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Rediscovering the firsthand account of a fugitive slave
No longer yours - find out how a powerful newspaper article written in 1855 by a fugitive slave was re-published into a book ...
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Indian emigration passes to Fiji 1879-1916
Although not all passes and immigrant records have yet been indexed by name, the content of the films can be quickly accessed in several other ways, with the knowledge of any of the following emigrant ...
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Contact points for Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP)
The Library encourages use of its collection items in accordance with the Australian Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property Protocol and in line with advice received from ICIP holders. The ...
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2024 Community Heritage Grant recipients announced
Community Heritage Grant. Recipients include the Robin Boyd Foundation, the Foundation for Aboriginal and Islander Research ...
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First World War
Keepsakes: Australians and the Great War was the National Library of Australia's exhibition showcasing items from the collections relating to the First World War. Read this essay by exhibition curator ...
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What is and what isn’t Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP)?
Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) is the traditional knowledge, traditional cultural expression, and cultural heritage of Indigenous peoples. The Library has developed a protocol to ...
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Digital Classroom
School’s in at the National Library’s Digital Classroom. Home to more than 10 million collection items, the National Library of Australia is the largest source of information in the world about ...
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Rare 1602 map of the Sunda Strait
A very rare chart of the Sunda Strait – located between the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Java – from 1602 has recently been added to our collection. This chart was created by the cartographer ...
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Historian Interview - Australia's Context in a Global War
Dr. Aaron Pegram is a senior historian in the Military History Section at the Australian War Memorial. Aaron has published on the First World War and other areas of military history in Wartime, The ...
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This is History
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 ...
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National Simultaneous Storytime: Whitney and Britney Chicken Divas
Join us and VIP reader Gabby Millgate online for National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) as we head into the world of Whitney and Britney Chicken Divas. Every year, the Australian Library and ...