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Due to the rapidly evolving COVID-19 situation, the State Library is closed onsite temporarily. The Library is open online.
Spectacular illusions, bamboozling tricks, and death-defying escapes — step behind the velvet curtain and be amazed as Australia’s stage magic history is revealed.
Darug knowledge-holders, artists and educators Leanne Watson, Jasmine Seymour, Erin Wilkins and Rhiannon Wright share their culture and stories of special sites along Dyarubbin (the Hawkesbury river).
An ever changing selection of fascinating items from the Library's extraordinary collection.
Sculpture busts, miniature portraits, ceramics, coins, medals, cutlery, teacups, typewriters, convict bricks and much more!
More than 300 original artworks from the Library’s unique collection of landscape and portrait paintings.
Eve Langley and The Pea Pickers offers a biography that unravels the life and the fiction, and the result is a fascinating and ultimately poignant tale.
Set sail on this virtual excursion to discover more about the First Fleet.
Learn how to think like a historian in this skills-focused virtual excursion.
Significant Individuals: Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson
Tuesday
Tuesday, 3 August 2021 - 10am to 10:45am
Step back in time to 1813 and follow the journey of Gregory Blaxland, William Charles Wentworth and William Lawson.
Scholar Talk: Lesbian Sydney in the 1990s
Tuesday
Tuesday, 3 August 2021 - 11am to 12pm
This talk will explore the important role of Wicked Women and LOTL magazines in connecting and building lesbian communities in Sydney during the 1990s.
Join the rush to learn about striking it lucky in the 1850s.
From government to literature, civil rights to agriculture, this line-up of women has a big story to tell.
Convicts, settlers and soldiers: how to find your ancestors in the AJCP
Wednesday
Wednesday, 4 August 2021 - 10:30am to 11:30am
In exciting news for family historians, the State Library of NSW has launched the Australian Joint Copying Project Research Guide.
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