Over 10 000 books, pamphlets and issues of periodicals, published between the late sixteenth and mid-twentieth century. The main strength is English literature, particularly of the eighteenth century.

Learn some useful tips and suggestions on how to use newspapers for family history research.

Access hardcopy and microfilm newspapers, family history resources, and material from our microform collection.

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

A letter from Sir John Franklin to Captain John Washington from 1839 was recently acquired by the Library.

Christopher Cheng, illustrated by Di Wu

With the Opalgate Foundation’s support, we are creating a new lifelong learning space on our website.

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

This is one of the unexpected stories of Fred Ward aka Captain Thunderbolt, who was known as the ‘gentleman bushranger’.

The voices of Australia’s gutsy women journalists are being brought to life in a new season of the National Library of Australia’s podcast, Bookmark This.