Enter the musical world of Stuart and Georgian Britain, a world of concert-going, music-makers and thinkers, of printers and publishers. The exhibition features exquisite and intriguing rare prints, ...

The National Library of Australia acknowledges Australia’s First Nations Peoples – the First Australians – as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of this land and gives respect to the Elders – past ...

The Villanueva Collection was purchased by the Library in 1969 through the Manila booksellers and publishers MCS Enterprises. The owner was the widow of José M. Villanueva, an attorney of Tabaco, ...

John Overton (1920–1991), né Hans Oberndorfer, was born in Germany and came to England with his father in 1927. He grew up at Sevenoaks, Kent. He was briefly interned at the beginning of the War and ...

Peter Joshua Sculthorpe (1929-2014) was born in Launceston, Tasmania, and was educated at Launceston Grammar School and the University of Melbourne. He began composing music as a young boy and several ...

Barry McDonald (b. 1955) grew up in Sydney and moved to Armidale in 1976. He studied history at the University of New England and acquired a strong interest in local history, oral history and folklore ...

Otto Pierre Nicholas Berkelbach van der Sprenkel (1906–1978) was born in Bussum in the Netherlands. He grew up in England and was a graduate of the London School of Economics. In 1931 he was appointed ...

Kenneth Richard Snell (1940–1993) was born in Melbourne and educated at St Joseph’s College, Geelong. He learnt violin at school, but his main interest was art. He was trained as an accountant and ...

Congratulations to the 23 recipients of National Library of Australia Fellowships, Scholarships, Creative Arts Fellowships and Asia Study Grants in 2025. Drawing on the Library’s extensive collections ...

Echoes of bushranging days (nla.cat-vn27449) and Van Dieman's Land map (nla.cat-vn2806339). The National Library has announced the 23 recipients of National Library of Australia Fellowships, ...

This year, Dr Tets Kimura joined us at the Library as one of our National Library of Australia Fellows. His research focused on exploring how Japanese fashion was influenced by social, cultural and ...

Learn about the research of 2024 National Library Scholar Zoe Smith and what she found during her time at the Library. Ada Cambridge and Rosa Praed were some of the most popular colonial female ...