Dr Alice Garner presented a lecture on her 2023 National Library Fellowship research on the life of Mavis Robertson.

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This resource is aligned to the Australian Curriculum: HASS for Year 5 students. It adopts an inquiry learning approach that develops students’ skills as historians.

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This resource is aligned with the Australian Curriculum: Modern History for Senior Secondary students, with specific reference to content descriptions for Unit 1: Understanding the Modern World, and specifically those that fall under the topic elective ‘The Enlightenment (1750–1789)’.

The Disability Inclusion Action Plan 2024-2026 outlines the National Library's vision for enhancing disability access and inclusion for our workforce, our onsite users and users of online services.

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Sievers’ work is a pictorial timeline showing Australia’s social, technological and industrial transformation.

A guide to finding biographies.

Financial and research support for experienced researchers in various fields and disciplines.

The J.C. Williamson Ltd archives include a wide range of materials, such as business records, playscripts, libretti, music, programs, magazines, books, costume designs, and photographs. It also contains personal papers from Williamson's business partners, the Tait family and George Tallis.

Our newspaper collections include digitised historic and modern newspapers accessible online, as well as newspapers in microform and paper formats.