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HERITAGE CALL TO ACTION
Save our heritage from intense development: write to the minister nowYes, let’s support more housing in places where people want to live. But places will become far less sought after if we forget what makes them desirable in the first place. If we destroy heritage to build housing, Melbourne will become ‘Hong Kong without the view’, a collection of soulless high-rise buildings. Heritage makes Melbourne marvellous and makes our regional towns and cities attractive as tourist beacons and signposts to our history. Heritage enhances a neighbourhood’s soul and character, and provides focal points and historical perspectives. We need housing and heritage, housing that preserves, respects and is integrated with heritage.

What's on at the RHSV
2025 Billibellary Indigenous History Lecture: Breaking Australian Rules in Sport and History
February 20 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pmWe are delighted to invite our members and friends to join us for the 4th annual Billibellary Indigenous History Lecture to be del...
AUTOMOTIVE HISTORIANS AUSTRALIA INC HONORS REG HUNT
February 22 @ 12:30 pm - 2:30 pmReg Hunt, motor dealer, racing driver, collector and property investor was one of Melbourne’s best known and successful automobi...
Curator’s talk: Yarra Birrarung Artists, Writers and the River exhibition
February 25 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pmJoin the curator, Dr Judith Buckrich, of our current exhibition Yarra Birrarung: Artists, Writers and the River in a behind-the-sc...
Feminists to felons: exhibiting women’s history
March 18 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pmEach year, to celebrate Women’s History Month, the RHSV offers our Women’s History lecture, part of our Distinguished ...

YARRA BIRRARUNG: ARTISTS, WRITERS AND THE RIVER
Curated by Dr Judith Buckrich. Designed by Daisy Searls. From 28 November 2024 to July 2025 - 28 November 2024 - July 2025
This exhibition is an illustrated history of life on the Yarra. Through the lens of artists and writers, the book explores how life has flourished on the river, including recreation, industry and land use, as well as infrastructure, natural history and social history.

Upcoming Victorian History Events
Pre-European Indigenous culture in the St Kilda area with Gary Presland
February 10 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pmThe St Kilda area is part of the traditional lands of the Yalukit willam clan. As part of the Kulin nation, the Yalukit willam wer...
Labassa Open Day
February 16 @ 10:30 am - 4:00 pmAlthough more than 700 people have lived at Labassa, it has miraculously survived with most of its opulent Victorian era decoratio...
Lithographers, Artists and Painters: a guided walking tour of St Kilda Cemetery
February 23 @ 1:45 pm - 3:30 pmThe next Friends of St Kilda Cemetery guided walking tour will be held on Sunday 23 February 2025 at 1.45pm for a 2.00pm start. Pl...
Featured Books
Yarra Birrarung: Artists, Writers and the River by Dr Judith Buckrich

St Kilda 1841-1900: Movers and Shakers and Money-Makers by Carmel McKenzie

Granville Stapylton: Australia Felix 1836, second in command to Major Mitchell. By Gregory C. Eccleston

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