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 ...

Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) is the traditional knowledge, traditional cultural expression, and cultural heritage of Indigenous peoples. The Library has developed a protocol to ...

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 ...

Joining the National Library gives you access to millions of items from our collections, onsite or online, wherever you are. It's easy to sign-up online, and it's free for all Australian residents. It ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many protest movements in Australia have resulted from dramatic shifts in public opinion on contentious issues, and as a response to how governments of the time dealt with these shifting opinions. The ...

A very rare chart of the Sunda Strait – located between the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Java – from 1602 has recently been added to our collection. This chart was created by the cartographer ...