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HOLSWORTH GRANTS CLOSE 31 JULY

The Holsworth Local Heritage Grants are to assist rural organisations publish books on history. Grants of up to $2,000 are...

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2pm Friday 19 July is your deadline to enter your history production into the Victorian Community History Awards. These awards...

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Congratulations to Dr Andrew Lemon AM FRHSV Andrew Lemon has been honoured, becoming a Member of the Order of Australia...

City of Yarra facilitate façadism in historic strip shopping streets

On 29 May the Heritage Committee of the RHSV made a major submission to the Heritage Council of Victoria regarding...

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Victorian Premier’s History Award

2018 Victorian Community History Awards

The arresting title sets the tone for this compelling book. In the 19th century, Victoria had the highest rate of insanity in Australia, not surprising given the turmoil of the gold rush.

The Blackburns. Private Lives, Public Ambition. A lecture by Caroline Rasmussen
July 16 @ 5:15 pm - 7:00 pm
When socialist barrister and aspiring member of parliament Maurice Blackburn met Doris Hordern, ardent feminist and campaign secre...
Victoria’s Earliest Potteries
July 19 @ 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
We are delighted that Gregory Hill, a leading authority on both Australian Colonial Pottery and Australian Art Pottery, will be de...
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW: Cataloguing and digitisation workshop series.
July 26 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
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One event on July 26, 2019 at 1:00pm
One event on September 6, 2019 at 1:00pm
One event on October 4, 2019 at 1:00pm
One event on November 1, 2019 at 1:00pm
One event on November 22, 2019 at 1:00pm
One event on December 13, 2019 at 1:00pm
A series of 6 graded workshops covering all you need to know on cataloguing and digitisation. Spaced over 6 months to give partici...
Workshop: Making Archival Boxes
August 7 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
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One event on September 11, 2019 at 11:00am
Wed 7 August 11am – 1pm Wed 11 September 11am – 1pm David Thompson is holding two ...

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In 1956, an Olympic year, the world was beset with Cold War anxieties. Tensions between East and West had been heightened less than a month before the Games when the USSR invaded Hungary to crush an uprising. Then Israeli, French and British armies invaded and occupied Egypt’s Sinai and Suez Canal Zone. Would the Melbourne Olympic Games be remembered as the “friendly” Games, a sea of tranquillity in a stormy world, or would they become a victim of the Cold War? Would our moment in the sun be blown away by revolutions and wars raging over 15,000 kilometres away?

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Growing up in Burwood and Box Hill.
July 21 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Our speaker is internationally known architect Karl Fender OAM. Founding Partner of multiple award winning Fender Katsalidis Archi...
Alphonsus Vincent (Phonse) Tobin – Irish (and North Melbourne) to his core.
July 23 @ 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Talk by Des Tobin – ‘A. V. (Phonse) Tobin – Irish (and North Melbourne) to his core. Alphonsus Vincent Tobin (1905–1993), ...
Photographic Display and Research Day
July 27 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
As part of Open House weekend, we will host a photographic display of Box Hill houses, showcasing many of the homes that no longer...