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

Learn about 2025 National Library of Australia Fellow John Morrissey's research into poet and environmentalist Judith Wright. 

Susannah Fullerton discusses her newest book Great Writers & the Cats Who Owned Them.

Discover new stories held within our collection and build on conversations steeped in nostalgia, curiosity and transformation. 

Libby Hathorn and Jude Fell

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Henry Lawson is celebrated as one of Australia’s greatest poets. 

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

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

Books on music and printed music published in Britain from the mid-17th century to the 20th century.

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

Papers including letters, newspaper cuttings, published caricatures, original cartoons, letters and literary manuscripts, mostly related to Australian and New Zealander writers, journalists, composers and artists.

This small but significant collection of early 20th-century German and Austrian books includes poetry, plays, novels, essays, fairytales, folklore, art books, memoirs, and works on theatre and opera. Many are rare or limited editions, notable for their fine bindings and illustrations.