We joined Prof John Morrissey for a discussion about his recent Fellowship research focused on the environmental writing of renowned Australian poet and author Judith Wright.

Explore some of the speculative fiction reads in the collection and how they can help future generations understand society in the time they were written.

Dianne Wolfer, illustrated by Erica Wagner

Learn how to uncover facts and colour from historical documents, manuscripts, newspapers and more.

Edited by Chris Wallace

Manuscripts of poems and stories and letters from over 70 writers that Stephens assembled in the years in which he was editing the ‘Red Page’ of the Bulletin and later the Bookfellow.

Papers of Christina Stead including diaries, manuscripts of her works, correspondence, personal documents, cuttings and photographs as well as papers of her biographers.

3,300 books and serial issues in a range of languages relating to Asian and European literature, politics, history, religion and more. 

Hear Oxford academic Professor Emma Smith, the world’s leading Shakespeare scholar, discuss Shakespeare’s First Folio as part of its 400 year anniversary.

See Dr Kate Flaherty and actors from Bell Shakespeare explore the link between the books that inspired Shakespeare and Shakespeare's own work.

We held the third illustrated Shakespeare lecture and discovered the objects and stories that reveal how Shakespeare made landfall in Australia.  

Celebrate William Shakespeare's birthday with Shakespearean gems from the National Library's rare books collections.