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Forbes Times
The ''Forbes Times'' was an English language newspaper published in Forbes, New South Wales, Australia. History The ''Forbes Times'' was first published on 3 September 1870 by a Mr. J. Felt and ran until 31 March 1920 when it was incorporated into ''The Forbes Advocate''. The paper was "taken over" by ''The Forbes Advocate'' run by G.W. Brownhill. The New South Wales Country Free Press Association had long been advocating for the amalgamation of country newspapers where more than one existed in rural districts. With three local papers in Forbes, the scarcity and high cost of paper immediately after the first world war led to uncertainty in the market. Brownhill's decision to incorporate the ''Forbes Times'' into ''The Forbes Advocate'' was seen as not only necessary, but as a shrewd business move by both reducing production overheads and by eliminating a competitor. Digitisation ''The Forbes Times'' has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Prog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forbes, New South Wales
Forbes is a town in the Central West, New South Wales, Central West region of New South Wales, Australia, located on the Newell Highway between Parkes, New South Wales, Parkes and West Wyalong, New South Wales, West Wyalong. At the , Forbes had a population of 9,319. Forbes is probably named after Francis Forbes, Sir Francis Forbes, first Chief Justice of NSW. Located on the banks of the Lachlan River, Forbes is above sea-level and about west of Sydney. The district is a cropping area where wheat and similar crops are grown. Nearby towns and villages include Calarie, Parkes, New South Wales, Parkes, Bedgerebong, New South Wales, Bedgerebong, Bundabarrah, New South Wales, Bundabarrah, Corradgery, New South Wales, Corradgery, Daroobalgie, New South Wales, Daroobalgie, Eugowra, New South Wales, Eugowra, Ooma North, New South Wales, Ooma North and Paytens Bridge, New South Wales, Paytens Bridge. Forbes is subject to a pattern of flooding, generally occurring to a significant le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a Megadiverse countries, megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with Deserts of Australia, deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approximately Early human migrations#Nearby Oceania, 65,000 years ago, during the Last Glacial Period, last i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program
Trove is an Australian online library database owned by the National Library of Australia in which it holds partnerships with source providers National and State Libraries Australia, an aggregator and service which includes full text documents, digital images, bibliographic and holdings data of items which are not available digitally, and a free faceted-search engine as a discovery tool. Content The database includes archives, images, newspapers, official documents, archived websites, manuscripts and other types of data. it is one of the most well-respected and accessed GLAM services in Australia, with over 70,000 daily users. Based on antecedents dating back to 1996, the first version of Trove was released for public use in late 2009. It includes content from libraries, museums, archives, repositories and other organisations with a focus on Australia. It allows searching of catalogue entries of books in Australian libraries (some fully available online), academic and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Library Of Australia
The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the ''National Library Act 1960'' for "maintaining and developing a national collection of library material, including a comprehensive collection of library material relating to Australia and the Australians, Australian people", thus functioning as a national library. It is located in Parkes, Australian Capital Territory, Parkes, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, ACT. Created in 1960 by the ''National Library Act'', by the end of June 2019 its collection contained 7,717,579 items, with its manuscript material occupying of shelf space. The NLA also hosts and manages the renowned Trove cultural heritage discovery service, which includes access to the Australian Web Archive and National edeposit (NED), a large collection of digitisation, digitised newspapers, official documents, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Newspapers In New South Wales
This is a list of newspapers in New South Wales in Australia. List of newspapers in New South Wales (A) List of newspapers in New South Wales (B) List of newspapers in New South Wales (C) List of newspapers in New South Wales (D) List of newspapers in New South Wales (E–F) List of newspapers in New South Wales (G) List of newspapers in New South Wales (H) List of newspapers in New South Wales (I–J) List of newspapers in New South Wales (K–L) List of newspapers in New South Wales (M) List of newspapers in New South Wales (N–O) List of newspapers in New South Wales (P) List of newspapers in New South Wales (Q–R) List of newspapers in New South Wales (S) List of newspapers in New South Wales (T–V) List of newspapers in New South Wales (W–Z) See also * List of newspapers in Australia * List of student newspapers in Australia * Media of Australia * Media in Sydney References {{DEFAULTSORT:Newspapers in New South Wales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
