Hi my name is Lynda. I'm the Program Manager of Retail at the National Library of Australia. Basically that means I get to look after this beautiful shop. We're housed within the National Library of ...

The National Library of Australia acknowledges Australia’s First Nations Peoples – the First Australians – as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of this land and gives respect to the Elders – past ...

Learn about the research of 2024 National Library Scholar Zoe Smith and what she found during her time at the Library.

I guess it’s true what they say – birds of a feather flock together! View Betty’s original watercolours for the illustrations ...

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

Library curators Dr Grace Blakeley-Carroll and Matthew Jones discuss the breath-taking work of Australian artist and illustrator, Ellis Rowan. While Ellis Rowan is most well known for her botanical ...

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

Community Heritage Grant. Recipients include the Robin Boyd Foundation, the Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research ...

Prison hulks were floating prisons used from 1776 as temporary accommodation for prisoners from overcrowded jails. A hulk is a ship that is still afloat but unable to put to sea. The ships were ...

Refugees from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia came to Australia after the Vietnam War ended in 1975, many by boat. Political unrest and conflict in South America and the Middle East also encouraged ...

as held in the National Library of Australia s collection and freely available online. The National Library of Australia acknowledges Australia s First Nations Peoples, the first Australians, as the ...

Life under the shoguns was highly stratified, with the population falling into distinct classes based primarily on their economic or political functions. The system can be described as having three ...