Collection: Local History Reference

This guidelines are intended to help facilitate the growing opportunities for the use and development of the Lower Yarra River and its environs, while at the same time guarding against inappropriate activities and developments that may undermine its fundamental attributes.

"Melbourne's Yarra River looks placid most of the time, but it is a river with a turbulent past. A new exhibition at Melbourne's Old Treasury Building explores the chequered history of the stream we call the 'city's river'."-- Publisher's website.

Material in this ephemera collection covers information on Yarra Trams, Victoria.

"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...