Archives and Special Collections

Rare Books, Prints, Rare Music, the East Asian Collection, Map Collection and the University of Melbourne Archives, at the University of Melbourne.

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Daryl Watson recently completed an internship with the University of Melbourne Archives on a pilot project digitising audio visual material.

Learn more about Daryl's discoveries in the collection, including audio tapes of female pioneers and activists

🔗https://t.co/qcQE4gwkXB

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Xiaoju Liu is our Curator, Rare East Asian and manages a collection of over 20,000 items

Join Xiaoju at our next public program, Spotlight On: The lives of commoners in Pre-modern China, this Thursday 12:30pm in the Baillieu Library.

Book your place 🔗https://t.co/imNqghHohF

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Routledge's etiquette for ladies / by the author of the "Ball-room guide," and "Etiquette for gentlemen, 1864, London: Camden Press, Rare Books Collection.

#tinybook #rarebooks #specialcollections

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Join us next Thursday for our final #Spotlight program for the semester, when our Curator, Rare East Asian Xiaoju Liu discusses the hidden narratives of everyday people in Pre-modern China.

Book your place 🔗https://t.co/imNqghHohF

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Applications for the Joyce Thorpe Nicholson Creative Fellowship are now due by Monday 11 May, giving you more time to apply for this amazing opportunity to respond creatively to the collection.

🔗https://t.co/sgD4dKTwQB

#rarebooks #feministcollection #artsfunding #literature

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In conversation with Ground Tours
Friday 24 April, 12:00 - 1:00pm

Join members of Tributaries Collective as they unpack the work behind Ground Tours, a new exhibition opening in the Noel Shaw Gallery, Baillieu Library

Book your place 🔗 https://t.co/G6u6r82FZk

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In conversation with Ground Tours
Friday 24 April, 12:00 - 1:00pm

Join members of Tributaries Collective as they unpack the work behind Ground Tours, a new exhibition opening in the Noel Shaw Gallery, Baillieu Library

Book your place 🔗 https://t.co/G6u6r82FZk

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Ground Tours is a temporary exhibition of fieldwork by Tributaries collective, undertaken in and around the the Parkville campus and developed in dialogue with #TheGrandTour exhibition.

On display 15 - 30 April, Noel Shaw Gallery, Baillieu Library.

🔗https://t.co/zZIQ25jbZG

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Join us for an artist talk and zine-making workshop at our next #Spotlight program

✨Spotlight On: Artists' books and zines with Gracia
and Louise
📅Thursday 2 April, 12:30 - 2:00pm
🎫Book now 🔗https://t.co/jeWXTVMW43

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Watch the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in the Baillieu Library foyer and discover our display of rocks from the F.A. Singleton Collection, School of Earth Sciences on the library's ground floor, currently on display until 28 June.

#specialcollections #unimelb #whatson #exhibition

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We're now accepting applications for the Joyce Thorpe Nicholson Creative Fellowship, aimed at emerging creative practitioners for new work responding to the Joyce Thorpe Nicholson collection.

Applications close 4 May
🔗https://t.co/sgD4dKTwQB

#australianwriting #fellowship

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We are now accepting applications for our Malcolm Fraser Research Grant until 12 April!

We'd love to hear you on research that interrogates, reframes, and advances understanding of liberal traditions in Australia

Apply now 👉https://t.co/xJNn4ChSF5

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We're still accepting applications for our Malcolm Fraser Research Grant, until 15 March. Don't miss your chance to apply for this incredible opportunity, drawing from our Malcolm Fraser Collection!

#archives #researchgrant #auspol #politicalhistory

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The newly launched Malcolm Fraser Research Grant is a funded research opportunity for a scholar to undertake research of contemporary relevance on liberal traditions in Australia.

Applications close 15 March 2026.

Apply Now🔗https://t.co/VyURK6Fpxf

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Join us for our first Spotlight program of this year, showcasing an incredible 17th century compendium of music theory, Musurgia Universalis, with philosopher Dr Jenny Judge

Thursday 5 March
12 - 1pm
Book your place 🔗https://t.co/4k0I21CYps

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We're excited to share that newly digitised collection items are now available, as part of the JJ & EJ Clark Collection, at the University of Melbourne Archives.

Explore our collection of their iconic Melbourne buildings🔗https://t.co/IpmJBqq2Av

#architecture #archives

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The newly launched Malcolm Fraser Research Grant is a funded research opportunity for a scholar to undertake research of contemporary relevance on liberal traditions in Australia.

Applications close 15 March 2026.

Apply Now🔗https://t.co/VyURK6Fpxf

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Today we're excited to launch the Malcolm Fraser Research Grant, an opportunity for a scholar to undertake funded research drawing on the Malcolm Fraser Collection.
Learn more 🔗https://t.co/xJNn4ChkPx
Applications close 15 March 2026.

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@thehistoriann Thanks for sharing!

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Recently, our Reading Room team were amazed to discover 36 individual pieces of #ephemera in a #rarebook requested by a student including pressed leaves, paper figurines even a recipe for sherbert.

The herball or generall historie of plantes /gathered by John Gerarde.

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Lucas van Leyden (c.1494 1533, Leiden, Netherlands), David playing the harp before Saul, c.1508, engraving, purchased 2024. Prints & Drawings Collection, 2024.0004.000.000.
#printsanddrawings #specialcollections #unimelb #prints #dutchprintmaker