On the cover this month
H.J. Weston (b.1874)
‘Were YOU There Then?’
coloured poster; 90.3 x 57.0 cm
Pictures Collection
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A 1916 poster designed to encourage enlistment. Recruiters hoped that the first anniversary of the Gallipoli landings might prove an added inducement for Australia’s young civilian men to put on uniform, but the first Anzac Day commemoration produced a more complex range of emotions. See story
April 2007 Volume XVII Number 7
Democratic Arts
Lenore Coltheart reveals the contribution made by interior designer Ruth Lane-Poole to the national capital
The Allure of the London Library
Graeme Powell looks at an iconic British institution
‘A Sob Seemed to Shake the Community’
Ian Warden investigates newspaper reports of the first Anzac anniversary, on 25 April 1916
Olive’s Story
Barry York relates the special experience of interviewing his mother for the Library’s Oral History Collection
The Honorable Consul
Nicola Walker reads of the ordeal of the anti-slaver Lyons McLeod in East Africa in the late 1850s
Friends
A regular news page about the activities of the Friends of the National Library of Australia
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