We’re pleased to announce that 55 community-led organisations will receive a Community Heritage Grant (CHG) in 2024.

Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) is the traditional knowledge, traditional cultural expression, and cultural heritage of Indigenous peoples. The Library has developed a protocol to ...

Prison hulks were floating prisons used from 1776 as temporary accommodation for prisoners from overcrowded jails. A hulk is a ship that is still afloat but unable to put to sea. The ships were ...

The content of historical birth, death and marriage certificates can vary between each State and Territory. The details contained on certificates also depends on the knowledge of the person who ...

The National Library of Australia acknowledges Australia’s First Nations Peoples – the First Australians – as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of this land and gives respect to the Elders – past ...

Keepsakes: Australians and the Great War was the National Library of Australia's exhibition showcasing items from the collections relating to the First World War. Read this essay by exhibition curator ...

Many protest movements in Australia have resulted from dramatic shifts in public opinion on contentious issues, and as a response to how governments of the time dealt with these shifting opinions. The ...

In 1924 aerial photographs were taken of the Great Barrier Reef for use by the Australian Army in its topographical mapping. In 1928 the Royal Australian Air Force first became involved in aerial ...

New South Wales Surveyor-General, Parish of Warroo, county of Murray, land district of Yass, National Library of Australia, MAP RM 1910. The Library holds a range of Australian property mapping useful ...

The Cambridge Dictionary defines fake news as “false stories that appear to be news, spread on the internet or using other media, usually created to influence political views or as a joke.” Dictionary ...

The arrival of an ancestor in Australia is a key moment in a family's history. They may have arrived as a fare-paying passenger, as an 'assisted' migrant, a member of a ship's crew, in military or ...