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.
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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
read more...HISTORY WEEK SUN 13 – SUN 20 OCT
Do you have a yen to trace your family? A desire to understand just why your home town grew like it did? A craving to understand the development of your favourite sport or your alma mater?
“The study of the past and telling its stories are critical to our sense of belonging, to our communities and to our shared future.” Opening paragraph of The Value of History Statement,
read more...History Week: Get Involved!
Do you have a yen to trace your family? A desire to understand just why your home town grew like it did? A craving to understand the development of your favourite sport or your alma mater?
“The study of the past and telling its stories are critical to our sense of belonging, to our communities and to our shared future.”
Opening paragraph of The Value of History Statement, History Council of Victoria.
read more...BOOK FAIR RAISES OVER $6,000
The last bargain-hunters are sifting through the remnants of the Book Fair and tomorrow it will disappear so our wonderful Isaac Selby: Historian, Lecturer, Assassin! exhibition can be re-hung.
The Book Fair raised over $6,000 for the RHSV. I’d like to thank all those wonderful donors who gave us books throughout the year (the books were splendidly impressive this year). Without those donations we simply don’t have a Fair (and, as most of the books are sold at just $1,
read more...Traces of pioneers
In this month’s CBD News you can read Cheryl Griffin’s wonderful ode to the Old Melbourne Cemetery which was a rich repository of information about our earliest settlers. Now gone for ever under the car park of QVM. CBD News can be picked up all over the CBD or you can find it online.
read more...Victorian Premier’s History Award shortlist announced
Forty-two community history publications and projects from across Victoria have been shortlisted for the 2019 Victorian Community History Awards and Victorian Premier’s History Award.
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400 trees under threat
The feisty RHSV Heritage Committee has been active on many fronts recently with support for Buninyong & District Historical Society’s fight to save 400 trees including old-growth Manna gums and updates on the ongoing Queen Victoria Market campaign. You can read the submissions and more about the Heritage Committee’s work here.
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