History Research Project Websites
Melbourne Prints: Renaissance and Early Modern Print Culture
This website showcases a range of significant pre-1700 prints and rare books held in the Baillieu Library at the University of Melbourne. The aim of this site is to document and deepen knowledge of the content, material production and provenance of these cultural objects; to enable students from different disciplines to learn about methods and processes of their storage, conservation and display; to make this knowledge more accessible; to understand the material condition of these objects, as well as the nature of conservation, ongoing maintenance, storage and display; and to publicize the material to other students and scholars locally, nationally and internationally.
Website: melbourneprints.wordpress.com/
U.S. Marines in Wartime Melbourne 1943: Over-Paid, Over-Sexed and Over Here?
15,000 men of the First Marine Division, United States Marine Corps spent 9 months in Melbourne during 1943, recovering from the gruelling Guadalcanal campaign. They left a strong impression on the people of Melbourne, and many enduring friendships were formed. Aimed at students and researchers, the website examines this unique episode of Australian-US relations during World War II, drawing on original research and with resources including oral histories, letters, memoirs, press reports and visual materials. It complements the historical exhibition at the City Gallery, City of Melbourne from February 2010, curated by Professor Kate Darian-Smith and Rachel Jenzen.
Website: www.history.unimelb.edu.au/overhere/
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.womenaustralia.info/
Cultural History of Economies Research Hub (CHERHub)
The Cultural History of Economies Research Hub is a research initiative of Antonia Finnane, Catherine Kovesi and Gideon Reuveni, all at the University of Melbourne. It provides a meeting point for an interdisciplinary group of scholars who are engaged in, and seeking to orientate and develop, a cultural approach to the study of economies. The working premise for this approach is that the economy is a culturally charged arena and that the coherence of the economy and its ability to function depends on the aptitude of people to interact, to allocate values and norms, and also on their willingness to share representations of these values and norms.
Website: www.history.unimelb.edu.au/cherhub/
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 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.melgrosh.unimelb.edu.au/
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/