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Introducing Claudia, our new Images Collection Officer

Welcome Claudia Donovan, the newest member of the RHSV team! She will be joining us mid-May to start her new...
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Congratulations 2024 Victorian Community History Award winners

Congratulations to everyone who took part in the 2024 Victorian Community History Awards! We extend our heartfelt thanks for your...
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Welcome Joanna and Oliver!

Our two newest staff members will be joining us next week. Oliver Sperlich, who will be filling a brand new...
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Have you ever thought you’d like to work in a bokshop?

The RHSV bookshop is getting more successful every year - in 2024 our sales increased by 50% on 2023 which...
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'Letters to a Critic' wins Premier’s History Awards

Australian art through the letters of leading critic Alan McCulloch

Described by judges as “an artwork in itself”, Letters to a Critic: Alan McCulloch’s World of Art by Rodney James took out the main prize at the Victorian Community History Awards for 2024. Author Rodney James has mined the rich archival treasure of the McCulloch Papers to create a lively combination of biography and illustrated book of letters. Witty, irreverent, profound and heartfelt, these previously unpublished letters, critical essays, illustrations and works of art provide a unique insight into the art and lives of Australia’s most famed art personalities as they simultaneously reveal McCulloch’s role as critic, gallery director and mentor.

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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.

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Yarra Birrarung: Artists, Writers and the River by Dr Judith Buckrich

Yarra Birrarung: Artists, Writers and the River is an illustrated history of life on the Yarra. Through the lens of artists and writers, the book explores how life has...
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St Kilda 1841-1900: Movers and Shakers and Money-Makers by Carmel McKenzie

The wealthiest suburb in nineteenth-century Melbourne, ‘Aristocratic St Kilda’ gloried in its reputation as a bastion of privilege and power. This captivating exposé ushers you into the exclusive cliques...
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Granville Stapylton: Australia Felix 1836, second in command to Major Mitchell. By Gregory C. Eccleston

Assistant Surveyor Granville Stapylton’s intimate journal, written while serving as Second-in-Command in Major Mitchell’s expedition in ‘Australia Felix’, in 1836, is here published as a faithful transcription from the...
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