Reminiscences from 1965
Social life & customs, Such was life:
In 1965, some older Victorians wrote short essays for a competition, recalling their early lives.
Articles by: Paul Dee
Wikimedians-in-residence
People & professions, Victorian history:
The Library has hosted two Wikimedians this year as they worked on improving the visibility of Australian feminist activists, organisations, and movements.
Radical Acts
Radical Acts is a project to address gender bias in Wikipedia and the Library’s records by improving the representation of Australian feminist activists and movements.
Digitised dogs
Celebrating this much loved (and digitised) species on International Dog Day.
Nineteenth century Victorians
Photography, Social life & customs, Such was life:
The Etkins collection consists of wonderful portraits of people and places throughout 19th century Victoria.
Just digitised: High rise towers
The painting ‘High rise towers’ looks at the lockdown imposed on the residents of the Flemington commission units in 2020.
Digitising The Sun
The Sun News-Pictorial captured so many Victorian stories. Its extensive coverage of local events, showing familiar places and faces, resonated with Victorians. After 100 years, it’s time to make these stories accessible to all by digitising the daily paper.
Sufficiently educated
Social life & customs, Such was life:
Maybe you received a Victorian Certificate of Education? Or a Higher School Certificate? A School Tertiary Certificate? Leaving? School graduation requirements have come a long way from having to be ‘sufficiently educated’, as was the case in the 1870s.
The Library’s virtual volunteers
Some of the Library’s volunteers have been correcting the text of digitised historical Victorian newspapers, and in so doing, revealing more about our past.
