We held for the Great Debate and the Great Student Debate during Social Sciences Week 2025.

Emma Allen & Lisa Coutts

Joanne Anderton, illustrated by Karen Erasmus

Learn about the real school ship Sobraon behind Sarah Luke and NLA Publishing's children's book Marion and the Forty Thieves.

The Library has recently acquired a journal recording the first Russian Antarctic expedition in 1819-21.

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Dive into the transformative period of Japan's history as it transitioned from feudal isolation to modernisation with the decline of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the Meiji Restoration.

Learn about the mantlepiece display at the entrance to our Hopes and Fears: Australian Migration Stories exhibition.

Enter the musical world of seventeenth and early nineteenth century Britain with rare prints, books and manuscripts.

A new exhibition is opening at the National Library of Australia, featuring exquisite and intriguing rare books, prints and manuscripts relating to music.

We joined Prof John Morrissey for a discussion about his recent Fellowship research focused on the environmental writing of renowned Australian poet and author Judith Wright.