Tess Scholfield-Peters tells her grandfather’s story with three intertwining threads.

The voices of Australia’s gutsy women journalists are being brought to life in a new season of the National Library of Australia’s podcast, Bookmark This.  

Explore the crossover of two masters of their crafts with these beautiful sketches and designs.

Take a look at some of the letters sent from overseas to friends and family back in Australia during the First and Second World Wars.

The Library has recently acquired two 17th century globe gores by Vincenzo Coronelli.

Explore the dance style of Gertrud Bodenwieser through photographs with 2023 National Library Fellow Wesley Lim.

The Library is recording interviews with a diverse range of Australians to ensure that stories of the COVID-19 pandemic are captured for present and future generations.

Today, we can find the meaning of a word online. In the past, we only had physical dictionaries. (I had a 1980 reprint of The Australian Pocket Oxford Dictionary (1976), covered in royal blue contact paper.)

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.

There’s something for everyone at the National Library this April.

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

Dive into the records of the Australian Women Pilots’ Association and some of the stories they tell about early Australian female pilots.