Archives

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

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

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

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

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

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

Arts & Culture
The era of the citizen historian
Digital media is crowdsourcing stories not documented by the traditional producers of history

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

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

Environment
Merchant Builders: Celebrating a fifty-year legacy
Towards a new archive