Find immigration records, shipping and passenger lists for fare-paying passengers, assisted migrants and crew members to reveal key details about your family members arrival in Australia.

Hear Oxford academic Professor Emma Smith, the world’s leading Shakespeare scholar, discuss Shakespeare’s First Folio as part of its 400 year anniversary.

See Dr Kate Flaherty and actors from Bell Shakespeare explore the link between the books that inspired Shakespeare and Shakespeare's own work.

Celebrate William Shakespeare's birthday with Shakespearean gems from the National Library's rare books collections.

The Seymour Biography Lecture provides eminent life writers with an opportunity to explore the business and craft of biography, autobiography or memoir.

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Understand how advertising to attract migrants and visitors is linked to Australia's immigration policies with this teaching resource.

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The postwar era saw advertising reflect notions of the ideal Australian home, of masculinity and feminine beauty and of health.

Overseas resources are selectively collected, reflecting the Library’s commitment to inform and enhance Australians’ understanding of their region and their place in the world.

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Explore how Second Wave feminism and social changes in the 20th century reshaped women’s rights, roles, and aspirations in society.