Our newspaper collections include digitised historic and modern newspapers accessible online, as well as newspapers in microform and paper formats.

Learn how you can search across millions of newspapers, journals, books, pictures, maps, and many other items from cultural, community and research collections around Australia.

The Library’s medieval manuscripts comprise more than 6000 individual folios in 250 items and 12 bound volumes, dispersed across several collections.

Learn what is available and how you can find and access items in our Asian language collections in this webinar.

The National Library of Australia’s Oral History and Folklore collection holds over 900 audio recordings from the National Press Club of Australia luncheon addresses including names like Margaret Thatcher, Richard Attenborough, Lowitja O’Donaghue and every Australian Prime Minister between 1964 and 1994.

Lavishly illustrated travel books had long been popular in Europe and North America when the same American team that produced Picturesque Canada established the Picturesque Atlas Publishing Company in Wynyard Square, Sydney, on Gadigal Country, in 1885.

Dive into the oral history collection, exploring highlights and how you can access the voices that describe Australia's cultural, intellectual and social life.

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

Start exploring the Library's diverse collections to search through time and place to build family stories and local narratives.

Discover early family histories of the Canberra region while learning about how you too can explore your town and put your family history puzzle back together.