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

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

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

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

School’s in at the National Library’s Digital Classroom. Home to more than 10 million collection items, the National Library of Australia is the largest source of information in the world about ...

Although not all passes and immigrant records have yet been indexed by name, the content of the films can be quickly accessed in several other ways, with the knowledge of any of the following emigrant ...

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 ...

The Library encourages use of its collection items in accordance with the Australian Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property Protocol and in line with advice received from ICIP holders. The ...

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 ...

Join us and VIP reader Gabby Millgate online for National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) as we head into the world of Whitney and Britney Chicken Divas. Every year, the Australian Library and ...