Australians have often gone to great lengths to see their favourite sporting teams, even back in the 1860s. This is evidenced ...

We often don’t realise we’re living through a major historical moment until the time has passed. The pandemic we find ourselves in now is one such historical moment. Dr Chris Wallace and Professor ...

The National Library of Australia acknowledges Australia’s First Nations Peoples – the First Australians – as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of this land and gives respect to the Elders – past ...

The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) is a collection of unique historical material relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific dating from 1560 to 1984. Records filmed by the AJCP ...

The resources available for each house may be different, due to the fact the availability, organisation, and location of records vary from state to state. The three sources most commonly used to ...

The idea of a federation of the six Australian colonies was occasionally debated among Australian politicians, officials and others from about 1850 onwards. There was support for the idea in official ...

Access to Records by Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants Assistance with records searching is available if you are a Forgotten Australian, Former Child Migrant (sometimes referred to as a ...

Notices of convict Assignment were published in Government Gazettes. Try searching the New South Wales Government Gazettes on Trove for a notice of Assignment. You can view the Library's microform ...

While Indigenous Australians have inhabited the continent for tens of thousands of years, and traded with nearby islanders, the first documented landing on Australia by a European was in 1606. The ...

What better way to start your day than with a delicious coffee, basking in the glow of the Library’s famous Leonard French stained glass windows. Paperplate cafe is located downstairs on Lower Ground ...

Life under the shoguns was highly stratified, with the population falling into distinct classes based primarily on their economic or political functions. The system can be described as having three ...

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