This website will tell the national story of gold, linking visitors and the broader Australian community to the stories and life experiences of gold seekers on the Australian goldfields, and connecting individual stories to the wider historical themes of global gold rushes, global migration flows, building the Australian nation and democratic change during the gold rushes.

The Encyclopedia of Melbourne is now being developed on-line and will be a sophisticated interactive way to explore Melbourne's past and present.

A collaborative initiative led by Dr Brown-May with colleagues from Anatomy, History & Philosophy of Science, English, Criminology and the Australian Centre. The University’s Harry Brooks Allen Museum of Anatomy and Pathology holds several skull-casts, including those of bushrangers Ned Kelly and 'Mad Dog' Morgan, originally taken post-mortem for purposes of anatomical and phrenological research. The aim of this project is to develop a multimedia educational resource that showcases these significant cultural assets to a wide audience, as well as providing a tool for learning across disciplinary boundaries.

Interactive teaching module on using images as historical evidence, developed by Dr Andrew Brown-May; shortlisted in 2002 in The Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing (tertiary website).

This website, featuring historical and architectural documentation, will illustrate the changing nature of The University of Melbourne and environs land use from the nineteenth century to the present day. This initiative is intended to develop a novel online multimedia interface that combines the ability to handle spatio-temporal data, archival resources, oral histories, 3D objects, and a range of other cultural resources.

The project, a collaboration between ABC Radio and the Cultural Heritage Unit, will produce and publish downloadable audio walking tours of Melbourne. Research and writing for the project is being undertaken by Public History students as part of the their internship subject.

This project lays the groundwork for an innovative digital resource for understanding the history of nineteenth-century Victoria. The digitisation of a 4.5 by 6 metre map of Victoria held by Public Record Office Victoria will fulfil several aims. It will make accessible a unique record of high research interest to historians and the general public. Furthermore, capturing digital images of the map will enable the creation of a online interactive map of Victoria, which will provide an entry point to other digital resources that can represent the complex and contested history of the settlement and development of colonial Victoria.

A pamphlet history is being prepared to facilitate access to historical records relating to Tally Ho, to help former residents of Tally Ho put their memories of their time in institutional care into historical context (addressing recommendations of the Forgotten Australians report), and to provide information to former residents and their families about what personal records might be extant and how to access these records.

This project investigates the relationship between the forest and the township of Maryborough and surrounds. At the same time that the oral history project will be investigating various community understandings of the forest it will also record the stories, while the opportunity remains, of the people of the region involved in forest related activities.

Andrew Brown-May & Shurlee Swain (eds), The  Encyclopedia of Melbourne — includes approximately 2000 A-Z entries, was published in October 2005 by Cambridge University Press. The single 700,000-word volume, with over 400 contributors, covers all aspects of Melbourne: past and present, government and business, geography, history, architecture, culture and sport. Coverage includes the 31 municipalities of the greater Melbourne metropolitan region