Collection: Local History Reference

"Public libraries play an integral role in the support, fostering and championing of the learning and aspirations of the multi-faceted communities. The Yarra-Melbourne libraries will continue the excellent service and mantain the provision of high quality library facilities and services in the co...

As part of the 2020 Victorian Seniors Festival re-imagined, City of Melbourne’s ageing and inclusion team set out to deliver a community arts initiative to celebrate and showcase the unique life experience and diversity of older Melburnians.

Why did Billibellary and other Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung clansmen and women parley with Batman on the banks of the Merri Creek in June 1835? And what befell the clans in the decade and a half that followed that fateful encounter with Britain's Empire? Based primarily on the daily journal of Assi...

Bold, original and never one to shy away from the truth, Helen Garner's writing has shaped Australian literature. The author has kept a diary for almost all her life. But until now, those exercise books filled with her thoughts, observations, frustrations and joys have been locked away, out of bo...

It was an era when moviegoers came to Yarraville from all parts of Melbourne, eager to watch Greek motion pictures on the Sun Theatre's single screen. Greek subtitles accompanied foreign language films from India, Turkey, America and France! Ana Kokkinos - internationally acclaimed writer and fil...

Contains translations of articles first appearing in Undzer Gedank between October 1947 and November 1974, and in Melburner Bleter between December 1975 and January 1981.

The Yorker commenced in 1993 has developed into a showcase for research articles, statistical analyses and book reviews targeted at MCC members, sports historians, media and the general public visiting the Australian Sports Museum.