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 ›
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.
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
Venture down history’s backstreets with this self-guided walking tour of bohemian Melbourne.
It’s always good to meet old friends on the new books shelf, and make a few new friends as well.
Some soldiers in Egypt during World War I were so taken by the pyramids, they decided to climb them, with tragic results.
News:
For one day only the State Library and Wheeler Centre will be turned into your very own children’s playground.
News:
The Summer Read closes on 15 February, leaving you just enough time to read one of the recommended books and go into the prize draw.
News:
Applications open for Australia’s largest fellowship program.
Film, Music, Rare Books & Arts:
A few years back we were extremely fortunate to be on the receiving end of a marvellous collection of vinyl record albums from the estate of Kevin James, a passionate collector.
Surveyor and artist Robert Russell published an early survey of Melbourne featuring the Yarra Falls that determined the site for the foundation of the township. He also produced drawings and watercolours of the Yarra Falls from where his cottage was located.
Agatha Christie was a leading author of the golden age of detective fiction whose books continue to excite, delight and intrigue readers. To celebrate her outstanding legacy, State Library Victoria recently acquired first editions of some of Christie’s most popular titles.
