Two new books in The Artists of the National Library of Australia series will be published in February 2025.

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Children develop their sense of self through relationships with friends and families. Many early Australian children’s novels depict families on the move from Britain to Australia. Some struggled to establish a life in the harsh outback.

Dr Kate Flaherty, senior Lecturer in English and Drama at ANU, and actors from Bell Shakespeare uncovered one of the most amusing and successful literary hoaxes of all time.

Australian slang unites the ‘true blue’ and the ‘dinky-di’, and separates the ‘cheeky little possums’ from the ‘happy little Vegemites’.

H.G. Nelson

Around 400 Slavic monographs, 700 pamphlets on the economics and politics of Europe from the 1930s-1970s, and miscellaneous Harvard University departmental reports and academic papers.

Personal papers of Warren Fahey’s activities as an entrepreneur, musician and writer from 1967-1998 and a collection of folkloric recordings.

2023-24 snapshot: The year at a glance