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When a Samoan ethnomusicologist visited Melbourne's Grainger Museum as a music student, she found objects her community had no idea were there. Now she's changing that

Handwritten records of central Victorian fires from 1875 are being digitised to preserve rare local knowledge and record how fire risk is changing over time

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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