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Spotlight
VICTORIAN COMMUNITY HISTORY AWARD WINNERS
As part of History Month, PROV & RHSV announces VCHA winnersOn 28 October, Catherine Andrews announced the winner of the Victorian Premier's History Award and the winners of 9 other categories were also announced.

What's on at the RHSV
Launch of exhibition: Tales from the MacRobertson International Air Races
March 11 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmIn October 1934 a great air-race was planned from London to Flemington, Melbourne. From a field of 20 planes just 12 arrived. The ...
Vera Deakin in War and Peace
March 16 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pmThe daughter of Prime Minister Alfred Deakin, Vera Deakin studied music in the Habsburg Empire on the eve of the Great War. Driven...
Launch of the Jessie Webb Society
March 24 @ 10:30 am - 12:00 pmIn 1909 Jessie Stobo Watson Webb was not only an original Historical Society of Victoria member (membership No. 30) and the first ...
Cataloguing Clinics 2021
March 25 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm|Recurring Event (See all)An event every month that begins at 11:00 am on day Fourth of the month, repeating until December 31, 2021
Jillian Hiscock, the RHSV Collections Manager, started these cataloguing clinics during the early days of COVID and they suit Zoom...

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
Discover Your Military Ancestors
March 10 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pmWant to learn more about your family’s military history? Discover the huge range of military records you can search online, ...
Pre-European Indigenous Culture in the Kew Area – 2021 McIntyre Lecture
March 10 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm2021 MCINTYRE LECTURE Gary Presland is an archaeologist and historian, with long-standing research interests in the pre-contact In...
BRAZEN HUSSIES: Film Screening and Q&A
March 11 @ 5:30 pm - 7:45 pmBRAZEN HUSSIES reveals a revolutionary chapter in Australian history, the Women’s Liberation Movement (1965 -1975). Interwea...
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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