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A black and white image of 5 dogs in an old fashioned open top car.

Five bulldogs clambering out of an open top car, New South Wales, c.1930s, nla.gov.au/nla.obj-162452856, courtesy Fairfax Syndication

New NLA Publishing title set to get tails wagging
23 Mar 2023

Australians love dogs—big dogs, little dogs, fluffy couch potatoes and hardy working dogs.

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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
16 Mar 2023

The National Library has a range of Fellowships and Scholarships available to researchers, writers, artists, and younger scholars.

Dr Kate Warren, a Senior Lecturer in Art History and Curatorship at the Australian National University, was a 2022 recipient of a National Library of Australia Fellowship.


 

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Two portrait photographs side by side. The one on the left is a sepia toned image of a woman with a 1950s hairstyle and a fur around her neck The one on the right is a black and white image of a woman with a 1950 hairstyle wearing a dark velvet-looking dress.
First Women in federal parliament - Dame Enid Lyons and Dame Dorothy Tangney
08 Mar 2023

The National Library has recently digitised two letters from the collections of Enid Lyons and Dorot

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An image of a black and white photo, some yarn and sewing cotton and knitting needles on a green background.

Photograph of Florence, Ella and Hazel Porter, circa late 1940s, with sewing and knitting tools, including a wooden darning egg, courtesy of Miss Porter's House.

Apply now for Community Heritage Grants
06 Mar 2023

Applications are now open for the 2023 Community Heritage Grants (CHG) program.

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Eleven people posed for a photo under the National Library's exterior colonnade.

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

Fellowships 2024: see your research come together
02 Mar 2023

Applications for 2024 National Library of Australia Fellowships, Creative Arts Fellowships and the Folk Fellowship open on 3 March 2023.

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Rare Books Swimming - Roger Lever

Frontispiece and title page of Melchisédech Thévenot, The Art of Swimming. The second edition. London: Printed for John Lever, 1764, nla.cat-vn7756220

Rare book highlights – Swimming in 1764
27 Feb 2023

This blog, by the Library’s Rare Books and Music Curator Dr Susannah Helman, explores this charming little book, just in time for the last days of summer. It may even be helpful the next time you take the plunge!

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Reckoning: A Memoir by Magda Szubanski

Australian pride histories and biographies: Recommendations from the National Library
22 Feb 2023

To mark WorldPride 2023 and the 45th Anniversary of the Sydney Mardi Gras, the National Library has curated a selection of books on the LGBTQIA+ experience and culture.

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Photograph of three women, with sewing and knitting tools


Photograph of Florence, Ella and Hazel Porter, circa late 1940s, with sewing and knitting tools, including a wooden darning egg.

Community Heritage Grant: Miss Porter's House
20 Feb 2023

The Community Heritage Grant program supports local groups to access professional cultural heritage expertise.

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A watercolour illustration of an emu standing on one leg next to a nest of teal eggs

A watercolour illustration from Have You Seen My egg?

NLA Publishing celebrates the 10th anniversary of ‘Have You Seen My Egg?’
16 Feb 2023

To celebrate 10 years of this classic children’s title, NLA Publishing is producing an anniversary edition of Have You Seen My Egg?.

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View of the National Library of Australia with a reflection of the building appearing in the water.
Library Lovers’ Day
14 Feb 2023

Visitors to the National Library were recently asked to nominate what it is they love about the Library.

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A black and white image of a group of mean demonstrating. The man front and centre is holding a microphone to his mouth, while the man to the right is holding a megaphone speaker up in the air. There are placards and flags in the air in the background.

William Yang, Dennis Altman and Craig Johnston, Gay Demonstration, Macquarie Street, Sydney, 1981, nla.obj-136863821

A new oral history interview with Dennis Altman
09 Feb 2023

In 2022, Australian writer, academic and gay rights campaigner Dennis Altman was interviewed by Robert Reynolds for the National Library's Oral History collection.

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That's Out! by Dickie Bird

That's Out! by Dickie Bird

What's hot in non-fiction: Summer reading suggestions your National Librarians
27 Jan 2023

Reading suggestions of the non-fiction kind for readers young and not-so-young.

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