Happy 100th birthday Ginger! Ginger Meggs, Australia’s longest running comic strip character and national icon, burst to life on 13 November 1921. Read more State Library of NSW
Take 5 bird artists Discover some of our favourite bird artists from the collection. Read more State Library of NSW
Sex and censorship all at sea In 1946, decades before Banned Books Week (26 September – 2 October) was launched, Robert S Close’s Love Me Sailor was ruled obscene and its author jailed. Read more State Library of NSW
Take 5 lighthouses For International Lighthouse Heritage Weekend (21-22 August), we’re shining a spotlight on five lighthouses from the collection. Read more State Library of NSW
History of a house Have you ever wondered who lived in your house before you? Read more State Library of NSW
A stalled sequel … Miles Franklin’s glorious heroine from My Career Goes Bung — Sybylla is still as wilful, talented and funny today as she was 75 years ago. Read more State Library of NSW
The Flame The Olympic torch relay, and its climactic cauldron-lighting, is inextricably woven into the lore of The Games. Read more State Library of NSW
130 years of the Kelmscott Press William Morris (1834–1896) — British artist, designer, craftsman, writer and socialist — established the Kelmscott Press at Hammersmith, London, in January 1891. Read more State Library of NSW