Ned Kelly is going on tour
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Ned Kelly’s armour, rifle and death mask will be on loan to Bendigo Art Gallery until 8 July.
Upcoming La Trobe Journal to focus on artists’ books
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The latest La Trobe Journal explores how more artists, printmakers and binders are creating and designing books than ever before.
Victorian libraries collaborating to commemorate WWI
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Victoria’s public libraries and the State Library have worked together in the lead-up to the Anzac centenary.
White Night Wonderland
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More than 19,000 culture vultures descended on the Library for White Night Melbourne last weekend.
Reading Matters 2015 program announced
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Hear from bestselling young-adult authors during the 11th biennial Reading Matters conference in May.
Bohemian Melbourne melody lingers on in Arts
Music, Popular music, Rare Books & Arts:
Even though the exhibition has finished, the melody lingers on in Arts. Currently featured on the Listening Posts are releases in popular and rock music from performers and bands associated with Bohemian Melbourne.… Read More ›
Does my bustle look big in this?
People & professions, Such was life:
The Centennial Exhibition of 1888 at Melbourne’s Exhibition Buildings was a motza for women. Posh citizens complained about the lack of servants – young women had flocked to the better pay and free fun down at the exhibition.
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
Bohemian Melbourne walking tour
Venture down history’s backstreets with this self-guided walking tour of bohemian Melbourne.
New books: some well known faces amongst them
It’s always good to meet old friends on the new books shelf, and make a few new friends as well.
Such was life
Mary Fortune: pioneer of Australian detective stories
Mary Fortune was the author of the longest running 19th-century crime fiction series published in a periodical and one of the earliest female crime writers in the world.
Arts
‘It really belongs to you people anyway…’: The story of Ken Pound
To celebrate the Children’s Book Council of Australia Week, we pay tribute to the life of children’s literature collector, Ken Pound, and the collection he has left for us all.
