These imposing doors guard the threshold of a Sydney icon. Their troubling history has just come to light

The massive bronze doors guarding the entrance to the State Library’s Mitchell building seem like timeless sentinels of history and culture, yet have only stood since 1942. Pressed into their metallic ...
The Conversation

A tale of subterfuge, rivalry, Napoleon and snakes: how the NSW State Library came to own the map of Abel Tasman’s voyages

Lynette Russell receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Leonie Stevens is employed as a Research Fellow on the Australian Research Council-funded Global Encounters Laureate project..
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Program: Preserving LGBTQIA+ history at the State Library of NSW

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