Our dance collection contains portraits, manuscripts, oral history interviews, photographs, music scores, personal papers, theatre programs and memorabilia.

A summary of copyright and rights in the Oral History and Folklore Collection.

The National Library of Australia’s Oral History and Folklore collection holds over 900 audio recordings from the National Press Club of Australia luncheon addresses including names like Margaret Thatcher, Richard Attenborough, Lowitja O’Donaghue and every Australian Prime Minister between 1964 and 1994.

Dive into the oral history collection, exploring highlights and how you can access the voices that describe Australia's cultural, intellectual and social life.

Oral history interviews by Diana Giese with Chinese Australians, Cambodian refugees and community leaders, and with people involved in the Australian publishing industry.

This oral history project underpins a broader Australian Centre for Paralympic Studies project to capture and preserve the history of Paralympic sport.

The National Library conducted an oral history project to record the lives and experiences of Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants.

Recordings of the music of various language, nationality or region-based communities in Melbourne, from 1975 to 1983. Also includes oral history interviews with people who lived in the Illawarra region from the 1920s to 1990s and people involved with the 1989 Newcastle earthquake.