Author: Rosemary Cameron
Richard Broome on local ABC with Andrew Hansen
While you were still snoozing at 6:20am Richard Broome, our President, was busy chatting to Andrew Hansen (of Chaser fame) on local ABC radio about Melbourne’s Twenty Decades, our latest publication, and the website is close to meltdown with book orders. ABC listeners are quick on the draw!
If you’d like to listen to the interview:
https://www.abc.net.au/…/progr…/breakfast/breakfast/11848484 (the interview is about 4 mins 20 seconds into the podcast).
If you still haven’t bought your copy (and don’t be the only person in Melbourne without one) click on the link:
https://www.historyvictoria.org.au/…/melbournes-twenty-dec…/
JOIN THE RHSV TEAM
We are searching for a new Administrator to join our small team.
At the end of 2019 Amy who was on one year’s maternity leave resigned to continue to look after her three children at home and Pankaj, who had been filling in for Amy, returned home to India. So we are searching for a new permanent Administrator. Great book-keeping and admin skills are a must and this job is never dull. The full position description and details on how to apply can be found here.
read more...Fire Salvage
Follow this link to our resources website page on Disaster Management. There are links to excellent information and videos on how to salvage items from collections after a fire or flood. There are also case-studies and chronologies on how disaster responses unfold. We hope our affiliated societies never have to put this into action but good planning, good information and good examples are our friends in difficult times.
read more...Christmas hours
The RHSV (and History Victoria Bookshop) will be closed for 2 weeks over Christmas /New Year. Our last day is Friday 20 December and we return to work on Monday 6 January 2020.
Best wishes for Christmas and a splendid 2020 to all our members and friends.
read more...Not a night owl? Listen to 3AW podcast.
If you’re usually tucked up in bed early on a Sunday night & missed our president, Richard Broome, chewing the fat with the 3AW Sunday Night Team, here is a link to the podcast. (Scroll forward to 1:02:04 for Richard’s Interview).
Richard comes on around 1:02:04 & is chatting about our latest publication, Melbourne’s Twenty Decades.
Thanks to everyone who has popped in today to pick up their copies,
read more...Cheryl Griffin visits a Melbourne Christmas circa 1930
In the latest edition of CBD News Cheryl Griffin uses a 1930 image from the RHSV collection of Little Bourke Street and Myer to launch into a Christmas reverie.
read more...Heritage Committee speaks against Melb City Council plans
In a busy month for the RHSV Heritage Committee they have continued the campaign to save the cultural heritage of the Queen Victoria Market and, at a public meeting on 19 November, the committee chair, Charles Sowerwine, spoke out against City of Melbourne Council plans for the market. On the 1st of November a submission was made re Market Square and on 16 October a submission was made on the proposed discontinuance of part of Franklin Street and part of Queen Street,
read more...Launch speeches for Mallee Country and Melbourne’s Twenty Decades
Did you miss our two great launches? You can read the launch speeches here.
And you can buy the books here:
Mallee Country: Land, People, History
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RHSV Heritage Committee supports QVM permit application
The RHSV Heritage Committee supports Heritage Victoria in its permit application, P31886, re Queen Victoria Market.
To read about the RHSV submissions and work done prior to this submission on QVM click here.
read more...RHSV wins Community Heritage Grant
The RHSV has been awarded a $14,894 federal Community Heritage Grant to fund museum-standard shelving for our all-important manuscript collection. This is the third and final grant in a three-part process.
The grant was announced at the National Library of Australia in Canberra on October 30.
Grants worth almost $383,000 have been distributed this year to 61 community groups and organisations from around Australia to assist in the identification and preservation of community owned but nationally significant heritage collections.
read more...History Week now HISTORY MONTH
History Week became too big for its boots so, from 2020, the whole of October will become HISTORY MONTH. Start planning your activities now. The Awards Ceremony for the Victorian Community History Awards will continue to be the key event of History Month.
read more...Cheryl Griffin is ‘doing the block’
Cheryl Griffin has delivered another corker of a story to CBD News for their November edition. Cheryl looks closely at an RHSV image of Melbourne swells ‘doing the block’ in Collins Street.
read more...RHSV Slams Proposals to Sanitise QVM
Our submission to the Melbourne City Council opposes discontinuance of roads intended to provide space for new buildings that will radically alter the market’s traditional mode of operation.
Click to read the full submission
And to read the documentation that precedes this submission on QVM and other heritage campaigns click here.
read more...2019 HISTORY AWARDS WINNERS ANNOUNCED
The winners were announce on Mon 14 October 2019 at the Victorian Arts Centre
Click for the full list of winners
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