The National Library of Australia acknowledges Australia’s First Nations Peoples – the First Australians – as the Traditional ...

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 internet is a valuable aid to research into family history. Australian websites contain a variety of information relating to family history and genealogy including guides, indexes and digitised ...

This guide will help you find information about court cases. It explains how to find law reports and court records (including judgments and transcripts), both at the National Library and online. A ...

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 ...

Captain Cook is a name synonymous with exploration. In the Pacific region, he is most remembered for his circumnavigation of New Zealand, the first such voyage made by Europeans; mapping of the ...

On Friday 19th April, the President of the Myer Foundation, Rupert Myer AO, delivered the keynote speech at the Library’s 2024 Patron Dinner. In it, he reflected on the role of libraries: They are ...