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

The Asian language collections cover a broad range of formats and focus on contemporary Asia from the 19th century onwards 

Queensland’s history is now easier to search online.

While we don’t sell original newspapers, you can create a scan or photocopy onsite or order a digital copy online. 

Read newspaper clippings from the late 19th century up to the year 2000.

Find and access print and microfilm formats of Australian newspapers published between 1955 and 1990.

Find a large range of current and historic Australian newspapers in digital format through Trove and our eResources portal. 

Find and read historic and modern newspapers online, in print or on microfilm. 

Books, pamphlets, broadsides, posters, periodicals, newspapers and some manuscripts mostly relating to Federation and political and constitutional history.

About 140 oral history interviews, the majority for his Maltese-Australian and Polish-Australian folklore and social history projects. Personal papers of York plus papers of the historian Michael Cigler. Also a large quantity of Maltese newspapers, student newspapers, radical pamphlets and ephemera.

Pamphlets, newspapers, printed ephemera, transcripts from archives in Ireland and Australia, records of Irish organisations in Australia, and personal papers of Irish nationalists and Catholic clergy. Also about 1200 photographs of Australian places and people with an Irish connection.

Around 186 Chinese newspapers and serials, mostly published from 1949 to 1984, plus a small number of government documents of the period 1969 to 1977, monographs, pamphlets, mimeographed works, and some works published during the Japanese occupation of China.