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Women changing the world, part one: Intellectual equality

WEBLock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. Virginia Woolf’s famous essay A room of one’s …

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Celebrating our nurses: the history of nursing in Victoria

WEBInternational Nurses Day is celebrated on Friday 12 May – the anniversary of Florence Nightingale’s birth. Her advocacy and contribution to health care saved …

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State Library Victoria – Quarantine and the Little Red Bluff

WEBPainting by Elizabeth Parsons, ca. 1874-ca. 1886; H36676/18. Ten people died aboard the Glen Huntly before it arrived in Victoria, and three died during its …

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State Library Victoria

WEBCaroline, the immigrants’ friend. March 26, 2024. Ask a librarian, Our stories, Such was life, Victorian history: When you follow your heart, your achievements often multiply. The …

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State Library Victoria – The letter that changed history

WEBThe letter that changed history. On this day 100 years ago, journalist Keith Murdoch penned the Gallipoli letter. The highly critical account, written to Australian …

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State Library Victoria – The erasure of Melbourne’s wetlands

WEBThe erasure of Melbourne’s wetlands. Former creative fellow and author, Dr David Sornig, shows us how the library’s maps and manuscripts chart the demise of …

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State Library Victoria The gateway to Melbourne: Station Pier

WEBRailway Pier, Sandridge, ca. 1870-1880, H31510/42. Melbourne’s Station Pier, at Port Melbourne, opened in September 1854 – it was originally known as …

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State Library Victoria – Carlton’s bluebirds

WEBClad in blue lycra leotards and white knee-high leather boots, the Carlton Bluebirds comprised a squad of around twenty professional dancers, ranging in age …

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State Library Victoria – Hospital records for family history

WEBThe purpose of this guide is to assist family historians to find historical health and welfare records. Focusing on Victorian records, this guide provides …

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State Library Victoria – A tale of two lions

WEBA tale of two lions. Our story begins at Melbourne’s first amusement park, the Cremorne Gardens, which opened in 1853 on the banks of the Yarra. A paddle …

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From the Seine to the Yarra: Art Deco in Melbourne

WEBArt Deco is often acknowledged as a symbol of post-war optimism which began with the 1925 summer Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industrials …

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State Library Victoria – Empress Josephine and the last emu

WEBIn France, in 1822, the last surviving Australian dwarf emu died. Two distinct dwarf emu sub species lived in splendid isolation on King Island and Kangaroo Island for …

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State Library Victoria – Researching school records

WEBThe Victorian Pupil Register Database on Archival Access Victoria’s website has indexed pupil registers from over 245 Victorian state primary schools and lists over …

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State Library Victoria – Slums of Melbourne

WEBSlums of Melbourne. August 6, 2015 at 13:55. by Sarah Matthews. in Social life & customs, Such was life. As far back as the 1850s, slums existed in inner city Melbourne. Slum …

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The Ryerson Index: a family history discovery tool

WEBIn the search boxes, type in the surname and the first name of the deceased person and click search. This gives you a list of notices of people of that name. Even if a …

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State Library Victoria – Queen’s birthday holiday closure

WEBThe Library will be closed on Monday 13 June due to the Queen’s Birthday public holiday. Readings Book Shop and Mr Tulk cafe will also be closed.An extensive range of …

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Sutherland & Pavarotti – free opera screening

WEBAn Evening with Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti is the next screening in the Music and Dance on Film series, to be held this Wednesday October 27 in Arts. Recorded Live …

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Victorian Historical Journal 1911-2012 now online

WEBFor over a year, we’ve been providing free access to digitised copies of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria’s magazine for 1911-1954.Thanks to the Society, …

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State Library Victoria – When Spanish Flu came to Victoria

WEBWhen Spanish Flu came to Victoria. The origin of the 1918–1920 world influenza pandemic is uncertain. One theory is that it first appeared in a US army camp …

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Medieval lives: Working women in English society, 1300–1500

WEBWorking women in English society 1300–1620, Marjorie Keniston McIntosh, Cambridge University Press, 2005. Marjorie’s book discusses a wide range of women’s …

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