It's almost Book Week, and that means it's time for AustLit's suggestions for simple costumes based on Australian books. Most of these come together with only three or four accessories. Happy Book Week 2026!
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AustLit is a bio-bibliographical database of stories by Australians and about Australia. www.austlit.edu.au
![AustLit’s 25th Anniversary special:
Research Project 2 OF 25:
[Image shows a black stage with five curved rows of black seats in front of it: the image is designed as an icon, not as a representative or illustrative image. On the stage are three images from set design associated with the project. This first shows a man in a grey suit, on the left, kissing the hand of a woman in a white tutu-style skirt; the second shows a grey, two-storey street scene; the third shows a vaguely Greek-looking scene, with pillars and cyprus trees.]
AUSTRALIAN DRAMA ARCHIVE
Continue to explore the project!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:goqdgulm22zlaw5l43rejtml/bafkreias52dv7ivxzbbt2xq3fdikysuavcz34b5iyqutigb2iho67ljeki)
![The Australian Drama Archive’s dataset includes but is not limited to the following:
> Biographical information — playwrights and writers working in the period before the 1960s.
> Play Information — synopsis, publication details, production details and historical notes.
> Research outcomes
> Digitised transcripts of plays researched in the project.
[Banner image shows a series of pages from the plays included in the project: the pages are text-heavy and the text is illegible at this size.]
Selected plays were scanned and in most cases run through an optical character recognition (OCR) process which generated a plain text file that was subsequently corrected.
In some cases the OCR text was so bad, due to the poor quality of the original manuscript, we determined it was best to manually transcribe the text.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:goqdgulm22zlaw5l43rejtml/bafkreih5mkyeelhwvt3o56n6zpzg7bo6kufnwbocfx5grbsvvh7p2rx7tu)
![Member benefit [followed by AustLit logo]. The ASA and AustLit, the national database of literature and storytelling, are delighted to announce a new partnership. ASA members now have free access to AustLit, which includes over a million records containing biographical and bibliographical information on Australian and First Nations storytelling, as well as rich datasets, information trails, digital exhibitions, and so much more.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:goqdgulm22zlaw5l43rejtml/bafkreihzajgb543jkogpxhjfohvk56u4zj5fzcoo6irmux6g5p336n2oki)
