On the cover this month
Greg Weight (b. 1946)
Portrait of Arthur Boyd 1993
photograph; gelatin silver on fibre-based paper; 50.5 x 40.6 cm
Pictorial Collection (P64115)
Artist Arthur Boyd is the only visual artist, to date, to have been
named Australian of the Year. But he is one of many whose stories are
being recorded for the National Library's Australians of the Year oral
history project.
June 2000 Volume X Number 9
OUT OF THE SHADOWS: THE FORGOTTEN QUEENS OF ENGLAND
Sylvia Marchant considers the work of Agnes Strickland, whose Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest brought the queens of England out of the shadows of history
AUSTRALIANS OF THE YEAR
Since 1960, Australia Day celebrations have included the announcement of the Australian of the Year. Diana Giese discusses the National Library's role in recording the reflections of some of our great achievers
REFLECTING AUSTRALIA: COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT AT THE NATIONAL LIBRARY
How does the National Library of Australia decide what to collect? Kathryn Favelle retraces the development of the Library's collections
FAMILY TIES
Patricia Clarke reveals the family connections between poet A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson and novelist Rosa Praed
BRINGING THEM TOGETHER
Doreen Mellor highlights the partnerships being forged by the National Library's Bringing Them Home Oral History Project
FRIENDS
A regular news page about the activities of the Friends of the National Library of Australia
NLA PUBLICATIONS
A new addition to the Library's series of 'small books'
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