No longer yours - find out how a powerful newspaper article written in 1855 by a fugitive slave was re-published into a book ...

We’re pleased to announce that 55 community-led organisations will receive a Community Heritage Grant (CHG) in 2024.

Marian Ellis Ryan (1848–1922) was born in Melbourne. Her father was a grazier and her maternal grandfather was John Cotton, who wrote and illustrated two books on English birds. She attended a girls’ ...

Keepsakes: Australians and the Great War was the National Library of Australia's exhibition showcasing items from the collections relating to the First World War. Read this essay by exhibition curator ...

What is the total area of Qld in sq miles/kms What was the total population of Queensland in 1987 What was the percentage of children in care in 1987 1. Information about the geography of Queensland ...

Once your papers or organisational records have been accepted by the Curatorial and Collection Research Section, they are ready to be prepared for transfer. To assist the Library we ask that donors ...

Early nineteenth-century gazettes served as general newspapers as well as government gazettes. Before 1940, territory ordinances, including those of the ACT and Northern Territory, were published in ...

As each year passes our connection with the events of the Great War fades. It is now no longer possible to talk to a soldier or a nurse who served in the war. To understand what they went through, we ...

Notices of convict Assignment were published in Government Gazettes. Try searching the New South Wales Government Gazettes on Trove for a notice of Assignment. You can view the Library's microform ...

The arrival of an ancestor in Australia is a key moment in a family's history. They may have arrived as a fare-paying passenger, as an 'assisted' migrant, a member of a ship's crew, in military or ...

Use our guides to explore the depths of our rich collections. You will find research advice, key resources, featured collection items, selected websites and research case studies. We also have a ...

Rare and special materials represent manuscripts, illustrations of special artistic or graphic interest Note: In the Library context manuscripts (such as the papers of prominent Australians) will be ...