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National Library welcomes announcement of ongoing Trove funding
03 Apr 2023

National Library welcomes announcement of ongoing Trove funding

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National Library of Australia Treasures Gallery.

What’s on in April 2023 at the National Library
31 Mar 2023

Find treasure at the National Library this April!

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Rare Dictionaries

Jacques Lacombe (1724–1811), Dizionario Portatile Delle Belle Arti (Portable Dictionary of the Fine Arts), Venice: Bassano, 1768, Onions Collection, nla.cat-vn15907 

Rare dictionaries at the Library
29 Mar 2023

Explore dictionaries of various shapes, sizes, languages and subjects from the Library's collection.

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Martie Lowenstein - The recipient of the 2023 National Folk Fellowship
Q&A with 2023 National Folk Fellow Martie Lowenstein
24 Mar 2023

Learn about Martie’s Fellowship that will result in a documentary to be screened at the 2023 National Folk Festival.

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The front of the National Library of Australia, lit up with images and lights. There are big light up letters in front of the building that spell out 'Enlighten'.

2022 Enlighten at the National Library.

What’s on in March 2023 at the National Library
23 Mar 2023

It’s all happening at the National Library this March!

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A black and white image of 5 dogs in an old fashioned open top car.

Five bulldogs clambering out of an open top car, New South Wales, c.1930s, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-162452856, courtesy Fairfax Syndication

New NLA Publishing title set to get tails wagging
23 Mar 2023

Australians love dogs—big dogs, little dogs, fluffy couch potatoes and hardy working dogs.

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Photograph of Florence, Ella and Hazel Porter, circa late 1940s, with sewing and knitting tools, including a wooden darning egg.

Community Heritage Grant: Miss Porter's House
20 Mar 2023

Explore the collection at the Miss Porter's House museum and the projects it undertook through the CHG program.

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Watch Dr Kate Warren's Fellowship presentation titled 'Cut-out-and-keep: magazines and the popularisation of Australian art in the 1950s and 1960s'.

Q&A with 2022 National Library of Australia Fellow Dr Kate Warren
16 Mar 2023

Kate’s research focused on the role of popular magazines in Australian art history and arts communication in the 1950s and 1960s.


 

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Two portrait photographs side by side. The one on the left is a sepia toned image of a woman with a 1950s hairstyle and a fur around her neck The one on the right is a black and white image of a woman with a 1950 hairstyle wearing a dark velvet-looking dress.
First Women in federal parliament - Dame Enid Lyons and Dame Dorothy Tangney
08 Mar 2023

The National Library has recently digitised two letters from the collections of Enid Lyons and Dorothy Tangney.

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An image of a black and white photo, some yarn and sewing cotton and knitting needles on a green background.

Photograph of Florence, Ella and Hazel Porter, circa late 1940s, with sewing and knitting tools, including a wooden darning egg, courtesy of Miss Porter's House.

Apply now for Community Heritage Grants
06 Mar 2023

Applications are now open for the 2023 Community Heritage Grants (CHG) program.

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Eleven people posed for a photo under the National Library's exterior colonnade.

Summer Scholars, NLA Fellows and Asia Study Grant recipients in residence at the National Library in February 2022.

Fellowships 2024: see your research come together
02 Mar 2023

Applications for 2024 National Library of Australia Fellowships, Creative Arts Fellowships and the Folk Fellowship open on 3 March 2023.

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Rare Books Swimming - Roger Lever

Frontispiece and title page of Melchisédech Thévenot, The Art of Swimming. The second edition. London: Printed for John Lever, 1764, nla.cat-vn7756220

Rare book highlights – Swimming in 1764
27 Feb 2023

How is a rare book about swimming connected to an important early European map of Australia and American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin? Find out in this blog.

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