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OCTOBER IS HISTORY MONTH
Is your organisation holding a history event In Oct '21?Register your event and become a part of the official History Month celebrations. Need inspiration on digital events? Or curious about ways the RHSV can help with speakers or equipment? We will include your event in the 2021 History Month calendar, provide you with a copy of the History Month logo and we’ll promote History Month across Victoria and in your local community.
Add your event to the History Month website here
What's on at the RHSV
THE BRILLIANT BOY Gideon Haigh talks about Doc Evatt
September 29 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pmTHE BRILLIANT BOY Gideon Haigh talks about Doc Evatt We are thrilled that Gideon Haigh will talk about his latest book, The Bril...
EMERGING HISTORIANS
October 12 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pmEMERGING HISTORIANS Join us for an evening of new ideas and interesting discussion to celebrate History Month in Victoria. “Emer...
The 1789 Smallpox Plague – exhuming the buried truth
October 13 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pmIn April 1789 a smallpox plague suddenly broke out at Sydney Cove. It swept around the entire continent and killed up to 70% of th...
PIONEER REGISTER SEMINAR
October 14 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pmIn partnership with the Genealogical Society of Victoria, the RHSV is holding a free Zoom seminar on one of the jewels in its crow...
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
Create a video using oral history recordings and images (online workshop)
October 7 @ 10:30 am - 1:30 pmHave you ever wanted to make a video from oral history interviews? Are your oral history recordings sitting in an archive, not bei...
2021 DICKINSON LECTURE
October 13 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm2021 DICKINSON LECTURE RECENT ACQUISITIONS FOR THE DECORATIVE ARTS DEPARTMENT AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA Amanda Du...
Transcribing oral history workshop (online)
October 28 @ 10:30 am - 1:30 pmHave you completed some oral history interviews, but aren’t sure how to go about transcribing them? Do you have interviews i...
Featured Books
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
Maldon: a new history, 1853-1928. By Brian Rhule
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