Barossa News Digitisation Project

Angaston Heritage, and Barossa Valley Archives and Historical Trust, along with the Heritage Network (Barossa Light Gawler Mid-Murray) are raising funds to support the digitization of the Barossa News for online access via TROVE.

Efforts are focused on digitizing the years from 1908 to 1951 to make them widely accessible for our community. Trove’s extensive digitized newspaper collection provides a wealth of information about local life and people of our communities with a simple computer search.

The Barossa News started in Angaston in 1908 and was the first newspaper to provide local news coverage to the Barossa region. Its circulation included Angaston, Tanunda, Truro, Nuriootpa, Greenock, Stockwell, Keyneton, Moculta, Eden Valley and the Murray Flats districts. Subsequent name changes have the more familiar Barossa & Light Herald and then Barossa Herald.

With the establishment of the Barossa Leader in 1918, a significant gap exists in the digitised local news coverage from 1908 to 1918, a period encompassing the key events of World War 1 and the advent of the railway service.

The State Library of South Australia will carry out the professional digitizing services.