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Event Type: Talk

When Wrong Becomes Right in the English Language

When wrong becomes right

The Queen of Crime: All About Agatha

The Queen of Crime: All about Agatha

How to Ban a Book

How to ban a book

Big Show Offs

Big Show Offs

Noble Fragments

Noble Fragments

Of Madness and Miracles

Of Madness and Miracles Melbourne Law Library

Irish Texts in State Library Victoria’s Rare Books Collection

Irish Texts SLV

Hidden Gems

Hidden Gems

Lloyd’s Register

Lloyds Register

How the Past Informs the Present

How the Past Informs the Present - Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

Cartes de Visite, Cabinet Cards and Albums

Cartes de visite Ephemera Society

Book Arts from the Medieval to the Contemporary

Book arts from the medieval to contemporary SLV

Anatomy of a Book

Anatomy of a Book SLV

Adventures through The Medical Pickwick 1917 – 1920

Adventures through the Medical Pickwick RACS

Artists’ Books

Artists Books-EV Ratnam

From a Townsville Pub to Sydney’s Wentworth Hotel

Revolutionary Books of the Algerian Independence Struggle

Revolutionary books of the Algerian independence struggle

Oh Brother

Oh Brother - Gina Chadderton

A Room of One’s Own

A Room of One's Own SLV

The Poet Who Never Was and (Perhaps) Always Will Be: Ern Malley

Books That Defined Language

Books that defined language

Arresting the Ephemeral

Arresting the Ephemeral Ballarat Mechanics Inst

Rare 17th Century Books

Wenceslas Hollar Old St Paul's Cathedral with spire

Suppression of Australian Literature in the Nineteenth Century

Suppression of Australian literature

Earth, Insect, Beast (Session 2)

Earth Insect Beast NGV

Earth, Insect, Beast (Session 1)

Earth Insect Beast NGV

William Strutt’s Victoria the Golden

William Strutts Victoria the Golden

Curiouser and Curiouser

Illustration from Alice in Wonderland
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