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Inside cover of report with picture of two bottled beers and a stemmed glass full of beer, in the background two women sit on sun-terrace.

I feel like a Tooheys ... or two

Research in the Library’s manuscripts collection can be thirsty work.

I feel like a Tooheys ... or two

Art of Newcastle

An Aboriginal leader’s assistance to the artists of the Newcastle penal settlement led to an unprecedented visual record of the local Indigenous people.

Art of Newcastle

View at Oldbury, c 1826, by Charlotte Atkinson

Finding Charlotte

Two writers’ search for their mysterious and talented forebear was full of archival riches.

Finding Charlotte

An illustration of a social hall, with ladies in dresses accompanied by men in tailcoats.

Power and influence on the Cumberland Plain

Sydney’s colonial gentry built mansions, held lavish parties and amassed fortunes beyond the imagination of their English relations.

Power and influence on the Cumberland Plain

Mutiny & murder

How the horrific tale of the Batavia shipwreck became one of the first true crime bestsellers.

Mutiny & murder