History Research/Project Websites
Australian Women's Archives Project
The National Foundation for Australian Women established the Australian Women’s Archives Project (AWAP) in 2000, to enhance public knowledge and appreciation of the contribution women and their organisations have made to Australia. To do this, the Project encourages Australian women and their organisations to preserve their records and to make them more accessible to academic, government and community-based researchers, to journalists, to school children as well as to the general enquirer.
Website: www.nfaw.org
Cultural Heritage Unit
The Cultural Heritage Unit is a specialist research and teaching unit within the History program at the University of Melbourne. It taps the pooled expertise of the School of Historical Studies in order to provide innovative and rigorously-applied historical research, postgraduate training, undergraduate teaching, and community education. The Unit provides an interface between history and related study areas, and also between the University of Melbourne, partner universities, government and private agencies, and the general community.
Website: www.history.unimelb.eu.au/chu
Encyclopedia of Melbourne
The print volume of the Encyclopedia of Melbourne, which includes approximately 2000 A-Z entries, is planned for publication by 2005 (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. The Encyclopedia of Melbourne is now being developed on-line and will be a sophisticated interactive way to explore Melbourne's past and present. Online development is being directed by Dr Andrew Brown-May in the History Department at the University of Melbourne. Funded by an Australian Research Council SPIRT grant, project partners include Melbourne Museum, Tourism Victoria, the City of Melbourne, the State Library of Victoria, the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, and the Victoria Public Record Office.
Website: www.emelbourne.net.au
MelGROSH
The Melbourne Gateway to Reseach on Soviet History
It is envisaged that MelGrosh will eventually combine several different suites of data bases. At the moment the first of these suites to be established is MelGrosh-Pol: a series of databases related to Soviet Politics of the Stalin period.
Website: www.history.unimelb.edu.au/MELGROSH/
Reason in Revolt
The Reason in Revolt project brings together primary source documents of Australian radicalism as a readily accessible digitised resource. The website is an expanding record of the movements, institutions, venues and publications through which radicals sought to influence Australian society.
Website: www.reasoninrevolt.net.au
The University of Melbourne Archives
The University of Melbourne Archives was established in 1960 and houses important historical records of the University, as well as major resources in areas such as architecture, manufacturing, trade unionism, theatre, mining, biography, education, the women's movement, pacifism and war.
Website: www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/collections/archives/