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VICTORIAN COMMUNITY HISTORY AWARDS 2021 OPEN
RHSV & PROV announce that entry is open for the 2021 VCHACan we improve on the near-record number of entries in 2020? Did lock-down produce a slew of history projects? If you have a history project that will come to fruition between 1st of July 2020 and 30th of June 2021 you should enter in the 2021 VCHA. The awards cover not just publications, but exhibitions, podcasts, cataloguing or digitisation projects, journal articles, community diversity projects, oral history, theatre projects - any manner of production which celebrates and promotes the history of Victoria.
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What's on at the RHSV
Cataloguing Clinic via Zoom with Jillian Hiscock
June 24 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pmJillian Hiscock, the RHSV Collections Manager, started these cataloguing clinics during the early days of COVID and they suit Zoom...
Twentieth Century Science, Technology and Engineering
June 24 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pmTwentieth Century Science, Technology and Engineering Presented by Laureate Professor R. J. EVANS Engineering Heritage Victoria an...
History of the Spencer Street Bridge
July 8 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pmHistory of the Spencer Street Bridge Have you ever noticed the Spencer Street Bridge? Arguably nondescript, this dependable 1930 s...
PODCASTING 2 DAY MASTERCLASS
July 31PODCASTING 2 DAY MASTERCLASS 3CR Community Radio will be running a 2 day masterclass in how to make podcasts for our RHSV members....
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.
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.
Upcoming Victorian History Events
Up the (Gardiners) Creek: a brief history of Kooyong Koot
June 20 @ 2:15 pm - 4:00 pmDr Gary Presland, FRHSV, and President of the Society, has done a particular study of the natural history of the Melbourne area. H...
Ferries of Melbourne: Past, Present, Future – Good, Better, Best?
June 23 @ 5:00 pm - 7:30 pmMelbourne’s ferries have delivered significant social and economic benefit to our community in the past. Today ferries remain a ...
LA TROBE’S UNIFORM
June 23 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pmLA TROBE’S UNIFORM ‘Extravagance, Tradition and Power’ : Charles La Trobe’s Uniform Guest Speaker: Megan Anderson (2019 La...
Featured Books
Jigsaw Puzzle – 1000 Pieces
Vera Deakin and the Red Cross by Carole Woods
The Ghosts Have Never Left – Victorian Gold Rush Towns and the Stories They Could Tell by John & Marie Watt
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