Use this guide to help find and access resources about the movements that have shaped social and cultural change in Australia.

Learn about two broadsides recently added to our collection. 

Thousands of pamphlets, booklets, leaflets, speeches, brochures and other material from political parties, trade unions, pressure groups and other bodies concerned with the Australian labour movement from the 1890s to 1960s.

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.

More than 400 Russian socialist pamphlets published mainly in the period 1900-1945, and 2 microfilm collections from Stanford and Harvard Universities of Russian revolutionary literature from 1898-1922.

The Library has recently digitised the speeches of Dr Lowitja O’Donoghue AC CBE DSG.

You may need to access statistical data to support or illustrate your research. This guide will help you find and access key records and resources.

Learn about one of our largest manuscripts collections.

We are grateful to our donors who generously gave over $320,000 to help make our election ephemera collection available to the world on Trove. Your support will allow us to share the vivid story of our Australian democracy.

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This resource is aligned with the Australian Curriculum: History for Year 10 students. It engages students with a rich selection of sources and challenges them to draw their own conclusions about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ struggle for civil rights in Australia.

The National Library of Australia is seeking community support to digitise its unique collection of election ephemera.

Learn how you can search use Trove to search government gazettes.