Digital archive for historical societies
A searchable online home for the stories, photographs and records your society already holds.
Photographs in drawers, stories only the older generation still remember. A digital archive turns all of that into a living, searchable record — stories, photographs, records and graves — with community submissions the society approves before anything is published.
Preparing a 2027 Community Heritage Grant application?
Read the key dates and use the free readiness check before the expression-of-interest deadline.
- Expressions of interest run from 18 September to 16 October 2026.
- Stage one is an outline of the project only — no quotes are needed at that point.
- A digital archive usually sits under the theme Digital Heritage, Access and Storytelling.
- Your society is the applicant. We supply the description and detail of the digital work.
What it can include
- Community submissions
- Context behind each photograph — who's in it, where, when, who supplied it
- Oral-history and video archive
- Society review and approval before publishing
- Structured so a family name, townland, school or workhouse is findable worldwide
- Admin dashboard
- Newsletter
- Campaign and petition pages
- Applications, member records, meeting info and published minutes in one place
Open the live example
Abbeyleix & District Historical Society
A community archive for a Laois historical society — local stories, event listings, artefact galleries and membership sign-up, with everything reviewed by the society before it goes live.
Someone in Boston or Sydney can search a family name or a townland and find the people they came from, without ever ringing the society.