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VICTORIAN COMMUNITY HISTORY AWARDS 2021 WINNERS

The headline event for History Month

We congratulate all the entrants, all the shortlisted and all the winners in the 2021 VCHA but we especially congratulate Alec Morgan, Tiriki Onus and Tom Zubrycki for their film Ablaze which won the Premier's History Award

Check out the VCHA 2021 winners here

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TALES FROM THE MACROBERTSON AIR RACES

Opens Thu 11 March 2021 - From 11 March to late September 2021

Curated by Noel Jackling, David Thompson and John McCulloch. To celebrate Victoria’s centenary in 1934, Macpherson Robertson sponsored a great air race from England to Melbourne. There were originally 20 entrants of which only 12 arrived in Melbourne. The British winning entrants took a whisker under 3 days, the last plane to arrive took some 4 months. This RHSV exhibition takes a close look at the entrants in the races (there were two races run concurrently – a speed race and a handicap race) including the Dutch entrant, the Uiver.

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Clan Winter-Irving Gathering
October 15 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Clan Winter-Irving Gathering Note! Due to current outbreak of COVID + border closures, event has been rescheduled for 2022 ...