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Delve into Ireland’s rich history and culture with the Auchmuty Collection. Featuring rare books, pamphlets, and journals from 1900 to 1950, this specialised resource explores Anglo-Irish relations, the Irish Free State, and more. A treasure trove for researchers, donated by Margaret Auchmuty in 1983.

Topic 

Discover the origins of Australia Day and guide students to consider what it means  to different people using promotional material from our collection.

Explore 2 different examples of artistic responses to the Second World War. 

Hear from Colin Thiele, Kylie Tennant, Gabrielle Wang, Doris Pilkington, Norman Lindsay and Christina Stead as they share their thoughts, memories and creative journeys.

Peter Macinnis

Tripitakas, books and audio recordings dealing with Buddhist history, biography, literature, doctrines, philosophy and way of life and Buddhist folk tales.

Discover more about the legislation of the Australian Capital Territory.

This oral history project underpins a broader Australian Centre for Paralympic Studies project to capture and preserve the history of Paralympic sport.

Module

This resource is aligned with the Australian Curriculum: English for Year 4 students. It has been developed to use National Library collection material as the basis for an exploration of children’s literature as part of the literature strand of the English learning area.