Hear from authors authors Tess Scholfield-Peters, André Dao and Sam Vincent as they discuss writing books that tell the story of a family member. For the next four weeks, the Library is one of 20 ...

Celebrating Australia’s regional towns and their heritage, Our Streets offers a snapshot of the country's iconic architectural styles and streetscapes. Featuring over 100 black and white images from ...

The internet is a valuable aid to research into family history. Australian websites contain a variety of information relating to family history and genealogy including guides, indexes and digitised ...

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 ...

Australian newspapers in the Library's collection are categorized and stored according to format. You can identify if the newspaper you have located in our catalogue ...

All children's books published by the NLA are accompanied by comprehensive teachers' notes that draw out topics and themes in the books in ways that align with the Australian Curriculum across all ...

Before 1833 the anti-slavery movement in America was largely unorganised. There was a scattering of local societies, such as the New York City Manumission Society (founded 1785) and the Pennsylvania ...

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 ...

Our eResources portal has been designed with easy access in mind, combining previous functionality with new features that enhance discoverability and make searching easier, more flexible, and more ...

The Whelan Collection contains about 1050 books by Australian authors, nearly all of them autographed and many containing lengthy annotations. The Palmer Collection contains about 2500 books and ...

A family standing outside a tin shack called Wiloma during the Great Depression, New South Wales, ca. 1932, nla.obj-160054430 The Library's collections offer a wealth of resources to the Australian ...

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 ...