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 ...

There is some conjecture about the first European birth on Australian soil, but William Nash seems to be the prime candidate. His father, also William, was a Marine Private and his mother was Maria ...

When I tell people that I wrote a book about a colonial surveyor called Townsend, and that I spent almost seven years researching it, I am usually met with quizzical looks—it is rare for anyone to ...

Marian Ellis Ryan (1848–1922) was born in Melbourne. Her father was a grazier and her maternal grandfather was John Cotton, who wrote and illustrated two books on English birds. She attended a girls’ ...

Electoral rolls list people who are registered and eligible to vote at federal, state, territory and local government elections and referenda. Before Federation and for some years afterwards, there ...

During the World War II campaign in Papua New Guinea, there were a series of battles between the Australians and Japanese along the route across the Owen Stanley Range, which runs from Port Moresby to ...

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 ...

Locating the last resting places of our family and forebears can be an important aspect of our genealogical research. For many, it will eventually lead to a journey to those places and to the exact ...

Fellows and Scholars at the National Library, November 2023 – Dr Yao-Tai Li, Dr Alice Garner, Dr Mei-Fen Kuo, A/Prof Deane Williams, Dr Wesley Lim, Mr Sam Wallman, and Dr Gwyn McClelland. Welcome to ...

School’s in at the National Library’s Digital Classroom. Home to more than 10 million collection items, the National Library of Australia is the largest source of information in the world about ...

The resources available for each house may be different, due to the fact the availability, organisation, and location of records vary from state to state. The three sources most commonly used to ...

The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) is a collection of unique historical material relating to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific dating from 1560 to 1984. Records filmed by the AJCP ...