This special event explored some of the ways in which southern NSW community members have told and preserved their bushfire stories.

Recordings of the music of various language, nationality or region-based communities in Melbourne, from 1975 to 1983. Also includes oral history interviews with people who lived in the Illawarra region from the 1920s to 1990s and people involved with the 1989 Newcastle earthquake.

National Library of Australia

Author Mark Greenwood shares his process of writing NLA Publishing children’s title The Legend of Jessie Hickman.

Learn some useful tips and suggestions on how to use newspapers for family history research.

Queensland’s history is now easier to search online.

About 3,460 books and pamphlets, mostly local, church, business and organisational histories from around Australia.

Folklore performances and oral history interviews recorded between 1981 and 1989, containing music, recitations and recollections of performances and local history.

About 2,100 books, pamphlets, government publications, tourist booklets, magazines and other works about Mauritius and the Indian Ocean. Mostly in French or English, but also a few items in Mauritian Creole.

Papers and photographs related to Clark's life and work as an Australian historian of renown.

About 500 books, pamphlets, reports, leaflets, circulars, reprints and transcripts, mostly published 1920–1950, relating to communism, the labour movement and international politics. About half are Australian.

421 photographs taken in the period 1858–1910 in Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and South Australia, mostly of public buildings, street scenes, rural scenes and events.