Aboriginal History Archive

The Aboriginal History Archive houses items arising out of the Aboriginal Black Power, Land Rights and Self-Determination movements.  It spans a century of activism from the 1920s onwards. Most of the material has been collected by Gary Foley throughout his fifty year career as an activist, performer, polemicist, historian and teacher.

It includes manifestos and minutes, essays and articles, journals and newsletters, memoirs and diaries, course outlines and proposals, posters and flyers, news clippings and correspondence, photos and audio tapes, moving images on a variety of platforms, together with a mass of ephemera.

All together, there are over 4,000 individual objects housed in the physical archive, and it continues to grow.

Nearly all of this has been catalogued and digitised.  Descriptions of this material can now be searched for and scrutinised on this site. These descriptions (and the cataloguing criteria) continue to be improved so updates routinely occur.