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Text in a retro font reading '1975 Living in the Seventies' on a bright orange background
1975: Living in the Seventies

Look back on life in the 70s including politics, feminism, pop culture, news of the day, and more.

Exhibition
Collection guide
Zimmerman Collection

About 600 books and 66 serials, mainly relating to entomology and the natural sciences. Includes works on British entomology as well as Europe, North and South America. About one-third were published in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Collection guide
Watercolour of a bay with a sailboat in the foreground and a large white building in the background overlooking the bay

William Westall, Drawings, 1801, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-138873713

Westall Collection

139 pencil drawings and watercolour paintings produced by Westall, all but 2 from the voyage of HMS Investigator (1801-03).  Capturing landscapes, coastal profiles, and Indigenous peoples, these works offer a vivid, accurate record of early Australian encounters. As one of the first professional artists to visit Australia, Westall’s collection is a significant historical and cultural treasure.

Collection guide
map showing the weather and climate rainfall of Australia

Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology, Rainfall of Australia, 1909, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-230048304

Weather and climate research guide

Weather is defined as ‘the state of the atmosphere with respect to wind, temperature, cloudiness, moisture, pressure,’ precipitation and sunshine.

Research guide
A sweeping landscape of a mountain range. The mountains are craggy and rocky. They are covered in mist.

Peter Dombrovskis, Frankland Range, Southwest National Park, Tasmania, 1995, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-150007802

Understanding the living world

Module

Explore the connections between living things, the environments they inhabit, and the forces that shape them. 

Digital Classroom
Collection guide
Snell Collection

About 15,500 items of sheet music and about 700 music albums from the late eighteenth century to the 1980s, as well as the personal papers of Snell.

Collection guide
Two people at the bottom of Mount Townsend with flowers on the ground and rocks up the mountain

Frank Hurley, Mt Townshend with flowers in foreground [Kosciuszko, New South Wales], 1910, nla.obj-159969111

Researching 'Townsend of the Ranges'

Hear from Peter Crowley about his research for his debut book about surveyor Thomas Scott Townsend.

Blog
Two demonstrators stand on a structure at Parliament House, Canberra, raising their arms in the air beside an Australian Coat of Arms sculpture. A large peace flag is draped over the emblem. The black-and-white image captures the scene from below, with a cloudy sky in the background.

Sean Davey, Demonstrators drape a peace flag over the Coat of Arms, Iraq War protest, Great Verandah, Parliament House, Canberra, 2003, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-147381669

Protest and dissent

Use this guide to help find and access resources about the movements that have shaped social and cultural change in Australia.

Research guide
Photo close up of a European honey bees on the honeycomb of a beehive

Mark Jesser, European honey bees on a brood frame containing capped and uncapped cells at an apiary near Griffith, New South Wales, 2025, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-3668129443

Picturing beekeeping in Australia

The latest buzz at the Library is that 50 new photos of beekeeping in Australia are now available online. 

News article
Collection guide
People's Forest Collection

Oral history interviews with people involved in all aspects of forest and around photographs depicting various aspects of forests and forestry work.

Collection guide
Hot air balloon flying over a huge lake and desert area that stretches out towards the horizon at dawn

Andrew Chapman, Hot air ballooning over Lake Eyre when the lake is in flood, South Australia, 30 June 2010, nla.obj-138042325

Natural wonders around Australia

Explore natural landmarks including lakes, caves, beaches and forests around Australia with the Library's collection.

Blog
Collection guide
Mathews Collection

About 5000 books, pamphlets, reprints and journals published 1760-1940 in English, French, German, Italian and Russian. They relate to all aspects of ornithology in all parts of the world, with a special focus on Australian birds.

Collection guide

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