Recent News

Queens Bridge over troubled water and the Red Cross to the rescue

Cheryl Griffin's latest article for CBD News gives the low-down on the Red Cross in the CBD during WWII and...

New COVID rules for venues from 6pm, 26th March 2021

The RHSV has just received the email below from Andrew Abbot, Chief Executive of Creative Victoria, with updates to the...

St Vincent Hospital’s new building threatens integrity of UNESCO World-Heritage listed Carlton Gardens and Royal Exhibition Building.

Charles Sowerwine, Chair of the RHSV Heritage Committee, has been busy over the holidays defending the integrity of the UNESCO...

Some Christmas reading …

Some stories to tickle your fancy between visits to the family over Christmas Ashley Smith's latest article in Dockland News...

Spotlight

VICTORIAN COMMUNITY HISTORY AWARDS 2021 OPEN

RHSV & PROV announce that entry is open for the 2021 VCHA

Can 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.

Enter on-line now!

What's on at the RHSV

Early Melbourne Suburbs joint GSV & RHSV seminar by Zoom
May 25 @ 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Essendon and Malvern and the Development of Melbourne’s Tram System The GSV and RHSV are jointly conducting a seminar exploring ...

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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.

Upcoming Victorian History Events

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Finding Families
April 20 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Hobsons Bay Libraries’ experienced heritage staff will demonstrate how to search for your ancestors across a variety of onli...
“Never Forget Australia”; Transformation at Villers-Bretonneux – a presentation via zoom by Dr Ross McMullin
April 27 @ 6:45 am - 8:00 pm
“Never Forget Australia”; Transformation at Villers-Bretonneux – a presentation via zoom by Dr Ross McMullin The...
Finding Families
April 28 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Hobsons Bay Libraries’ experienced heritage staff will demonstrate how to search for your ancestors across a variety of onli...