The Canberra & District Historical Society proudly presented the 2024 Canberra Day Oration.

The Canberra & District Historical Society proudly presented the 2025 Canberra Day Oration.

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.

Editor Esther Anatolitis was in the National Library Bookshop for a conversation and readings with contributors from Australia’s leading journal of writing and ideas to launch Meanjin’s Spring 2024 edition.

The Canberra Writers Festival was back for another year with a weekend of all things books and writing.

Canberra Writer's Festival Artistic Director, Beejay Silcox, talked about the festival and the inaugural meeting of Canberra’s Biggest Book Club. 

While Captain Cook's journal from the H.M.S. Endeavour is often on display in the Library's Treasures Gallery, it is currently not on display to allow rest and treatment for the long term preservation of the item.

Jane Jolly, illustrated by Liz Duthie

Explore the dance style of Gertrud Bodenwieser through photographs with 2023 National Library Fellow Wesley Lim.

Photographer David Paterson documented public reactions to the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.