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The Australian manuscript collections date from the period of maritime exploration and settlement in the 18th century until the present, with the greatest area of strength dating from the 1890s onwards. The collection includes a large number of outstanding single items, such as the 14th century [[Chertsey]] [[Cartulary]], the journal of [[James Cook]] on [[HM Bark Endeavour]], inscribed on the Memory of the World<ref>{{cite web |url=http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=21308&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090804195038/http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=21308&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 August 2009 |title=Portal.unesco.org |publisher=Portal.unesco.org |access-date=30 May 2012 }}</ref> Register in 2001, the diaries of [[Robert O'Hara Burke]] and [[William John Wills]] from the [[Burke and Wills expedition]], and [[Charles Kingsford Smith]]'s and [[Charles Ulm]]'s log of the Southern Cross. |
The Australian manuscript collections date from the period of maritime exploration and settlement in the 18th century until the present, with the greatest area of strength dating from the 1890s onwards. The collection includes a large number of outstanding single items, such as the 14th century [[Chertsey]] [[Cartulary]], the journal of [[James Cook]] on [[HM Bark Endeavour]], inscribed on the Memory of the World<ref>{{cite web |url=http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=21308&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090804195038/http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=21308&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 August 2009 |title=Portal.unesco.org |publisher=Portal.unesco.org |access-date=30 May 2012 }}</ref> Register in 2001, the diaries of [[Robert O'Hara Burke]] and [[William John Wills]] from the [[Burke and Wills expedition]], and [[Charles Kingsford Smith]]'s and [[Charles Ulm]]'s log of the Southern Cross. |
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A wide range of individuals and families are represented in the collection, with special strength in the fields of politics, public administration, diplomacy, theatre, art, literature, the pastoral industry and religion. Examples are the papers of [[Alfred Deakin]], |
A wide range of individuals and families are represented in the collection, with special strength in the fields of politics, public administration, diplomacy, theatre, art, literature, the pastoral industry and religion. Examples are the papers of [[Alfred Deakin]], [[Sir John Latham]], [[Sir Keith Murdoch]], [[Sir Hans Heysen]], [[Sir John Monash]], [[Vance Palmer]] and [[Nettie Palmer]], [[A.D. Hope]], [[Manning Clark]], [[David Williamson]], [[Billy Hughes|W.M. Hughes]], [[Sir Robert Menzies]], [[Sir William McMahon]], [[Lord Casey]], [[Geoffrey Dutton]], [[Peter Sculthorpe]], [[Daisy Bates (Australia)|Daisy Bates]], [[Jessie Street]], and [[Eddie Mabo]] and [[James Cook]] both of whose papers were inscribed on [[UNESCO|UNESCO's]] [[Memory of the World Programme]] Register in 2001.<ref name=mowmabo>{{cite web |title=The Mabo Case Manuscripts |url=http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=21311&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080919181415/http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=21311&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 September 2008 |date=16 May 2008 |publisher=UNESCO Memory of the World Programme |access-date=11 December 2009 }}</ref><ref name=mowcook>{{cite web |title=The Endeavour Journal of James Cook |url=http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=21308&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090804195038/http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=21308&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 August 2009 |date=16 May 2008 |publisher=UNESCO Memory of the World Programme |access-date=11 December 2009 }}</ref> |
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The library has also acquired the records of many national non-governmental organisations. They include the records of the Federal Secretariats of the Liberal party, the [[Australian Labor Party|A.L.P]], the Democrats, the [[Returned and Services League of Australia|R.S.L.]], the [[Australian Inland Mission]], the [[Australian Union of Students]], The [[Australian Ballet]], the [[Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust]], the [[Australian Institute of Urban Studies]], [[Australian Industries Protection League]], the [[Australian Conservation Foundation]], and the [[Australian Council of National Trusts]]. Finally, the library holds about 37,000 reels of [[microfilm]] of manuscripts and archival records, mostly acquired overseas and predominantly of Australian and Pacific interest. |
The library has also acquired the records of many national non-governmental organisations. They include the records of the Federal Secretariats of the Liberal party, the [[Australian Labor Party|A.L.P]], the Democrats, the [[Returned and Services League of Australia|R.S.L.]], the [[Australian Inland Mission]], the [[Australian Union of Students]], The [[Australian Ballet]], the [[Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust]], the [[Australian Institute of Urban Studies]], [[Australian Industries Protection League]], the [[Australian Conservation Foundation]], and the [[Australian Council of National Trusts]]. Finally, the library holds about 37,000 reels of [[microfilm]] of manuscripts and archival records, mostly acquired overseas and predominantly of Australian and Pacific interest. |