Sport is a storytelling machine. And for Australians that machine is prolific. The Australian popular imagination is crowded with stories drawn from sporting contests.

Great sporting moments make great stories.

Every weekend sporting contests around the country generate stories that we tell and retell.

About 200 books and 260 pamphlets, plus personal papers and photographs mainly related to Australian history, politics, law, literature and religion from Sir Ernest Littleton Groom.

Each year, hundreds of thousands of pages of content are added to our digital collections and made available online through Trove.

Explore some of the recent additions to the collection representing the contribution of Australians with Chinese heritage.

The Library congratulates long-time contributor to the Library’s oral history projects Barry York for completing his 500th interview.

The National Library's collections range in date from the eleventh century to the present, take in every country in the world and are exceptionally broad in format and subject.

Personal papers and about 600 books and pamphlets from 1900-1960 on international relations, political biography, migration and more with a focus on the Commonwealth and United States. 

Photocopies of typescripts of 18 unpublished plays.