Books from National Library Australia

  • The Intimate Archive: Journeys Through Private Papers
    By Maryanne Dever, Ann Vickery, Sally Newman

    Lethbridge: University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, 2004, p. 1 1 . 55 Both Catherine Hobbs and Barbara Craig have argued for a reconceptualisation of literary archival practice to foreground the active, interpretative role of the ...

  • Griffith Taylor: Visionary Environmentalist Explorer
    By Alison Bashford, Carolyn Strange

    Elizabeth Baigent , 2004 , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , viewed 8 January 2008 at dx.doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/32764 ; G.P. Walsh , * Debenham , Frank ( 1883–1965 ) ' , Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition ...

  • In Search of Beauty: Hilda Rix Nicholas' Sketchbook Art
    By Karen Johnson

    There was much excitement when an exhibition of Hilda's work, Exposition de tableaux d'Australie, opened at the Galerie Georges Petit on 16 January 1925. It was the first time any artist had exhibited works in Paris composed entirely of ...

  • A Collector's Book of Australian Dance
    By Michelle Potter

    Angela Lynkushka ( b.1947 ) Portrait of Sue Healey 1992 Jeff Schultz ( left to right ) Annabel Reid ,. 88.

  • A Delicate Mission: The Washington Diaries of R.G. Casey, 1940-42
    By Richard Gardiner Casey Baron Casey

    My main object in seeing Harry Hopkins was to seek to impress him with the idea that it would be wise to see that the President's mind was not bombarded with pessimism and depression by the US Army and Navy , who are mighty likely to be ...

  • Preservation Microfilming: Does it Have a Future? : Proceedings of the First National Conference of the National Preservation Office, at...
    By National Library of Australia. National Preservation Office. National Conference, Jan Lyall, National Library of Australia. National Preservation Office

    Proceedings of the First National Conference of the National Preservation Office, at the State Library of South Australia, ... Although there are variations in the presentation of statistics , a figure of 20 per cent ...

  • Bibliography of Australia
    By John Alexander Ferguson

    Melbourne : | Printed by Wilson , Mackinnon & Fairfax , | 78 , Collins Street , East . 1856 . 12mo . Pp . 12 . Green paper wrappers with cover title as above . Copies : M.L .; N.L. 10333 Plutology | or the theory of the efforts to ...

  • Douglas Stewart: A Bibliography
    By Susan P. Ballyn Jenney

    Flora Robson ' Bulletin , 18/1/1961 , 29. Review of Dunbar , J. , Flora Robson . 643. ' Three Plays by Wesker ' Bulletin , 28/12/1960 , 49. Review of Wesker , A. , The Wesker Trilogy . 652. ' Archibald Prize Exhibition Bulletin ...

  • The Endless Playground: Celebrating Australian Childhood
    By National Library of Australia

    1 , no 1 ( Autumn , 1991 ) Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission , Bringing Them Home : National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families ( Sydney : HREOC , 1997 ) Mirror ...

  • Our Multicultural Heritage, 1788-1945: An Annotated Guide to the Collections of the National Library of Australia
    By National Library of Australia

    Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission , The Call for Recognition : A Report on the Situation of Australian South Sea Islanders . Sydney : The Commission , 1993 , 108 pp . , bibliog . , illus . NL 305.8995094 A938 Contains a ...

  • Australian Autobiographical Narratives: To 1850
    By Kay Walsh, Joy W. Hooton

    In August 1840 Miller and a companion Joseph Steward escaped from Lovely Banks, but were soon recaptured, tried and sentenced to two years penal service at Port Arthur. Initially Miller and Steward suffered so severely when placed on ...

  • Australian Autobiographical Narratives: 1850-1900
    By Kay Walsh, Joy W. Hooton

    DUNN , JOHN ( 1802-94 ) A miller's tale : the memoirs of John Dunn of Mount Barker ( edited by Anthony Stuart ) . Kingswood , SA : Waterwheel Books , 1991 , 146 pp . , index , port . Throughout his memoirs , which span his life from ...

  • This Errant Lady: Jane Franklin's Overland Journey to Port Philip and Sydney, 1839
    By Jane Franklin

    ... Mr (merchant) 32 Brown, Robert 60,61,63,64,65,221 Bulli,NSW 105,106 bullock driver 36 bullock drays 20,60,72,73,82,83 bullock teams drowning in mud 15,168 Dr Hobson 42; Davey, Colonel 138,129 Darling, Eliza, Lady 118,233 260.

  • Cage of Ghosts

    For four months he lived in Canberra and researched the history of all the places he had photographed for this National Library exhibition. The book, Cage of Ghosts,was published in late 2008.

  • Dark and Hurrying Days: Menzies' 1941 Diary
    By Robert Menzies

    ... John Hay (Ian Hay) (1876-1952), 121 Benes, Eduard, 29 Berryman, Frank Horton (Brigadier), 32 Bessemer Clark, ... Thomas W.H. Inskip, Viscount (1876-1947), 61 Cameron, Don (Flight Sgt), 94 Campbell, Sir Ronald Hugh (1883-1953), 57-8, ...

  • Governors' Wives in Colonial Australia
    By Anita Selzer

    Thisdiscussion draws on K. Daniels, Convict Women. Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1998. ... Letter, 21 May 1899, Audrey, Lady Tennyson to Zacyntha Boyle. Papers of Audrey, Lady Tennyson. Letter, 2July 1899, ibid. Letter, 19 November 1900, ibid.

  • The Scythe Honed Fine: A.D. Hope : a Celebration on the Occasion of His 90th Birthday
    By Alec Derwent Hope

    Poetry by A.D. Hope with an introductory essay about the poet.

  • Cook's Endeavour Journal: The Inside Story
    By Susan Hall, Martin Terry

    ... started water but threw'd over board our guns Iron and stone ballast, Casks, Hoops staves oyle Jars, decay'd stores &Ca many ofthese last articles lay in the way at coming at heavyer - all this time the Ship made little or no water.

  • Glimpses of Paradise: The Quest for the Beautiful Parrakeet
    By Penny Olsen

    A more confident Jerrard wrote most enthusiastically of the 1930 RAOU Congress and Campout on Fraser Island , which was not attended by Chisholm . His journal entry covers 10 pages , whereas the earlier Congress received a few lines .

  • Australia's Timeless Gardens
    By Judith Baskin, Trisha Dixon

    Through Box hedgealongIhe carriageway in 1859 Durham Hall, Rraidwood, New South Wales From the Pictorial Collection The same carriageway more than a century later Durham Hall, Braidwood, New South Wales Photograph by Trisha Dixon ...