The 1988 international exposition – World Expo 88 in Brisbane. We look at the Telecom Expo info touchscreens that were state-of-the-art technology of the time.
A 1933 shark attack in Townsville spurs the Queensland Country Women's Association into action.
From the end of World War II to 1965, over 650 Japanese women migrated to Australia as the wives and fiancees of Australian servicemen.
Petitions were a key part of earning Australian women the right to vote.
A digitised WWII service record sheds new light on the career of a pioneering Australian servicewoman.
A brief history of Lytton Quarantine Station in Brisbane, Queensland.
In the immediate post-World War II years, the Postmaster-General’s Department was determined to deliver Christmas cheer on time.
Thousands of WWII service people joined the Caterpillar Club: an exclusive organisation for people who had bailed out of an incapacitated aircraft.
Talking chairs, a floating glass building and a self-driving railway that whisked 50 million people above the rooftops of 64 nations. Step into the past (or was it the future?) at Expo 67 in Montreal.
William Veale served in two world wars and helped shape the city of Adelaide.
Thousands of important videotapes in our collection are at risk because the VHS machines needed to play them are no longer being manufactured.
Beer, biff and legends – we look back at how Aussie Rules footy used to be, as told by Western Australian football legend Jack Sheedy.
