Biography

A historian shares her delight in the recently acquired Fairfax Media Business Archive.

A Library fellowship uncovered an archive of emotion in the correspondence of Henry Parkes and Thomas Woolner.

Among the papers of the Scott brothers, who settled in the Hunter Valley in the 1820s, is a manual for frontier living.

Flinders proved that Tasmania was an island, traced the coasts of the Australian continent and was the first person to use ‘Australian’ to describe the inhabitants of this land. He named nothing after himself.

The Library celebrates International Women's Day by honouring the legacy of female Librarians.

‘Heaven could be no more magical and mystical than unspoiled Australia' - the brilliant career of Miles Franklin.

The continuing boom in family history research is having a far-reaching impact on how people understand themselves and the world. 

In the current era of instant digital communication, letters between long-distance lovers have a particular poignancy.

Australia played an important role in Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.

An eccentric French nobleman, a letter about Cook’s Endeavour voyage and an enduring bibliographic mystery come together in the Library’s Banks collection. 

Stylish and talented architect-designer Douglas Snelling introduced modern American living styles to aspirational Sydneysiders after the Second World War.

Between 1919 and 1930  Andre Breton published experimental texts that defined the Surrealist movement.

In 1854, William Henry Hudson ran a small carpentry business from Regent Street, Redfern. 25 years later Hudson Brothers was one of Australia's biggest companies. 

Hurley's photographs of the western front in 1917 and the Middle East in 1918 are arresting and iconic.

From tales of colonial adventure to moralising educational tracts, children’s literature in nineteenth-century Australia played a significant role in educating children as the nation’s future citizens.