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  1. Australian Comics: Reflecting on our National Identity through Object-Based Learning

    The University of Melbourne’s Special Collections – which comprises Rare Books, Rare Prints and Rare Music Collections – houses approximately 272,000 items, with the Rare Books …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2019/10/10/australian-comics-reflecting-on-our-national-identity-through-object-based-learning

  2. Altering Shakespeare: An Interleaved Copy of Antony and Cleopatra

    On 23 February 1855, the steamship Pacific docked in Melbourne harbour. Descending the gangway for his first tour of Australia was the Irish actor Gustavus Brooke, …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2014/03/28/altering-shakespeare-an-interleaved-copy-of-antony-and-cleopatra

  3. Knowledge Through Print: A Melbourne Perspective

    Image: Frontispiece (vol. 1), in Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des metiers, 3rd ed., Livourne: de l’Imprimerie des Éditeurs, 1770-1776, 17 volumes. …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2012/05/31/knowledge-through-print-a-melbourne-perspective

  4. Treasures Revealed

    Experience some of the most prized possessions held in the University of Melbourne Library with ‘Treasures Revealed’, available free for iPhone, iPad and Android. Australiana includes …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2012/02/17/treasures-revealed

  5. The Home

    The Home: An Australian Quarterly was first published in February 1920. Published by Art in Australia Ltd, The Home’s target market was Australian middle-class women readers. It was …

    blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2011/08/29/the-home

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