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A 1913 Russian brochure on teaching the 'Australian method' of swimming has recently been added to our collection.

Find out how a powerful newspaper article written in 1855 by a fugitive slave was re-published into a book and added to our collection.

The redeveloped Catalogue is now live.

Learn about two broadsides recently added to our collection. 

A very rare chart of the Sunda Strait – located between the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Java – from 1602 has recently been added to our collection.

See some of the creative works from our collections have come out of copyright and into the public domain this year.

Every year, on 1 January, creative works come out of copyright and into the public domain.

The Library nominated Praiseworthy for this significant prize.

The Library has recently acquired 3 photographs from a Rational Dress Movement picnic in 1895.