553 books from the 19th to mid-20th century with a particular strength in botany and gardening, among many other subjects.

Susannah Fullerton OAM, President of the Jane Austen Society of Australia delivered a public lecture marking the 250th Anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth.

About 360 titles, particularly strong in first editions of English poetry and novels published in the nineteenth century and early twentieth century.

If you are considering independently publishing your book, learn how to get your published book into the Library's collection.

Heather Rose and Karen Viggers kick off the 2025 Canberra Writers Festival program at the National Library.

A gift from the Ralf Iannuzzi Memorial Trust is helping us to digitise some of our rarest items. 

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

About 200 books and 260 pamphlets, plus personal papers and photographs mainly related to Australian history, politics, law, literature and religion from Sir Ernest Littleton Groom.

Dive into the works of great female writers held in the Library's rare books collection.

Explore early women writers in the Library's rare books collections up to the year 1700.

We stepped into the private libraries of one of history’s most infamous royal couples and discovered how ink, margins, and manuscript flourishes reveal more than meets the eye.

About 300 books including incunabula and early editions of classical texts, plus limited edition reprints of celebrated English writers, mostly published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.