Great Australian online resources - old becomes new!

Posted August 4th 2006 @ 10:37 am by tango

Re-Member, is a biographical database containing summary biographical information about all Members of the Parliament of Victoria since 1851. It is based on information drawn from “A Biographical Register of the Victorian Legislature 1851-1900″ and “Biographical Register of the Victorian Parliament 1900-84″. Records for members elected since 1984 have been created from the information contained in Parliamentary Handbooks.

Australian Dictionary of Biography Online Edition is the Internet version of the ADB’s traditional print volumes. It is operated by the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB), Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. The website is a joint production of the ADB and the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, University of Melbourne (Austehc). The biographical articles published in the first online edition are those found in the printed ADB: Volumes 1 to 16 in the continuing series and the Supplementary Volume. The articles are concise, authoritative accounts of the lives of significant and representative persons in Australian history.

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