Every federal election, the Library collects campaign material and ephemera across all candidates, electorates and parties comprehensively. The Library's election ephemera collection covers every ...

Australians have often gone to great lengths to see their favourite sporting teams, even back in the 1860s. This is evidenced ...

We often don’t realise we’re living through a major historical moment until the time has passed. The pandemic we find ourselves in now is one such historical moment. Dr Chris Wallace and Professor ...

Who will be the winners of the 2024 Prime Minister's Literary Awards? Join 3 of the winners, André Dao, Daniel Browning and Ryan Cropp, in conversation with the Artistic Director of the Canberra ...

Following a comprehensive process, the library has selected the open-source FOLIO library services platform for its next-generation library management system. A library management system is the ...

The arrival of the First Fleet on Gadigal land at Sydney Cove in 1788 brought around 1,400 convicts, sailors, soldiers and administrators to Australia. Over the next 100 years the British occupied ...

Preserved in the National Library of Australia’s Manuscripts Collection, along with Cook’s handwritten journal, are another set of instructions. These were ‘hints’ provided to Cook by the president of ...

Theses completed for higher research degrees (PhD, Masters or Honours) form an important body of original research. There are a number of places you can search for Australian theses, we have outlined ...

This part of the Handbook contains a listing of all microfilms reels in the AJCP collection in numerical order. It also includes a listing of institutions which held part or all of the AJCP at the ...

Access to Records by Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants Assistance with records searching is available if you are a Forgotten Australian, Former Child Migrant (sometimes referred to as a ...

This page lists New South Wales-related online, networked and microform resources as well as print publications available for use within the National Library of Australia. Civil registration of births ...

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 ...