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The arch of strength and beauty

The Sydney Harbour Bridge — fondly nicknamed ‘the coathanger’ — will celebrate the 90th anniversary of its opening on 19 March 2022. 

Big bold botanicals

What could a twentieth-century artist’s book by surrealist Salvador Dali have in common with an early nineteenth-century French volume documenting the plants in a famous garden?

All the world

An incredibly rare map from 1628 has been added to the Library’s rich cartographic collections.

Convict women of Van Diemen’s Land

They are laundresses from Leitrim, housemaids from Manchester, Wigan and London, and women who worked in skilled trades.

All’s fair in love and war

From the 16th century onwards, many mapmakers attempted to draw one of the most mysterious and treacherous terrains — the human heart.