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

View photos from Australia's inaugural First Nations netball tournament, now in Trove.

Topic

One of the most significant events at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics was the admission of women into the Olympic swimming competition.

Negatives, transparancies, photographs, books, serials, personal papers and oral history interviews related to motorcycles, races and vintage cars.

Score! We’ve commissioned photos of different sports in Australia, including rock climbing, mountain biking and woodchopping.

696 books and pamphlets relating to freshwater fishing mostly from Britain, as well as many from Australia, New Zealand and America.

Oral history interviews with prominent Australian women.

Explore the rich history of boxing in Australia through the Arnold Thomas Collection. This unique resource features over 1,000 photographs, souvenir programs, match day cards and ephemera spanning from the 1870s to the 1990s. 

Oral history interviews recorded by Neil Bennetts with leading Australian figures in a wide range of sports.

Module

This resource is aligned to the Australian Curriculum: Health and Physical Education for Year 7, 8, 9 and 10 students. Students will engage with a rich selection of sources and be challenged to draw their own conclusions about the role of sport in Australia’s culture and history.

Topic

With new people and cultures come new ideas and practices. These could be new foods, new religions, new art forms or even new sports.

Hear about the Australian Sikh Games, and how Library staff gained new collection items, connections and knowledge.