Vintage crack: Australian Women's Weekly treasure trove

The National Library of Australia have been keeping themselves very busy - they've just finished digitizing the first 50 year's worth of issues of the Australian Women's Weekly (from 1933 to 1982). That's 2770 magazines - from back to cover!

Best yet they've made this amazing resource accessible to us all to see, search, and enjoy on the web. The project was undertaken in association with the State Library of New South Wales (from whose collection many of the magazines were supplied) and with the permission of Australian Consolidated Press.

You can search by keywords across all issues, look at at a particular date range, read a whole issue, or best yet check out their amazing timeline of covers. It's not all kittens, kitsch and kweens. But be warned - this stuff is like vintage crack, its highly addictive! Don't be surprised if your friends and family have to stage an intervention to get you out of there..

 Check out the Australian Women's Weekly digital archive for yourself on Trove