A $14,400 grant from Public Record Office Victoria will allow a Border history group to extend access to the region's older newspapers.
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Wodonga Historical Society will use the money to have pages from the former Albury Banner and Wodonga Express digitised and placed on Trove, the online database hosted by the National Library of Australia.
Society secretary Uta Wiltshire said the digitisation was part of a wider project that began last year when Albury and District Historical Society won a grant from the NSW regional cultural fund.
The present funding means internet users will be able to read free of charge the Albury Banner and Wodonga Express from 1875 to 1938 and The Border Morning Mail from 1938 to 1943.
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Wodonga deputy mayor Kat Bennett, thanked both historical societies for lobbying government agencies in both states and in securing local funding support.
"This has been a grassroots campaign by grassroots historians with strong interests in local and family history," she said.
"But it will also be of great help to playwrights, novelists, artists exploring the local past for old familiar stories or new ones.''
Jennifer Jones, of La Trobe University and Charles Sturt University's Bruce Pennay supported the two historical societies during the grant processes.
Work on the digital project is expected to begin within months.
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