A $2 million donation to State Library Victoria puts kids in charge
News:
Young Victorians keen to read and learn will be the main beneficiaries of the most recent $2 million donation to State Library Victoria.
January 29, 2019
News:
Young Victorians keen to read and learn will be the main beneficiaries of the most recent $2 million donation to State Library Victoria.
January 29, 2019
Our stories, People & professions:
For the Chinese immigrants who flocked to Victorian goldfields in the 1850s, the journey began in Canton or Hong Kong and included several months at sea before arriving in Victoria, or ‘New Gold Mountain’.
January 22, 2019
Our stories, People & professions, Social life & customs:
Piece together the stories of Mary Ann and Eliza Henty and their role in Victoria’s first European settlement.
January 18, 2019
Our Ebook collection is growing each month. We currently have over 16,000 ebooks available, including autobiographies, literary fiction, travel guides, young adult non-fiction, health and medicine, home and garden and much more. Explore the titles that were most popular in 2018.
January 10, 2019
Our stories, People & professions, Social life & customs:
Uprooted to join your husband of no more than a couple of years to settle in an unknown place. This is the story of the wives of the Henty brothers, early settlers credited with establishing Victoria’s first European settlement.
January 2, 2019
Learn about the history of immigration in Australia, from the First Fleet and the Gold Rush to WWI and the White Australia policy.