Use this guide to help find and access resources about the movements that have shaped social and cultural change in Australia.

We hold a national series of aerial photographs of Australia collected between 1928 and 1988. Use this guide to help you find and access photography of Australian states and territories in our collection and beyond.  

A large collection of glass negatives, papers and photographs dating mostly from 1904 to 1940 depicting many aspects of Australian life and architecture

Get help to find and access material from the Library’s Chinese collection and beyond.

The Library commissioned photographers to capture the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup.

Take a look at some of the postcards we hold from the first half of the twentieth century and the messages they were sent with.

The Library has recently acquired 3 photographs from a Rational Dress Movement picnic in 1895.

An 1827 illustration of an echidna has recently been added to our collection.

Four photographs of the 2022 Pacifica Youth Rugby Cup have recently been added to our collection.

Photographer David Paterson documented public reactions to the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.

The National Library's Asian language collections focus on contemporary Asia from the 19th century onwards.

The National Library has recently acquired a rare portrait miniature of Sir Thomas Brisbane, the sixth Governor of New South Wales.