No longer yours - find out how a powerful newspaper article written in 1855 by a fugitive slave was re-published into a book ...

We’re pleased to announce that 55 community-led organisations will receive a Community Heritage Grant (CHG) in 2024.

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 ...

Joining the National Library gives you access to millions of items from our collections, onsite or online, wherever you are. It's easy to sign-up online, and it's free for all Australian residents. It ...

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 ...

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 ...

Prison hulks were floating prisons used from 1776 as temporary accommodation for prisoners from overcrowded jails. A hulk is a ship that is still afloat but unable to put to sea. The ships were ...

Professor John Maynard is a Worimi man from the Port Stephens region of New South Wales. He is the Director of the Purai Global Indigenous and Diaspora Research Studies Centre and one of the world’s ...