Research the history of activism, protests, rallies and campaigners in Victoria using pamphlets, posters, badges, images, articles, interviews and books.
Note: Much of this content has been reproduced from our Misinformation research guide.
Website content is often changing and sometimes quite ephemeral in nature. Theses web archiving tools show what a website looked like at a particular point in time - and tracks it across points in time. This is also useful if a link is 'dead' and website no longer exists
Since 1998 SLV has been collecting online content such as websites, blogs and media. These vary from one-off standalone to scheduled titles gathered over time, presented as closely as possible to how they were originally. While SLV focus is primarily Victorian, as a partner in the National Library of Australia's PANDORA Archive, we offer access to material nationwide for all users.
The Library also collects the web and offers a large range of online responses to public issues and events. From community protests like Residents Against McDonalds, to the Melbourne Freedom movement that emerged during the Pandemic, and more, the Library’ s collection of dissent and protest material stretches back to the 1990s and is ongoing
Many titles are offered as part of curated collections, including election campaigns. Collections involving nationwide collaboration are frequent with the most significant of recent years being Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic and Australia, 2020-2022, a multi-level record of life during the pandemic in Australia which features a significant contribution from State Library Victoria.
The Library curates a selection of archived Victorian websites which are searchable through our catalogue. Use the keyword 'pandora' as part of your search to find web archived content. You can also use the filters to the right of the page to select 'web resources' as a Resource Type or 'PANDORA electronic collection' as a series.
Eg.
The National Library of Australia (through it's Trove platform) has an archive of Australian website snapshots organised into themed sub collections. The Australian web archive pulls together records archived in PANDORA, Commonwealth government websites archived multiple times a year (previously known as: The Australian Government web archive) and the Australian Domain Harvest collection ('.au' content harvested annually)
Curated snapshots can be browsed across a wide range of topics such as Government & Law, Health. Politics and People & Culture.
The National library of Australia web archive
Website snapshots organised into sub collections. Includes a variety of government and commercial websites, and a number of social media sources.
website snapshots for the 2023 Voice to Parliament Referendum
Juice Media videos (language warning):
Established by the National Library of Australia, the Pandora web archive is a collaboration between a number of cultural institutions. It can be searched by keyword or by website URL. Most have multiple snapshots that show how different websites have changed over time.
The protest sub-collection from the Coronavirus collection
The Internet Archive, a non-profit library of millions of free texts, movies, software, music, and websites, hosts the Wayback Machine, which contains archived snapshots of millions of websites from around the world.
