Moonee Valley Family & Local History Blog

Moonee Valley Libraries now has access to the full range of magazines offered online by RB Digital. This means even if you don’t consider yourself to be much of a magazine reader there’s there’s likely something you’d enjoy. For library members they are free to read on your own smart phone, computer or tablet. For history enthusiasts there are 92 history titles to explore from around the World. English language history titles include National Geographic History , American History from the USA, All About History , Archaeology and various BBC history titles such as History Magazine , World Histories and History Revealed from the UK, and from Australia there is Traces (formerly Inside History ).  Two of the history magazine available via RB Digital Recent issues are brimming with great reads. Traces has articles on Paul Brickhill (the Melbourne-born author of the Great Escape and the Dam Busters ), Australia’s oldest synagogue (in Hobart, and celebrating its 175th anniversary t...

Did you know that Inside History is available for free to our library users? Published bi-monthly, Inside History is full of useful and fascinating articles and advice for people who are interested in Australian and New Zealand genealogy, history and heritage. You can access Inside History via Moonee Valley Librarie's Zinio  or through the RB Digital App, which has just been updated. You may need to create an account for Zinio or RB (if you haven't already), but it is very quick, and of course all free for our library members.