Family and community life

Unless we remember we cannot understand. E. M. Forster

Michael Reason Curator, History and Technology Department, Museums Victoria

Seamus O'Hanlon Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies, Monash University

Museums Victoria resources

The Biggest Family Album in Australia: access the museum’s database of over 9000 photographs dating from the 1870s to the 1950s.

Melbourne's Biggest Family Album: over 1000 favourite images of Melbourne from private album collections.

Families in Museums Victoria Collections: research families and family collections in Museums Victoria’s collections online to discover related images, objects, documents and more.

Other resources

BBC News: an example of rephotographs using Scotland’s ever changing scenery.

ancestry.com.au: search an ever-growing collection of records covering colonial Australia and beyond.

Culture Victoria: view digital stories of the land such as "My Love" by Maureen Barry.

Culture Victoria: view digital family stories.

Australian Heritage Council: "Our house: histories of Australian homes."

Australian Dress Register: a collaborative, online project about dress in New South Wales pre 1945.