La Trobe Journal Recent Editions

These and other issues of the La Trobe Journal can be purchased through the Library's online shop.

No. 81 Autumn 2008

The 81st issue of the La Trobe Journal focuses on the idea of the 'medieval', to coincide with the State Library of Victoria's exhibition The Medieval Imagination. It features an extended version of Professor David McKitterick's 2008 Foxcroft Lecture.

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Read our feature article 'The Rebinding of de Guileville's Pilgrimage of the Lyfe of the Manhode and Pilgrimage of the Sowle' >

No. 80 Spring 2007

This 40th anniversary issue focuses on the Library and its Journal, Charles Joseph La Trobe and the history of Melbourne. It includes articles by Keith Dunstan on researching in the the Library and John Barnes on the La Trobe family in Van Diemen's Land.

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Read our feature article 'Thomas Woolner's Portrait Medallion of CJ La Trobe' >

No. 79 Autumn 2007

Books feature prominently in this edition of the La Trobe Journal. Articles include profiles of the remarkable book collector Robert Carl Sticht and the founder of Melbourne's Hill of Content bookshop, AH Spencer.

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Read our feature article 'The Legends of Moonie Jarl: Our First Indigenous Children's Book' >

No. 78 Spring 2006

The Spring 2006 issue of the La Trobe Journal has articles on the history and restoration of the Library's Shakespeare Window, books of magic in the Library, Kurt Offenburg, Arthur Greening, Benjamin Suggitt Nayler and more.

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