Wendingen: Designing modernity
Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
Anna Welch introduces us to an art magazine that is itself a work of art
Articles by: News Editor
State Library Annual Appeal launches
News:
Our goal is to raise $80,000 to secure three literary treasures and the imagination and creativity they embody.
A moa for all seasons, now showing in Mirror of the world
We highlight the work of controversial natural historian Richard Owen in our Mirror of the World exhibition
A bohemian football match
The costume football match in 1881 featured players dressed as characters from opera, tragedy, comedy, farce and pantomime.
Poets at war: ‘What passing bells for these who die as cattle?’
Exhibitions, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
Anna Welch introduces us to some of the great poets of the First World War, currently highlighted in The Mirror of the World exhibition
Death on the Pyramids
Some soldiers in Egypt during World War I were so taken by the pyramids, they decided to climb them, with tragic results.
William Burroughs: Beat Icon
This year, Mirror of the World features a selection of works by William Burroughs (1914–1997), who, in the centenary year of his birth, still casts a long shadow on literary and cultural landscapes.
Matthew Flinders’ cat
People & professions, Such was life:
One of my favourite books in our children’s collection is a story written by explorer Matthew Flinders about his cat, Trim. This story languished for many years in the archives of the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, until it was discovered and published in the literary magazine Overland in 1973.
Researching your multicultural ancestors – new research guide
Family matters, Research guides:
To coincide with the theme of this year’s Family History Feast, we have released a new Family History research guide called Researching your multicultural ancestors.
Martin Sharp: Designing 1960s counterculture
Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
Anna Welch highlights some Australian psychedelia currently on show in our Mirror of the World exhibition
