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Photograph of three women, with sewing and knitting tools

Photograph of Florence, Ella and Hazel Porter, circa late 1940s, with sewing and knitting tools, including a wooden darning egg.

Community Heritage Grant: Miss Porter's House

20 Mar 2023

Explore the collection at the Miss Porter's House museum and the projects it undertook through the CHG program.

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Watch Dr Kate Warren's Fellowship presentation titled 'Cut-out-and-keep: magazines and the popularisation of Australian art in the 1950s and 1960s'.

Q&A with 2022 National Library of Australia Fellow Dr Kate Warren

16 Mar 2023

Kate’s research focused on the role of popular magazines in Australian art history and arts communication in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Frontispiece and title page of Melchisédech Thévenot, The Art of Swimming. The second edition. London: Printed for John Lever, 1764, nla.cat-vn7756220

Rare book highlights – Swimming in 1764

27 Feb 2023

How is a rare book about swimming connected to an important early European map of Australia and American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin? Find out in this blog.

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Reckoning: A Memoir by Magda Szubanski

Australian pride histories and biographies: Recommendations from the National Library

22 Feb 2023

Celebrate WorldPride with this diverse range of books about the LGBTQIA+ experience and culture.

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View of the National Library of Australia with a reflection of the building appearing in the water.

Library Lovers’ Day

14 Feb 2023

To help celebrate Library Lovers’ Day, visitors to the National Library were asked to nominate what it is they love about the Library.

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The Library: A Fragile History by Andrew Pettegree and Arthur der Weduw

09 Feb 2023

Explore these book recommendations from the National Library staff to help library lovers of all ages get in the Library Lovers’ Day spirit!

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She's on the Money by Victoria Devine and Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape

She's on the Money by Victoria Devine and The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape

What's hot in non-fiction: Summer reading suggestions from your National Librarians

27 Jan 2023

Interested in adding more non-fiction books to your reading list? Check out these recommendations from staff at the National Library.

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The Birds of Australia Gould - Printed plate

Conserving John Gould’s Australian Bird Pattern Plates

13 Jan 2023

Learn about the treatment work our conservators have recently done on thepattern plates for the supplement to The Birds of Australia by John Gould.

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Special presentation copy of The Narrow Road to the Deep North, London: Chatto & Windus, 2014. Image: National Library of Australia

2022 new collection item highlights

10 Jan 2023

Find out about some of the new items that were added to our collections during 2022.

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Book cover of The Woman in the Library with annotations reading murder mystery, unlikely friendships, thrilling, unexpected ending and story within a story, next to a photo of the National Library Reading Room

Don't look up: the National Library's main reading room; and The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill

2022 blogs

31 Dec 2022

Explore our blogs from 2022, captured by the Australian Web Archive.

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Manuscript map of Guangdong: [Chaozhou fu: Chenghai - Chaoyang - Huilai - Nanao Dao fang yu tu], (1850), nla.gov.au/nla.obj-230559800

2021 blogs

31 Dec 2021

Explore our blogs from 2021, captured by the Australian Web Archive.

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Detail of the cover of Miles Franklin's 'My Brillirant Career' which features a women on a horse herding sheep

Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career (detail), 1901, nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1666224

2020 blogs

31 Dec 2020

Explore our blogs from 2020, captured by the Australian Web Archive.

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