Books that #shook the world! A visit to the Melbourne Museum
Last week I took a trip to the Melbourne Museum where I had the opportunity to check out the Revolutions: Records & Rebels exhibition. The exhibition “looks at the late 1960s as a moment when youth culture drove optimistic idealism, motivating people to come...
How should we remember them?
Every year in Australia in the lead up to both ANZAC Day and Remembrance Day, there is a wave that rolls through Australian society. It is not a tidal wave, destroying everything in its wake, nor is it merely a ripple that goes ignored by all but the most sensitive of...The Arthur Holt Library History : Part III
Extract from prime minister Robert Menzies’s announcement of war speech, 1939 Photo: National Library of Australia, ‘Unidentified Australian Army soldiers marching with full kits : scenes of Army life in Australia during World War II’. As...The Arthur Holt Library History : Part I
In celebration of a brand new AHL blog, we decided it would be fitting to take a journey down memory lane – we mean waaaay down – and explore the stories of the library at Trinity Grammar School. Keen to know more about the humble beginnings of your school...
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