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Arts & Culture

Bringing a living archive to life

The Living Archive challenges the idea of what an Indigenous museum collection can be and could become

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Arts & Culture

Don’t forget the sweets!

Childhood letters are rare in the historical record, but like those of the young Malcolm Fraser, they provide unique insight on the experience of children

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Arts & Culture

Journal of the plague year

Universities around the world are collaborating to crowd-source coronavirus accounts creating an archive of COVID-19 for future historians

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Arts & Culture

Treasuring Trove: Why Australia’s digital heritage platform is so special

Australians have a truly unique resource in the National Library’s Trove, and it needs to be protected

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Politics & Society

Helping care leavers find and connect to their past

Find & Connect is a living history project that provides an opportunity for people who lived in care to tell their side of the story

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Politics & Society

When kissing was a crime

The history of the LGBTI community’s ongoing struggle for equality is preserved in the archives, providing a crucial window into the attitudes of the past and the poignant stories that drove social change

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Arts & Culture

The era of the citizen historian

Digital media is crowdsourcing stories not documented by the traditional producers of history

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Arts & Culture

Animation in the 80s: the view from Melbourne

Making an animated film has never been easy, but in the 1980s it seemed the artform’s future was bright

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Arts & Culture

Armchair travel: 50 years of Melbourne films

Never-before-seen films by some of Australia’s top filmmakers anyone? Sit back, relax, and take a trip through five glorious decades on screen

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Environment

Merchant Builders: Celebrating a fifty-year legacy

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