Closed for Christmas & New Year
We are closed from Fri 21 Dec and will reopen on Mon 7 Jan 2019.
read more...Author: RHSV Team
City Circle Tourism Tram Script
Yarra Trams have requested the RHSV’s help to revitalise and rewrite the script for the City Circle tourism tram…
read more...Submission to the Heritage Council: Federation Square
The RHSV strongly supports the Executive Director’s recommendation for inclusion of Federation Square in the Victorian Heritage Register.
read more...RHSV gains a grant from the Foundation for Regional and Rural Renewal
The grant is to engage and train a Digital Co-ordinator to work with 4 historical societies which are all in areas affected by the 2009 bushfires…
read more...Corkman Hotel Developer/Demolishers Get their Way
The Corkman Hotel saga ends with a complete victory for the developers. But the seeds of that victory were in the contradiction between the heritage overlay that was supposed to protect it and the planning scheme which encouraged developers to put up a 40 metre tower on the site! Read the RHSV statement on this appalling saga here.
read more...Major Threat to Historic Shopping Strips
We face a major heritage threat from an unexpected quarter. The historic shopping strips of our inner and middle suburbs are largely protected by local heritage overlays, not by the state.
read more...Victory at the QVM People’s Panel: The Great Turnaround
Melbourne Sharpie Subculture Scene
Earlier in November we held a very successful event connected to our Putting It Out There: Melbourne in the 1970s exhibition. The event was titled “This is My City: Melbourne Sharpie Subculture Scene”.
Julie Mac, a former sharpie, gave a very entertaining lecture about the history of the sharpie culture in Melbourne.
Our photo show Julie Mac surrounded by some of those at the event – a mix of old sharpies and young people intrigued by the rebel culture that was distinctly Melbourne.
read more...Roving Curator Grant
The RHSV is excited to announce that we were successful recently in being awarded a Museums Australia (Victoria) Roving Curator Grant. This means that MAV curator, Kitty Owens, will work with our curator, Lenore Frost on our first exhibition in 2020 which will focus on the West Melbourne swamp. Lenore will be looking at the history of the swamp from pre-European times until the present day.
read more...New staff member Pankaj Sirwani
Our Administrator, Amy Clay, is leaving at Christmas to have her third baby – congratulations Amy.
We have been fortunate to recruit Pankaj Sirwani, to replace Amy whilst she is on parental leave. Pankaj came to Melbourne to complete his master’s degree in Accounting and Financial Management at La Trobe University. Before this he completed his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration at Pune in India. Pankaj will overlap with Amy for one week before Christmas and then he’ll fly solo from the 7th of January when we return from our Christmas break.
read more...Heritage Victoria Officer’s Report – Queen Victoria Market
The report is of interest to all concerned with the QVM and indeed to all concerned with heritage issues and the workings of Heritage Victoria. It reflects great credit on Heritage Victoria. We urge all RHSV members to read the report.
The Friends of Queen Victoria Market have obtained release of this report, which the City of Melbourne had kept under wraps.
read more...
239 A'Beckett Street Melbourne, Victoria, 3000 
03 9326 9288 
office@historyvictoria.org.au 
Office & Library: Weekdays 9am-5pm
