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 ...

For the next four weeks, the Library is one of 20 locations hosting contemporary mixed media artworks as part of the Canberra Art Biennial. See Professor Robin Gerster present a lecture on his ...

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 ...

There is some conjecture about the first European birth on Australian soil, but William Nash seems to be the prime candidate. His father, also William, was a Marine Private and his mother was Maria ...

When I tell people that I wrote a book about a colonial surveyor called Townsend, and that I spent almost seven years researching it, I am usually met with quizzical looks—it is rare for anyone to ...

Marian Ellis Ryan (1848–1922) was born in Melbourne. Her father was a grazier and her maternal grandfather was John Cotton, who wrote and illustrated two books on English birds. She attended a girls’ ...

Electoral rolls list people who are registered and eligible to vote at federal, state, territory and local government elections and referenda. Before Federation and for some years afterwards, there ...

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 ...

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 ...

Locating the last resting places of our family and forebears can be an important aspect of our genealogical research. For many, it will eventually lead to a journey to those places and to the exact ...

The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) is a collection of unique historical material relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific dating from 1560 to 1984. Records filmed by the AJCP ...

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 ...