Our Special Collections Research & Support team have answered common questions that can help can uncover your ancestor’s migration story.

Our Special Collections Research & Support team are back with answers to more common questions that can help can uncover your ancestors' migration story.

Anna Dziedzic’s current research explores the moment of constitution-making, when the people of a nation decide to change their constitution or make a new one.

Attend our events and learn something new this November.

We are blooming with events for you to attend this October.

Participate in the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Annual Conference 2024 at the National Library.

Using the Library’s English and Chinese language material, Dr Yao-Tai Li set out to examine the daily experiences of Chinese migrants since the 1970s.

Read about Creative Arts Fellow Celia Craig's experience of exploring the papers of musician Miriam Hyde.

Australian slang unites the ‘true blue’ and the ‘dinky-di’, and separates the ‘cheeky little possums’ from the ‘happy little Vegemites’.

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

Applications for 2025 National Library of Australia Fellowships and Creative Arts Fellowships open on 12 March 2024

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