Julie Murphy, illustrated by Annie White

Unfortunately the National Library is unable to provide facilities to supervise examinations.

Topic

Sievers’ work is a pictorial timeline showing Australia’s social, technological and industrial transformation.

Module

This resource is aligned to the Australian Curriculum: Design and Technologies standards for Year 5 and 6. It draws on the Library’s Wolfgang Sievers Collection to explore how photography, design and industry have transformed modern Australia, encouraging students to investigate how technologies are developed, used, and understood in social and environmental contexts.

Module

This resource is aligned to the Australian Curriculum: HASS for Year 6 students.

Topic

The Library holds the archive of the first prime minister of Australia, Edmund Barton (1849–1920). 

A special screening of the award-winning documentary The Last Daughter.

A special National Reconciliation Week screening of the documentary Still We Rise (2022, 59 mins, unclassified).

Topic

For most of human history beyond living memory, the main way we know what life was like during the Medieval period is from documentary evidence that remains available to us.

Topic 

Explore how diverse communities have shaped modern Australian life through historical photographs from our collection.