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

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

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

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

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.

Edited by Chris Wallace

Dr Matthew Lamb presents his recent Fellowship research on Frank Moorhouse’s ‘archival imagination’, exploring how his methods shaped his work and identity. 

Learn how to uncover facts and colour from historical documents, manuscripts, newspapers and more.

Does listening count as reading? Should narrators perform? Can audiobooks do more than imitate printed ones? This event explored the evolution of the audiobook from analog to AI.

Dianne Wolfer, illustrated by Erica Wagner

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.

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.