Our newspaper collections include digitised historic and modern newspapers accessible online, as well as newspapers in microform and paper formats.

A letter from Sir John Franklin to Captain John Washington from 1839 was recently acquired by the Library.

Christopher Cheng, illustrated by Di Wu

With the Opalgate Foundation’s support, we are creating a new lifelong learning space on our website.

Australians love dogs—big dogs, little dogs, fluffy couch potatoes and hardy working dogs.

This is one of the unexpected stories of Fred Ward aka Captain Thunderbolt, who was known as the ‘gentleman bushranger’.

The voices of Australia’s gutsy women journalists are being brought to life in a new season of the National Library of Australia’s podcast, Bookmark This.  

Hopes & Fears: Australian Migration Stories showcases how migrants, who have come from all parts of the globe, have helped to make Australia one of the most diverse nations in the world.

50 years on, we look back on this amazing year and reflects on what it was like to live in the seventies.

Margaret Lilardia Tucker MBE was a significant Aboriginal activist and one of the first Aboriginal women to publish for mainstream audiences.