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All thing must pass, and even statues have to know when it’s time to go.

The world of early cartography is irresistible in the Library’s new Map Rooms.

Writer and actor Kate Mulvany defies the neat stories people write about her.

After a person dies, there is the game show.

Of all the Australian stage performers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Nellie Stewart was the best known and most universally loved.

Science and history come together in conserving the swamplands of southern Sydney.

She found fame as a teenage poet, but Grace Perry’s startling later work and her support for fellow poets are barely remembered.

An artist followed in the inspiring footsteps of a botanist rescued from a tragic expedition in 1848. 

A title page has always told readers what the book is about, but sometimes with an artistic flourish.

Street libraries are boxed shelters for books, managed by passionate local ‘librarians’. These tiny vestibules of literary happiness can be enjoyed, refilled and built by anyone.

Fifty years after the first gay rights organisation was founded in NSW, the activism of the 1970s still resonates.