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Episodes

Total: 327

Librarian Margy Burn shares experiences acquiring rare and unique collections during her career at t

Sam Lebovic will explore the transnational history of media deregulation in the age of cable and sat

With the recent boom in family history research, many Australians are discovering that long-held fam

Using examples of cartoons displayed in the Inked exhibition, Dr Guy Hansen will provide a short his

NAIDOC Week celebrations (NAIDOC originally stood for ‘National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observa

Join Professor Marcia Langton, Dr James Rose and Dr Len Smith as they discuss Digital Curation in th

We have always shared our cities with nature – from magpies and remnant bushland to the fish in urba

Meghan Oldfield, Executive Group Manager, Light Rail City to Gungahlin, reflects on life before Canb

Beginning with Poems of the Atomic Bomb by Sankichi Tōge in 1951, Japan continues to produce literar

Between them, Geoff Pryor and David Pope have over 50 years of cartooning experience. In this conver

How might we best catalogue historical maps featuring words from both Aboriginal languages and Engli

Throughout the twentieth century, many gay Australian writers and artists left Australia—some of the

Already optioned for a film, Meg Keneally's first solo novel, Fled - based on the extraordinary life

Join Alasdair McGregor and Simon Nasht for a dinner discussion on the life and work of Frank Hurley,

On what would be art dealer and collector Rex Nan Kivell's (1898 1977) 121st birthday, Treasures cur

Using examples of cartoons displayed in the upcoming Inked exhibition, Exhibition Curator Dr Guy Han

In her new book, You Daughters of Freedom, historian Associate Professor Clare Wright brings to life

The first professional woman writer in English, Aphra Behn, was a successful London playwright in th

This event will be host to author Bruce Gaunson and a lecture based on his book Fighting the Kaiserr

The lifelong adventurer and famous photographer Frank Hurley travelled around the Middle East and No