Read about Creative Arts Fellow Celia Craig's experience of exploring the papers of musician Miriam Hyde. We're celebrating five years of the National edeposit service (NED). Tracing your family ...

Surveyor Thomas Scott Townsend (1812–1869) is an elusive, almost legendary figure, closer to folklore than to history. His name is given to the country’s second highest mountain, but the details of ...

Australians have often gone to great lengths to see their favourite sporting teams, even back in the 1860s. This is evidenced ...

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 ...

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 ...

Following a comprehensive process, the library has selected the open-source FOLIO library services platform for its next-generation library management system. A library management system is the ...

Theses completed for higher research degrees (PhD, Masters or Honours) form an important body of original research. There are a number of places you can search for Australian theses, we have outlined ...

Access to Records by Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants Assistance with records searching is available if you are a Forgotten Australian, Former Child Migrant (sometimes referred to as a ...

You may find that not all information about a convict is recorded on the Ticket of Leave Butts 1827-1867, particularly for earlier records. There were consequences for not producing a Ticket of Leave ...

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 ...

Australian newspapers in the Library's collection are categorized and stored according to format. You can identify if the newspaper you have located in our catalogue ...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this research guide contains the names and images of people who are now deceased. Talk to as many family members as you can. Family ...