Visit the Library Monday to Friday, 10am-4pm or view the online exhibition here.

April 2020 marks 250 years since Lieutenant James Cook arrived, uninvited, onto Gweagal shores at Kamay (Botany Bay) in what is now Australia. For the local Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders, this event changed everything. Dispossessing them of their homes, lands and governance for the benefit of the newcomers and those far away in Britain. What it is to be here: Colonisation and resistance considers how this process of colonisation and First Nations people’s resistance to it continue to this day.