In November, the State Library hosted an exhibition and book launch for the City of Melville's Write Club, a writer and artist in residence program with year six students from Caralee Community School.
Learn about the unique role archives and Western Australia have played in discovering and exploring the universe in the 2023 Geoffrey Bolton Lecture, now available as a podcast and transcript.
A film exploring the rich knowledge held by the Whadjuk women of the Nyungar nation about the trees of southwestern Australia who understand their specific qualities, uses and value to the Nyungar people.
Billed as "Australia's Perfect Boy", Effie Marion Fellows (1893 - 1977) led an extraordinary life and incredible career as a male impersonator. She toured the world, married twice and was described by a New York newspaper as "one of the greatest boy impersonators in her line".
The Preservation Team has recently completed digitising the Western Australia Bonnes 80 chain cadastral series of maps covering most of the lower third of Western Australia and showing land boundaries from approximately 1896-1984.
Robert Litchfield Juniper was an artist, art teacher, illustrator, painter, printmaker and sculptor, whose art captured the rough scruffiness of the Australian bush.
Professor Arnold Cook (1922-1981) was blind by the age of 18, yet despite his challenges he pioneered the first guide dog movement in Australia with his beloved labrador Dreena by his side.
The State Library of Western Australia is seeking material related to the Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum to add to our collection. This includes photographs, videos, posters, flyers and ephemera.
Douglas "Dick" Perry helped open the first pine nursery in Gnangara. Dick cultivated the finest seedlings after examining over 250,000 from the Forest of Leiria, Portugal. The State Library collection has hundreds of his exquisite wildflower photos and slides.
Heritage Librarian Peter Edwards discusses on ABC Radio Perth the history of the iconic Barrack-Beaufort Street bridge from its first iteration built in 1880 through to its third iteration built between 1906 – 1908.
