Sofie Laguna wins Miles Franklin Literary Award
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Last week Sofie Laguna won the coveted Miles Franklin Literary Award, which was announced at State Library Victoria.
News:
Last week Sofie Laguna won the coveted Miles Franklin Literary Award, which was announced at State Library Victoria.
Exhibitions, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
Anna Welch introduces us to some beautiful Persian manuscripts currently on display in the Mirror of the World exhibition
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The first major retrospective of Australia’s most popular mid-19th century artist, opens at State Library Victoria 17 July.
Some of the boys, Mena 1915 H84.356/13 The annual Family History Feast hosted by the State Library of Victoria will be held on Monday 10 August 2015 during National Family… Read More ›
People & professions, Such was life:
In the 1920s Reverend George Wong was a minister at the Collingwood Methodist Church, helping the poor, teaching at kindergarten and lecturing around Victoria about the life of Melbourne’s poor with the help of a limelight projector.
Film, Painting, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
The Battle of Waterloo continues to fascinate, even 200 years after those ferocious days
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Throughout the year there are opportunities for Friends of the Library to go behind the scenes and enjoy the Library’s treasures.
People & professions, Such was life:
Ballarat: Sunday 8th July, 1855: ‘Got home and found the tent afloat and my blankets wet…Kindled fire and cleaned up tent. Boiled kettle and prepared supper. Ironing my blankets, I burned one of them.’