethel and Hilda Josephine: the other Floreys
University of Adelaide graduate and Nobel laureate, Howard Florey, is often called one of the greatest Australians who ever lived due to his ground-breaking research into penicillin. However, there...
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Do you know these men?
I recently came across this photograph amongst the collection of Sports Association photographs in the Archives collection. It is undated and the players are unidentified. Do you recognise any of them?...
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Science students ask the REALLY important questions
In 1985, the office holders of the Adelaide University Science Association wrote to local TV stations, Nine and Ten, posing some in depth questions about their respective star performers:...
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A ‘new’ University of Adelaide history
Shortly after the launch of the University of Adelaide’s new history book, The Spirit of Knowledge, another University history was discovered among un-processed records in the Archives. The document...
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Historic Land Titles Returned to the University Archives
In 2009, the University announced the sale of the Munduney and Moralana properties that had been bequeathed to it in 1968 by pastoralist, John Stanley Davies. Upon sale, the Certificates of Title for...
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Contracting-Out in the 1890’s
The University of Adelaide, like many large modern organisations, frequently uses contractors to undertake work of various kinds. However, it is doubtful that the notion was prevalent in 1898. Or was...
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