Over 32,000 items, including rare books, pamphlets, maps, and ephemera, covering topics such as Oceania, transport, and literature. Compiled by Sir John Alexander Ferguson, it is a key resource for Australian history and bibliography.

Explore the artistic legacy and complex history of Donald Friend through diaries, letters, and personal papers. 

Dr Tets Kimura presented a lecture on his 2023 National Library Fellowship research into how grief was experienced during the Asia-Pacific War in two different nations, Australia and Japan, and how it is identifiable in art and fashion.

91 charts of Australia and the Pacific produced by the British Admiralty and Hydrographic Service.

Hear from NLA Fellow Dr Gwyn McClelland about his research and time at the Library.

The National Library houses the largest and most actively developing research resource on Asia in Australia, with holdings of over half a million volumes.

Over 10,000 black and white negatives and colour transparencies, about 1000 exhibition prints, several photograph albums, a group of stereographs, plus maps, diaries and personal papers.

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Examine Japan under the Shoguns (794-1867), focusing on the feudal system and its societal impacts.

950 books on bibliography, history, law, religion, ethnography, archaeology and fine arts of Indonesia, 629 books relating to the languages of Austronesia and some manuscripts, including transcripts of a collection of Sudanese manuscripts.

Learn about the research of 2024 Asia Study Grant recipient Dr Anita Dewi.

A large number of photographs and negatives taken by Loke Wan Tho on his ornithological expeditions to the Pacific, Asia and Europe in the 1950s and early 1960s, as well as papers, books and maps.

Literary manuscripts submitted to the Bulletin in 1918–20, personal papers, 185 books related to Australia, some very rare, plus 30 books published in Tahiti by the London Missionary Society in 1817–37.