What's On
The Past and Future of Influenza Virus Pandemics
The 2019 Ben Haneman Memorial Lecture
Every Friday one of our Curators will take you through our exhibitions paying attention to their favourite items and sharing stories from the collections.
Join us for a full day of family fun at the State Library on Sunday 25 August, 10.30 to 3pm.
Paul Brunton: Lecture 3 - The Thrill of the Chase
Learn about the fascinating stories behind the great State Library of NSW collections.
Ancestry hands-on workshop - Family History Month
A practical session with an expert librarian who will show you how to best search Ancestry.
Sedition Festival 2019 is a celebration of public art and protest in the 1970s — a compelling, immersive art event focused on the Sydney underground.
Every Friday one of our Curators will take you through our exhibitions paying attention to their favourite items and sharing stories from the collections.
Are you tracing your family history and don’t know where to start?
Join us as we announce the winners of the 2019 NSW Premier’s History Awards and officially launch the start of History Week.
2019 Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award - Shortlist announcement
A special event announcing the 2019 Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award shortlist. This annual Award is a Waverley Council initiative celebrating excellence in research with a prize pool of $30,000.
A showcase of the State Library’s little known and rarely seen collections of high-impact, attention-grabbing poster art of the 60s, 70s and 80s.
Scholar Talk: ‘Together we stand for Empire Service’
About 7000 British youths arrived in Australia in the early twentieth century under the Dreadnought scheme of agricultural settlement. In this talk Ben will examine the different ways they were thought of.
How do individual and collective memories attach to cultural landscapes? In response to the History Week theme "Memory and Landscapes" two practitioners of public history and artistic interpretation reflect upon the significance of landscapes for our communities.