EXHIBITION EXTENDED: Hearts of Gold

Now running until the end of November (during library operating hours)

This exhibition, curated by the Stanley Atheneaum explores the stories and achievements of women who settled and developed the high country community of Stanley in Northeast Victoria in the nineteenth century.

Sporting History

Sport is an integral part of Australian and Victorian culture and so remains a key part of our collection.

We have sporting biographies and resources about most sporting codes and clubs, as well as a significant number of individual histories about small town sporting clubs. These resources list all players and are a celebration of the culture of the town, often containing photos.

Image: www.slv.vic.gov.au | Date(s): c1596 | Creator: Fraser, Arthur Gordon, photographer.

Historical Society / General Interstate Journals

We collect and index journals from all historical societies in Victoria. Indexing means that every relevant historical article in these journals is fully searchable on our catalogue. These journals cover an astounding array of minutia from their communities’ histories and there is nowhere else this sort of information is available. It is the small scale of history that is not covered in books and in more general resources.

We also hold general interstate journals from society's such as the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, the Genealogy Society’s, the Art Deco Society, the Journal of Australian Ephemera and Newsrail.

The PMI Victorian History Library has more than 30,000 books for loan and a professional information service for our members, we provide a central resource for research into the history of Victoria. We hold many titles that are unavailable elsewhere. It is the only lending collection of its kind in Australia that is available for loan to the general public.

Electronic Databases
Electronic databases are often overlooked, and the PMI’s collection can provide a myriad of information. They range from directories like the Sands and McDougall’s directories which cover addresses in first Melbourne and then Victoria, to hospital indexes, to registries for example cemetery burial registries from a wide variety of Victorian cemeteries, to gazettes for example the police gazette, which covers all sorts of ways that people came into contact with the law. These are just examples of some of these sorts of resources and they can be invaluable as they can give you firsthand primary information.

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