Australians have often gone to great lengths to see their favourite sporting teams, even back in the 1860s. This is evidenced by the recently acquired diary kept by George Thomson in 1868-69. Thomson ...

The arrival of the First Fleet on Gadigal land at Sydney Cove in 1788 brought around 1,400 convicts, sailors, soldiers and administrators to Australia. Over the next 100 years the British occupied ...

The Treasures Gallery showcases the extraordinary holdings of the National Library of Australia. Our vast collection is primarily composed of documentary resources of national significance relating to ...

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 ...

Professor John Maynard is a Worimi man from the Port Stephens region of New South Wales. He is the Director of the Purai Global Indigenous and Diaspora Research Studies Centre and one of the world’s ...

Preserved in the National Library of Australia’s Manuscripts Collection, along with Cook’s handwritten journal, are another set of instructions. These were ‘hints’ provided to Cook by the president of ...

If the person you are researching was involved in an organisation, you can search these records to find more information about their life and work. These records consist of: Published material by 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...