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A winter’s tale and a sailors’ home
We most strongly protest the misguided government policy and demand the penalty on studying the Humanities is removed
What to do with our statues and monuments?
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Spotlight
Melbourne's Twenty Decades
Great gift or addition to your libraryWith a stellar line-up of contributors and packed with evocative photos of Melbourne, our latest publication, Melbourne's Twenty Decades, takes us on a journey from pre-European times into Melbourne’s bright future.
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What's on at the RHSV
RHSV AGM: resumption following an adjournment
July 14 @ 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm
ZOOM BOOKCLUB: Brenda Niall’s Friends and Rivals: Four Great Australian Writers: Barbara Baynton, Ethel Turner, Nettie Palmer, Henry Handel Richardson
July 14 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pmJoin respected biographer, Brenda Niall, in talking about four Australian women writing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth...
CATALOGUING CLINIC
July 16 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pmCalling all historical societies across Victoria. We are launching a new initiative – a Cataloguing Clinic conducted through...
Acknowledgement
- Detail from painting by William Barak, RHSV Collection
We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which the Royal Historical Society of Victoria currently stands, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation, their Elders past and present, and those young people destined to become leaders.
STAY @ HOME FESTIVAL
JOIN US - FOR THE DURATION OF COVID19
The Stay @ Home Festival is a collection of activities for you and your family to engage in whilst we are all socially isolated. (click on the image)
Upcoming Victorian History Events
Public Monuments – Contested Histories
July 14 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pmSocieties have always used statues and other monuments as ways of both recognising and contesting power and eminence. In Australia...
Ross McMullin – ‘Turning Disaster into Victory: The Battle of Polygon Wood’
September 22 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pmThe battle of Polygon Wood in September 1917 is one of the AIF’s most iconic but least understood victories. It has usually been...
Clan Winter-Irving Gathering
October 17 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pmThis inaugural 1 day event (17/10/2020) will provide an opportunity for descendants of the Winter’s, Winter-Irving’s and the I...
Featured Books
Waltzing Matilda Australia’s Accidental Anthem. A Forensic History by W. Benjamin Lindner.
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