We’re pleased to announce that 55 community-led organisations will receive a Community Heritage Grant (CHG) in 2024. The CHG program supports community organisations to care for Australian cultural ...

We have an abundance of talented bird artists in our collection. They are all mostly from the 19th and 20th centuries. I guess it’s true what they say – birds of a feather flock together! View Betty’s ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

55 community-led organisations have received a 2024 Community Heritage Grant. Recipients include the Robin Boyd Foundation, the Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research Action (Queensland), ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...