Between 1998 and 2002, people from all over Australia told us their stories as part of the Bringing Them Home oral history project.

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Learn about Jacinta Mackay's NLA Scholarship research using the Bringing Them Home oral history recordings.

We reflected on the women's liberation movement of the 1970s and examined what feminist activism looks like today. 

Family papers, maps of the Hong Kong and Macau region, pictures, photographs and a large collection of books and pamphlets predominantly historical works, particularly histories of Portugal, the Portuguese colonies, China and Japan.

Overseas and Australian sheet music, including some manuscripts, with the main strengths popular songs and piano music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Oral history recordings by Ros Bowden for the Women of the land and Comic artists and illustrators projects.

Topic

Following the collapse of the western Roman Empire, Europe entered a period of cultural, political and economic change. The stabilising force of the Roman Empire gave way and new states and rulers stepped in to fill gaps.

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