All issues of Honi Soit from 1929–1990 are now available online, making the iconic, and infamous, part of student life at the University of Sydney publicly available.
The launch of Honi Soit Digital Archive is a culmination of a long-term project which started already in 2011 with the audit of the most complete set of Honi Soit anywhere in Australia housed at the University of Sydney Library. The often fragile issues of the newspaper were digitised in early 2016, resulting in more than 18,000 pages from 1530 issues, and over 1 TB of data. With the new website, the back issues of Honi Soit are now available as PDFs online for anyone to view and download, and there are plans to enable better search and greater functionality to this rich source of cultural and social history.
Funded by the Library, this digitisation project aims to preserve and sustain the archives of Honi Soit, and make them available to broader audiences. The Honi Soit Digital Archive was created as part of a broader digitisation program with the goal to unlock access to the significant and unique heritage assets that comprise our rare and special research collections at the University of Sydney Library.