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Probing the past to better understand the present and prepare for an uncertain future. I think it’s fair to say that no field of history has grown more swiftly—in quantity or sophistication—in the 21st century than environmental history. The reason is, I suspect, self-evident: it’s in part a scholarly response to global warming, biodiversity loss, volatile and extreme weather events, and climate change–related diseases.

Our reviewers cast their eyes over recent fiction and non-fiction.

Birds offer humans one of the simplest and easiest connections we have to the natural world, as LIBBY...

Alison Booth, Marcia Langton and other authors will talk.

Background This report offers a review of recent significant acquisitions by the Library and of collecting activities. It does not describe the large volume of acquisitions of both Australian and overseas materials that are routinely acquired through deposit, purchase or donation.

Jan Sheldrick is an independent scholar and historian and the author of Nature's line: a biography of George Goyder, to be published in 2008 by Wakefield Press. She lives in Melbourne and discovered Goyder through a fascination with the landscape and ruins north of the line. "Goyder's Line: the unreliable history of the line of reliable rainfall" (in Tim Sherrat, Tom Griffiths and Libby Robin (eds) A change in the weather: climate and culture in Australia, National Museum of ...

Abstract. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the ethnic Japanese (wajin) population of Hokkaido ballooned from roughly sixty thousand residents, prim

CBRLife = 堪 生 活  is now being received through legal deposit. Published by a group of young Chinese Australians, it is a ‘magazine for Chinese Australians living in Canberra, recording their lives and memories with connection of this City. While many multicultural publishers are pleased to deposit their works with the Library, others can be less responsive to the Library’s standard ‘official’ approach. There was a good example recently with the acquisition of three volumes of Ao...

The Guardian at 200: A History of the Environment A fascinating two-part lecture that dissects the evolution of our relationship with climate language, and explores critical questions about where the conversation is heading, with Sverker Sörlin and Fiona Harvey. Online workshop Times: 6pm - 8.30pm (BST) Guardian Masterclasses - Fiona Harvey & Sverker Sörlin Photograph: Fiona Harvey & Sverker Sörlin Tue 20 Apr 2021 06.50 EDT Last modified on Tue 20 Apr 2021 07.46 EDT In times of climate cris...