We're celebrating five years of the National edeposit service (NED). Tracing your family history with the Library’s charts and forms Learn about the Library's family history research charts and how to ...

The National Library of Australia acknowledges Australia’s First Nations Peoples – the First Australians – as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of this land and gives respect to the Elders – past ...

In August 1943, in the midst of the Second World War, the first two women to be elected to the Federal Parliament of Australia were Dame Enid Lyons for the Tasmanian seat of Darwin in the House of ...

We often don’t realise we’re living through a major historical moment until the time has passed. The pandemic we find ourselves in now is one such historical moment. Dr Chris Wallace and Professor ...

Join us and VIP reader Gabby Millgate online for National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) as we head into the world of Whitney and Britney Chicken Divas. Every year, the Australian Library and ...

For National Family History Month this year we asked staff from the Special Collections Research & Support team to answer frequently asked questions about shipping and immigration. In our earlier blog ...

The Chinese collection of the National Library is a rich source of information on the history, culture and current affairs of China. The collection is the largest in Australia and focuses primarily on ...

Theses completed for higher research degrees (PhD, Masters or Honours) form an important body of original research. There are a number of places you can search for Australian theses, we have outlined ...

You may find that not all information about a convict is recorded on the Ticket of Leave Butts 1827-1867, particularly for earlier records. There were consequences for not producing a Ticket of Leave ...

Norfolk Island has one cemetery, located at Kingston, on the shores of the aptly named Cemetery Bay. Burials have taken place here from the period of the first settlement to the present day. Currently ...

Electoral rolls list people who are registered and eligible to vote at federal, state, territory and local government elections and referenda. Before Federation and for some years afterwards, there ...

Early nineteenth-century gazettes served as general newspapers as well as government gazettes. Before 1940, territory ordinances, including those of the ACT and Northern Territory, were published in ...