- http://www.historyvictoia.org.au/podcast.htm/ en 2008, Royal Historical Society of Victoria The podcasting service of Royal Historical Society of Victoria Royal Historical Society of Victoria RHSV Podcasts provides audio files of lectures held at the Royal Historical Society of Victoria and other audio items on topics relating to the history of Victoria - Royal Historical Society of Victoria office@historyvictoria.org.au no - Andrew Lemon RHSV Lectures, February 2008 Andrew Lemon has spoken to the RHSV previously about the history of Australian horse racing but the horse world keeps changing and he has some new perspectives as he puts the finishing touches to his forthcoming book, The History of thoroughbred racing in our time, scheduled for publication for the spring of 2008. The book covers the social and political history of racing throughout Australia in the period 1939-2007. His talk concentrates on the turbulent recent history of the racing industry. Prof. Bill Russell introduces the talk. http://rhsv.teesee.net/Lemon_LectureFeb2008.mp3 29 May 2008 47:55 Australia, history, horseracing - Rosalie Triolo RHSV Lectures, April 2008 Compared with Australian national averages, Victoria's state school teachers enlisted earlier and in greater numbers, were more rapidly promotes, more highly decorated - and more likely to die. Based on recent doctoral research, Rosalie Triolo, explains the teachers' responses and experiences. The presentation includes stories from the battle front and home front that convey the tragedy of the Great War but have not since been told. http://rhsv.teesee.net/Triolo_LectureApril2008.mp3 29 May 2008 52:52 Australia, history, school teachers, First World War, - Alan Gregory RHSV Lectures, May 2008 George Langley was born in Port Melbourne in 1891. He studied to be a teacher and then, in 1914, enlisted in the AIF. His experiences in during the war and his life as a teacher at a number of schools in Victoria, including Melbourne High School, are described in this talk by Alan Gregory. http://rhsv.teesee.net/Gregory_Lecture_May_2008.mp3 29 May 2008 40:47 Australia, history, school teachers, First World War, George Langley, - John Murphy RHSV Lectures, May 2008 John Murphy discusses growing onions, especially in the Leongatha area, and the changes that have occurred in the onion industry since the 1940s. He also reminisces about working as a telegraphist during the Second World War. http://rhsv.teesee.net/John_Murphy_onions.mp3 29 May 2008 33:00 Australia, history, onions, Gippsland, telegraphists, Second World War, - Val Noone RHSV Lectures, June 2008 Drawing on primary and secondary sources, this lecture investigates the land policies of Charles Gavan Duffy in the perspective of the legacy of Charles La Trobe. In particular, the lecture focuses on policy changes and conflicts regarding squatters, selectors and the Indigenous people during the years 1858-9 and 1861-3 when Duffy was minister for lands. http://rhsv.teesee.net/Noone_LectureJune2008.mp3 5 June 2008 40:45 Australia, history, Charles Gavan Duffy, squatters, selectors, land acts, Aborigines, - Don Garden RHSV Lectures, Aug 2008 The El Nino droughts of 1864-1869. The 1864-1869 drought was one of the most damaging and severe in colonial history. The talk focuses on the effects of the droughts on the eastern colonies, particularly on the pastoral industry. RHSV and RSV Lecture. http://rhsv.teesee.net/DonGardenAug2008.mp3 8 August 2008 45:15 Australia, history, drought, El Nino, - Nick Dyrenfurth RHSV Lectures, Aug 2008 Focussing upon the work of well-known artists Phil May, Livingstone Hopkins, Montague Scott, Claude Marquet, Jim Case and, most prominently, the Victorian Will Dyson, this talk considers the transnational world of early Australian radical and labour cartoonists. Political cartooning constituted a vitally important element of the cultural politics of the early Australian labour movement. http://rhsv.teesee.net/cartoonsAugust2008.mp3 12 August 2008 27:21 Australia, history, cartooning, - Peter Burke RHSV Lectures, Aug 2008 An examination of the social history of workplace Australian football from the period in the early 1860s, when the game emerged as a distinct code, to the outbreak of the Second World War. http://rhsv.teesee.net/footballAugust2008.mp3 12 August 2008 30:01 Australia, history, sport, Australian rules football, football, - Celestina Sagazio RHSV Lectures, Aug 2008 Explore the history of the fascinating and unique Queen Victoria Market and the Old Melbourne Cemetery, originally located on the market site. http://rhsv.teesee.net/SagazioAug2008.mp3 3 September 2008 54:04 Australia, cemeteries, markets, Old Melbourne Cemetery, Queen Victoria Market, - Andrea Inglis RHSV Lectures, Sept 2008 Australia's colonial gentry found it fashionable to summer in the hills. Mountain resorts at Mount Macedon in Victoria, at Toowoomba in Queensland and in the Blue Mountains and Southern Highlands in New South Wales and the Adelaide Hills of South Australia offered a cooler climate, curative mountain air and exotic gardens. http://rhsv.teesee.net/InglisSept2008.mp3 19 September 2008 51:46 Australia, Colonial houses, Mount Macedon, Ferntree Gully, Toowoomba, - Weston Bate RHSV Lectures, Oct 2008 Australia's colonial gentry found it fashionable to summer in the hills. Mountain resorts at Mount Macedon in Victoria, at Toowoomba in Queensland and in the Blue Mountains and Southern Highlands in New South Wales and the Adelaide Hills of South Australia offered a cooler climate, curative mountain air and exotic gardens. http://rhsv.teesee.net/WestonOct2008.mp3 18 October 2008 48:12 Victoria, Goldmining, Pastoralists, Parliament, Ned Kelly, Sport,