The cat
Painting, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
I knew that my post on dogs in art would trigger a feline response….. Spend any time on the internet and you could be forgiven for thinking everyone likes cats… Read More ›
Victor Hugo: Les Misérables – From Page to Stage now open
Victor Hugo: Les Misérables – From Page to Stage, a world-first exhibition and the biggest ever staged by the State Library of Victoria, is now open. The exhibition explores the… Read More ›
Paris and its people: “La plus ça change…”
Anna Welch from our History of the Book collection whets our appetite for all things Victor Hugo: To complement the library’s upcoming major new exhibition in the Keith Murdoch Gallery,… Read More ›
Violet Town railway disaster
Cities & towns, Such was life:
On a very hot Friday, 7 February, 1969, just after 7.00am, the Southern Aurora, Australia’s overnight express passenger train between Sydney and Melbourne, collided head-on with an Albury-bound goods train, 174km north of Melbourne. The Melbourne-bound Southern Aurora ran through the Violet Town crossing loop where it should have waited for the goods train to pass.
Family History Feast 2014 bookings open Monday 14 July!!
Family History Feast 2014, Family matters:
Bookings for the annual Family History Feast event hosted by the State Library of Victoria open on Monday 14 July 2014. The eleventh Family History Feast will be held at the Library… Read More ›
New Listening: Mozart, Blunt, Buble & Trio
Some new CD arrivals feature on the Listening Posts in Arts. They include recent releases in pop, rock, country, opera and world music. The online catalogue indicates which Listening Post the… Read More ›
State Library welcomes new Creative Fellows – funds creative use of collections
Announcements, Collection, Grants, News:
The State Library of Victoria has announced the recipients of the 2014-15 Creative Fellowships, a program started eleven years ago to foster the creative use of the State Library’s collections… Read More ›
Unexpected sketches
Arts & literature, Such was life:
A library patron recently led me to a beautiful book containing sketches by the prison artist William Stanford. The patron had an old newspaper article which mentioned the book, but… Read More ›
Woof woof woof: or the dog in art…..woof
Painting, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
Now for some total self-indulgence! Having just welcomed two beautiful Whippets into the family (don’t get me started…), it seems like the ideal time to explore the central, if under-appreciated,… Read More ›
Is your Victorian history project award-worthy?
Local history funding sources, Such was life:
Nominations for the Royal Historical Society of Victoria’s 2014 Victorian Community History Awards are now open. The awards recognise ‘excellence in historical method’, and the types of works that can be… Read More ›
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.
