The Library’s Oral History and Folklore Collection dates back to the 1950’s and includes a rich and diverse collection of interviews and recordings with Australians from all walks of life.

About 140 oral history interviews, the majority for his Maltese-Australian and Polish-Australian folklore and social history projects. Personal papers of York plus papers of the historian Michael Cigler. Also a large quantity of Maltese newspapers, student newspapers, radical pamphlets and ephemera.

27 recordings of traditional music, recitations, folklore and oral histories made in New South Wales between 1968 and 1995.

One of the largest oral history collections in Australia with recordings of over 900 individuals in all States, as well as folk groups, singing groups, bands and choirs.

Personal papers of Patrick White, plus letters from White to other Australian writers acquired as part of their papers. Also papers of White's biographer David Marr and those of the artist and theatre designer Desmond Digby who had a long friendship with White.

A guide to requesting, accessing and publishing collection items in the Oral History and Folklore Collection.

108 oral history interviews recorded by Sturgess between 1976 and 1986 while writing his two books and working on various ABC productions.

Recordings of folk music, dance music, folklore and oral history from New South Wales and Queensland recorded during the period 1955-1990.

Recordings of folk songs and dance music from Queensland and also stories, legends and recollections of customs and immigrant settlement, particularly German and Scandinavian in rural Queensland.

40 recordings of folk music, folklore and reminiscences from people in rural New South Wales recorded 1983-1988.

1576 pamphlets, leaflets, speeches, newspaper and serial issues relating to trade unionism, socialism, left-wing parties in Australia, economics and labour issues, as well as the papers of Lloyd Ross and his father the socialist journalist R.S. Ross.

A summary of copyright and rights in the Oral History and Folklore Collection.