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Dr Meg Brayshaw

Rethinking realism: Dymphna Cusack and Kylie Tennant

Dr Meg Brayshaw presents her recent Fellowship research into the work of two prominent Australian women writers, Dymphna Cusack and Kylie Tennant.

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Researching a biography of scriptwriter and playwright Eleanor Witcombe

Learn about the fascinating career of Eleanor Witcombe with 2023 National Library Fellow and biographer Eleanor Hogan.

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Professor Matthew Spriggs is standing in front wooden bookshelves filled with books. He is wearing glasses, a red short-sleeve shirt patterned with yellow bananas and a black hat.

Prof Matthew Spriggs

Recovering Vanuatu's indigenous literature

Prof Matthew Spriggs talked about his recent Fellowship research focused on the indigenous languages of Vanuatu.

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Watch Dr Kate Warren's Fellowship presentation titled 'Cut-out-and-keep: magazines and the popularisation of Australian art in the 1950s and 1960s'.

Q&A with 2022 National Library of Australia Fellow Dr Kate Warren

Kate’s research focused on the role of popular magazines in Australian art history and arts communication in the 1950s and 1960s.


 

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Bill Mihalopoulos
Q&A with 2021 National Library Fellow Dr Bill Mihalopoulos

We spoke to Dr Bill Mihalopoulos about his research using the Harold S Williams collection and time at the Library. 

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Black Resources Centre, Black Liberation/Black Resources Centre, 1975, nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1649258

Publishing the anti-colonial struggle with Dr Angelique Stastny

Dr Angélique Stastny presented a lecture on her 2021 National Library Fellowship research about anti-colonial activist publications in Australia and the Pacific.

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Power and vision: Australia and the South Pacific Commission

2025 National Library of Australia Fellow Dr Alexis Bergantz shared his Fellowship research on the history of the South Pacific Commission.

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Pakies Club

Pakies Club, Pakie's Club Interior from Records, 1928-1994 MS9071, nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1420498

Pakie's Club: A modern arts salon in interwar Sydney with Dr Deirdre O’Connell

Hear from Dr Deirdre O’Connell as she presents a lecture on her 2023 National Library Fellowship research about the extraordinary influence of Augusta 'Pakie' Macdougall who brought suffragist activism, Greenwich Village’s salon culture, and the Little Theatre movement to interwar Sydney.

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Dr Shine Choi

North Korea’s third world diplomacy through culture and art

Dr Shine Choi presents her recent Fellowship research, focusing on North Korea’s connections with the visions of the global world.

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National Library of Australia Fellowships

Financial and research support for experienced researchers in various fields and disciplines.

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Summer Scholars, NLA Fellows and Asia Study Grant recipients in residence at the National Library in February 2022.

National Library of Australia Fellows

 Meet the researchers awarded NLA Fellowships and explore their work. 

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Helen Garner and Drusilla Modjeska, image courtesy of Drusilla Modjeska.

Mining Modjeska’s archive with Dr Bernadette Brennan

Dr Bernadette Brennan presented a lecture on her 2024 National Library Fellowship research into the archives of award-winning author and editor Drusilla Modjeska.

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